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By: Melinda

Melinda — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:28:48 +0000

This is one of the reasons I’m working in ecommerce at a games company. The intersection of ecommerce and gaming is totally fun–the UI exchanges here are quite educational as game designers think very differently about UI than our web UI folks do. Adam I think you might even have been the person who turned me on to this idea way back in the day at eBay. Susan Wu is definitely well versed on this subject–I saw a talk she gave recently, and it really opened my eyes to some of these possibilities.

In the casual games space the “casual MMOG” is really the child of all this thought. Have a look at “family feud online party” from my company: http://www.iwin.com. Let me know what you think. (sorry for shameless plug but I do think it’s right on point).

By: Eric Cheng

Eric Cheng — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:34:49 +0000

I took a class on online communites from Amy Jo Kim. We got on the phone with Lord Blackthorn in Ultima Online, rode around on horseback, and called down lightning.

And then, in the hallways of the Gates building at some gathering, she told Ed Feigenbaum that knowledge-based AI was full of shit (I can’t remember the exact words she used, but it was something like that).

It was awesome.