Beautiful visualization and explanation of the credit crisis and another example that shows how much you can enrich storytelling with simple visuals and animations.

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Looks pretty wacky right now but I think this can be possible quite soon. The first solutions for shopping advices already exist and it doesn’t take a lot to transfer into other areas and connect it with social networks.

via: Mirror Image

It started with Wikitude, Enkin and Mini and now also more and more games using augmented reality are popping up on all 3 major platforms: iPhone OS, Android and Symbian. Even if the graphics are still crappy and the game-play doesn’t feel good, it’s another small step to understand what’s possible nowadays.

Tower defense

MScape Game Demo: Roku’s Reward

HP already gives us a hint how the future of mobile gaming will look like. Seems pretty progress but we will get used to it very soon.

I’m curious when the first augmented reality application that connects QR codes and social networking profiles pops up? Can only be a matter of days.

Last month the Wikitude project released the second trailer clip explaining augmented reality and the progress of Wikitude.

Wikitude Part 2

Wikitude Part 1

Some days ago ING realeased their augmented reality software to locate ATMs.

ING – ATM (in dutch)

Can’t wait till we see more applications that mash up video, GPS data and knowledge from the cloud. We are just at the beginning. Imaging what’s possible when we stop using old thinking models in combination with new technology and finally understand what we can do with the technology that we have in our hands.

Steve Jobs is always a source of inspiration. Right now social networks and especially Twitter are not the most remarkable tools we came up with but extremely useful.

Scott Hemphill and Kal Raustiala talk with James Surowiecki about the effect pirated goods have on the fashion industry. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference.

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I’m still not 100% convinced that totally opening up is the right way. It’s hard to imagine a world without brand and pattern copyrights. This would radically change the way of doing business and especially in the advertising industry. But I think this might be the way to go. Get rid of entry barriers and copyrights and let the market/consumers decide what’s the best product? Let’s see what happens but the software industry comes closer and closer to that model and Facebook or YouTube live pretty well without advertising.