Cosplay TV

Filipino cosplayers strut their stuff on TV talk show Breakfast today. Watch the video here.

Getting a Clue

Props to the Direct Marketing Association of the Philippines for getting a clue at their conference today. As promised, here's my presentation, and books I liberally steal ideas from:

Getting a Clue: Surviving in Networked Markets
My blatant ripoff of a presentation.



The Cluetrain Manifesto
Guys, if you read nothing else in this post, read this. It'll blow your mind.


To Blog or Not to Blog: How Businesses Can Get Closer to Their Markets through Blogging
A sober-minded, easy-to-follow guide.


Who's There? Seth Godin's Incomplete Guide to Blogs and the New Web
A guide for those with more irreverent, adventurous tastes.

Shout out to Steve Rubel for pointing out poisonous Trout.

FOSS advocates, please don't bash me for putting Bill "G-Money" Gates in the presentation. Say what we like about the man, he gets blogging.

Many technologies enable networked markets -- wikis, discussion groups, message boards, viral video, blogs, RSS, podcasts. This presentation focuses on the last three, the hottest ones at the moment.

The success of General Motors' blogs came up during the discussion; you can check 'em out at GMblogs.com

Someone asked how many comments posts get. It depends on the post's intentions, fame, virality, content, and audience. Seth Godin doesn't even allow any, counting remote comments in his trackbacks instead.

Michelle Agnew, on the other hand, offered to facilitate a charity donation of one dollar for every comment on her post regarding the recent tsunami disaster. Comments had to be posted within twenty-four hours of her original post to count towards the donation.

Her readers delurked, and she got five hundred.

Mojo Master

Axe gets globalized gamevertising. They've ripped a page from the book of Japanese game design to create a free 3D dating simulation, Mojo Master.



Amazingly enough, it doesn't suck. Even the music is pretty good. Scriptwriting's wittier and more casual (albeit more repetitive) than in often-outlandish Japanese dating sims. Clipping could use some serious work, though: girls mysteriously walking through bars and walls look like they're in a role-reversed sequel to Ghost. I know women have their wiles, but I don't think noclip mode is one of them.

Nevertheless, Mojo Master holds real promise as a free ren'ai game with high production values supported entirely by gamevertising. I look forward to the multiplayer version this fall.

Oh, and if you're gonna play the game, here's a tip: match them physically, oppose them mentally. ;)

The Gorgeous Art of War

Starting today, 1Up is running a weeklong feature on Team Ninja, developers of the world's most technologically advanced fighting game series, Dead or Alive.

Bill Gates was wise to get the girls of Dead or Alive all to himself for the XBox and the upcoming XBox 360˚.


I'll have Kasumi yet, Bill.

Trackback

HaloScan now offers trackback -- a feature Blogger currently lacks. I've migrated this blog's comments and trackbacks over there.

Unfortunately, that also means all old comments were left in Blogger's system. My apologies to all the readers who took time to offer thoughtful feedback. Rest assured that, with trackbacks enabled, Information Narcosis now offers you more linkage value in every post.

Bill Eats Palm

I'm a big fan of the PalmOS's legendary stability -- I actually have to put in extra effort to crash my Palm -- but I have to rely on its limited connectivity with Microsoft products.

Let's hope the former is not sacrificed too much for the latter, as Palm announces its first Windows-based device.

Murdoch, King of Ascalon?

Gaming exec Bill Bishop cites "strong rumors" that Rupert Murdoch's media giant News Corp is in talks to buy Korean online game company NCSoft.

Bishop observes that News Corp clearly likes gaming, as they just bought gaming news site IGN for $650 million last fortnight.