Social Media: Integration is next

So Facebook gets Friendfeed.  A big social media sites get what is essentially a social media aggregator, ensuring of course they have more social media aggregation.

At this rate there are an insane amount of social media sites out there (just take alook at a few of them at http://knowem.com/).  There are many more sites that aggregate some of their information in feeds, gizmos, etc.

To lay it out blatantly, social media aggregation and integration is going to be the new norm.  Social media became a norm, and it also became so incredibly widespread it's hard to track which service you're using.

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Games: More like movies?

In a recent episode of X-Play, a gentleman from www.giantbomb.com was commenting on why games are tough to make – unlike movies, you often have to re-invent at least part of your technology from the start.  If you've worked in games (or programming) you know that's not strictly true – there are many development tools – but game development certainly requires a lot of work and a lot of invention if not re-invention.

As I noted that's not strictly true that gaming requires re-invention of technology.  It's less true over time, and I think that can signal a shift in gaming.

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