October 5, 2008 25 Comments

Pixelated – The Online Conference About PLAY

Riffing off the Mitch Joel post, who got his idea from Bryan Eisenberg’s OnClick. I decided to make my virtual Pixelated conference about Play and Games.

Without further ado, Pixelated: Play

Here’s Austin Hill from Akoha presenting at TechCrunch50:

Here’s a quick snip from the gang at Area|Code regarding one of their games:

Watch Jane McGonigal talk about alternate reality games:

Will Wright talks about games that makes worlds (Spore):

Sugata Mitra on how kids teach themselves (replace “kids” with people learning in unique ways):

Anuzis explains The Prisoner’s Dilemma:

Jeff Minter: Llamasoft and the Space Giraffe:

What makes this idea cool is that anyone can mash anything into a theme and build a conference of ideas around it. Not the same as a face-to-face event, but this took me about 40 minutes of searching to find hours of great information that I could curate into my own project. Know who’s believed in this forever? Steve Rosenbaum at Magnify. He pioneered the idea of video curation as a creative effort a few years back, and is still going strong.

What’s YOUR Pixelated conference going to be about?

Related posts:

  1. Announcing the Pixelated Blog Conference Series
  2. Make Your Own Conference Dashboard
  3. Play Your Own Music
  4. The Community Play
  5. Play it Forward with Akoha

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  • http://www.annhandley.com Ann Handley

    I absolutely love this concept. I’m sure you or Mitch or somebody has thought of it, but there should be a central catalog/archive of all of these great Pixelated events.

    (Thinking now about what to create one on.. hmm….)

  • http://www.annhandley.com Ann Handley

    I absolutely love this concept. I’m sure you or Mitch or somebody has thought of it, but there should be a central catalog/archive of all of these great Pixelated events.

    (Thinking now about what to create one on.. hmm….)

  • http://jpickett1968.wordpress.com Jeff Pickett

    Chris – Loved the idea yesterday and got around to putting mine together in honor of you, Mitch and OnClick’s idea. I hope to see many others put these together. Check mine out at http://jpickett1968.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/pixelated-conference-creativity-inspiration-productivity-and-success/

  • http://jpickett1968.wordpress.com Jeff Pickett

    Chris – Loved the idea yesterday and got around to putting mine together in honor of you, Mitch and OnClick’s idea. I hope to see many others put these together. Check mine out at http://jpickett1968.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/pixelated-conference-creativity-inspiration-productivity-and-success/

  • http://www.twitter.com/JohnCannon John Michael Cannon

    This idea is flippin’ OUTSTANDING! I’m not blogging for a little while,so I can get my ideas together and get use to all the other cool web 2.0 tools…taking things slow. I’m into squidoo.com, so maybe I can do something like this with a lens? I don’t know but I’ll look into it. If not, I’ll work something out. This is a wonderful idea! You Rock!

    ~ John Michael Cannon

  • http://www.twitter.com/JohnCannon John Michael Cannon

    This idea is flippin’ OUTSTANDING! I’m not blogging for a little while,so I can get my ideas together and get use to all the other cool web 2.0 tools…taking things slow. I’m into squidoo.com, so maybe I can do something like this with a lens? I don’t know but I’ll look into it. If not, I’ll work something out. This is a wonderful idea! You Rock!

    ~ John Michael Cannon

  • http://www.ldpodcast.com Whtiney

    Pixelated Podcamp is up!

    http://www.whitneyhoffman.com/?p=358

  • http://www.ldpodcast.com Whtiney

    Pixelated Podcamp is up!

    http://www.whitneyhoffman.com/?p=358

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  • http://playspacefinder.kaboom.org Annie Lynsen

    Yeah for play! Great idea and great theme!

  • http://playspacefinder.kaboom.org Annie Lynsen

    Yeah for play! Great idea and great theme!

  • http://nmbaker.wordpress.com Natasha Baker

    Chris,

    Thanks, Thanks, Thanks for the great idea! I used the Pixelated Conference idea and turned into a “online course” called Introduction to Web 3.0: A free online course. In the past two days ince I starting posting the I have seen my blog stats increase by 50 percent. I think I will periodically offer online courses on a variety of new and emerging topics of interest. Chekc out my bolg at nmbaker.wordpress.com.

    Natasha

  • http://nmbaker.wordpress.com Natasha Baker

    Chris,

    Thanks, Thanks, Thanks for the great idea! I used the Pixelated Conference idea and turned into a “online course” called Introduction to Web 3.0: A free online course. In the past two days ince I starting posting the I have seen my blog stats increase by 50 percent. I think I will periodically offer online courses on a variety of new and emerging topics of interest. Chekc out my bolg at nmbaker.wordpress.com.

    Natasha

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  • http://jpickett1968.wordpress.com Jeff P

    I provided hyperlinks on my site to all the Pixelated Conferences I could find that have been submitted thus far – hoping to keep this idea alive and well!

  • http://jpickett1968.wordpress.com Jeff P

    I provided hyperlinks on my site to all the Pixelated Conferences I could find that have been submitted thus far – hoping to keep this idea alive and well!

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  • http://maximumcustomerexperience.com Kelly

    Chris,

    Neat conference, on a subject I might not normally dig into. I loved The Prisoner’s Dilemma. I kept thinking about how that could be used in real life situations. Still turning it over in my head. Thanks for putting yours up!

    Regards,

    Kelly

  • http://maximumcustomerexperience.com Kelly

    Chris,

    Neat conference, on a subject I might not normally dig into. I loved The Prisoner’s Dilemma. I kept thinking about how that could be used in real life situations. Still turning it over in my head. Thanks for putting yours up!

    Regards,

    Kelly

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  • http://www.sheeparcade.com Free Games

    Yes this idea is cool! I like this concept! Very creative …

  • giminicologu

    Online conferences are more and more common these days , especially with the economic recession , more and more people are looking for ways to reduce expenses , and VoIP Systems and conferences in the net are great ways to do just that

  • giminicologu

    Online conferences are more and more common these days , especially with the economic recession , more and more people are looking for ways to reduce expenses , and VoIP Systems and conferences in the net are great ways to do just that

  • overture23

    Thanks for the fascinating conference call trial video demonstration. Akoha is a great idea but I think some of its features are perhaps unnecessary. A lot of people will want to play games like this but it certainly won’t make much impact on people who are used to playing grand theft auto games and I think they are the people who need to be reached the most.