Brooklyn"s Streets Become Digital Playground

Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) September 15, 2006

Inspired by New York and birthed in Birmingham, the game of Urban Reversi returns to its roots in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood at Noon on Saturday, Sep. 16. Tomorrow, the city’s streets will be transformed into a large-scale urban game like those previously staged in other major cities worldwide. A team of young professionals will descend upon New York City for the weekend, flying in from Birmingham, Ala. to stage the game of “Urban Reversi” at the 2006 Conflux Festival.

Urban Reversi is a location-based game blending a wireless broadband internet network, the coolest Internet-phones on the market, strategy, and performance art. Teams will traverse the urban grid of Williamsburg, improvising scenes suggested by an online random phrase generator. Digital images of the staged scenes will be uploaded to a server to win street intersections in a game modeled after the popular board game Othello.

“Birmingham’s tech-savvy workforce caught the bug last year when we turned our downtown into a digital playground, inspired by past urban games in New York City,” said Curtis Palmer, president/CEO of non-profit TechBirmingham. “It’s exciting to bring our game north out of the Deep South and share the game of Urban Reversi with the city that originally inspired it.”

The Urban Reversi game will take place within a six-by-six-block area adjacent to several of the Conflux festival venues. A map of the zone is available for viewing on the project website. Teams of 4 to 40 people are encouraged to play this free event at the Conflux Festival headquarters. Individuals showing up to play the game will be placed into teams. All the technology necessary to play the game will be provided, but individuals are encouraged to bring their own Motorola Q phones to expand the number of potential participants. There is no limit on the number of simultaneous players or matches.

Members of the Birmingham civic group, Catalyst, will help stage Urban Reversi. “This is a natural fit for us,” said Alan Hunter, founder of Catalyst and former MTV VJ. “We are interested in linking Birmingham’s civic-minded young professionals with opportunities to influence the world around them. This game and the effort in New York City takes our tag-line, ‘hip to be civic’, to a whole new level. With Urban Reversi, it’s now ‘hip to be tech.” The game will be staged again, next week, at the renowned Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, in Birminghams historic theater district.

About CONFLUX Festival:

Conflux is a hub for contemporary psychogeography, the exploration of the physical and psychological landscape of cities. Conflux 2006 will feature a full program of events from Thursday through Sunday, with projects from over 75 artists from across the US and countries including Canada, UK, Spain, Germany, Finland, Sweden, and Australia. Events will take place at multiple locations in Williamsburg, with festival headquarters at McCaig-Welles Gallery, 129 Roebling Street between N. 4th and N. 5th Streets, where maps and a schedule will be available. All Conflux events will be free and open to the public. A complete schedule with event details and additional information is available online at http://confluxfestival.org.

About Urban Reversi:

Urban Reversi is a project of TechBirmingham, a not-for-profit entity focused on growing the Birmingham, Ala. region’s technology economy. Partners in the game include University of Alabama at Birminghams Game Development Club, developers of the game, and Catalyst, a young-professionals group making it hip to be civic.

TechBirmingham was formed in 2002 by the community to lead, support, and coordinate the start-up, attraction, growth, retention, and expansion of technology-based businesses, investments, and jobs for the entire Birmingham metropolitan region. For more information on TechBirmingham and its other activities, please visit http://www.TechBirmingham.com. For more information on Urban Reversi, please visit UrbanReversi.wordpress.com. A newsreader XML feed is available for the effort.

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Elizabethtown, KY (PRWEB) December 19, 2008

Google’s effort to get a fast lane for its services is old news, according to Stephen E. Arnold, author of several Google technology analyses.

A recent spotlight on Google and its plans for entering into deals with large telecommunications companies has created a need for information and analysis about the large Internet company. While some companies are dismissing the possible future, Arnold warns content providers not to be too complacent.

“You’re grasping at straws when you suggest that Google requires the support and permission of any entity or individual. The GOOG is emerging as the first digital nation state: Tough to understand, tough to regulate, and tough to thwart,” Arnold said.

Arnold’s monographs date from 2005 to September 2008 with a new report due out in March 2009.

The Google Legacy

“The Google Legacy: How Google’s Internet Search Is Transforming Application Software” breaks down the transformational computing platform that is Google. Written for business readers, especially senior executives of mid to large-sized, knowledge-based corporations, “The Google Legacy” places Google under a microscope, dissects Google’s technology, evaluates its potential and determines that Google’s future lies beyond search.

Three appendices provide lists of Google patents, publishers who have indicated some type of relationship with Google, and universities working with Google-information that, according to the author, Google has sought to keep under wraps.

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Arnold’s second study, “Google Version 2.0: The Calculating Predator,” published by Infonortics in 2007, takes an even closer look at the content provider’s growing power and ubiquity. It was the first detailed study of the major patents held by Google and extrapolated the company’s possible business strategies — many of which have held true.

“Innovation at Google is the fuel needed to power the Googleplex and to satisfy Google’s hunger for ever more powerful, capable systems and software,” Arnold said. “Google, unlike Amazon or Yahoo, is built on mathematics, not engineering.”

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Arnold and his Beyond Search team at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/ also offer professional, tailored briefings on Google’s technology investments over the last decade, including the telco analysis and a new one on Google’s machine learning methods. These are a blend of technology analysis and examples in Google’s open source publications.

Arnold’s Overflight service at http://www.arnoldit.com/overflight/ is an RSS aggregation service. The service that is now publicly available aggregates the headlines from Google’s 74 Web logs. The team groups the most recent headlines using the same categories that Google favors. The for-fee service offers more bells and whistles, but a free trial is available at http://www.arnoldit.com/overflight. Companies can see at a glance what Google is publishing on its own Web logs; Arnold can organize and quantify the information tailored to a company’s specifications.

“I rely on my analytical methods to identify key trends and use only open source materials. Nevertheless, the capabilities of Google are quite interesting,” Arnold said. “Just look at what the GOOG has done in online advertising. The disruptive potential of its other technologies is comparable.”

Two other monographs discussed Google’s technology investments designed to give the company pride of place in Internet services. The 2006 BearStearns’ report on Google’s Programmable Search Engine is no longer available. The more recent analyses of Google’s dataspace initiative, co-authored with Sue Feldman, is available from IDC, the information technology consulting firm. Dataspaces is IDC report number 213562.

For more information on Arnold’s services, contact him at seaky2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com or the Beyond Search team at (502) 228-1966.

About Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go “beyond search”. Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. For more information about Arnold IT, contact Stuart Schram, chief technology officer, at (502) 228-1966. The company’s Web site is http://arnoldit.com, and the Beyond Search blog is at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/.

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