So yesterday I posted a definition of “ Game &# but shortly after I posted it, someone pointed out that I forgot to include “fun&# and Stephen Downes , not without merit, pointed out that it is a “mug’s game&# to define “game&# nevertheless I will persist with the act of defining game and also examine the case for “fun&# within a game. The question to examine is should a game necessarily be fun? For insight into the answer, I turned to Raph Koster’s book Theory of Fun for Game Design. This almost always causes us t break out into a smile. Games MORE >>

An email headed ‘Looking at things the right way’ recently landed in my inbox. It was a series of photographs about shifting perspectives: things that look perfectly normal from one view but a little odd (or wonderful) when looked at in another way. Some are cute, some are rude, some are funny, but I’ve included a couple of my favourites below. At around the same time, I found myself chatting about my home town with Craig Taylor. Craig used to be based in Colchester during his army years; my parents live just outside Colchester, I spent my teenage years there and I still visit often. MORE >>

Netflix surpassed yet another milestone this week: It now has more subscribers than the largest cable TV operator in the U.S. You heard right…that’s 23.6 million users to be exact… an awful lot of subscribers. Their subscription base grew over 70% last year and that mean that more than 7% of Americans now subscribe to Netflix. So, how did they do it? m not a business analyst, but as someone who worked at Netflix a few years ago, I’m intrigued by this company’s unstoppable growth and what we can learn by what they’ve done right. Here are a few thoughts. Core business. It’s about the software. MORE >>

EasyGenerator. EasyGenerator is a SaaS based content authoring tool that is like a piece of fine sculpture, with some cracks, but beauty that is hidden within. Good, Average & Poor. Extremely feature rich – can compete with Captivate and other authoring tools. Can use images and video with text and move the text separately from the object, something many RCATs can’t do because they use grouping which cannot be un-grouped. Workspace mode is seen in real time, so u do not have to preview it every time to see an update. You see it in a large window on your screen. Average. Course. MORE >>

No, I don’t want you to come work for me and then purposefully be a failure. But this is what I DO need… In June I am speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. All the sessions talk about what you should do. My session will be about what you should NOT do. We are going to focus on case studies where the result was failure and glean lessons from them. So what I would ask of you is the story of your failure (and YES, if you want to be anonymous, I will most certainly make sure the story is not attached to the name or company). Thank you! Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>