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Ludicorp is pleased to announce that Ludicorp Team Members Stewart Butterfield, Ben Cerveny and Eric Costello have been invited to speak at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, February 9-12, 2004, at the Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA. This year's conference centers on the topics of mobility, location, hardware, new business models and social software.
Past speakers of the forward-thinking conference have included such luminaries as Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law Professor and author of The Future of Ideas; Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra, makers of Blogger (and Ludicorp Advisor); author and technology consultant Clay Shirky (hey! another Ludicorp Advisor!), computer science legend Alan Kay, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
The Ludicorpers will be speaking in the social software track, on the following topic:
Virtual Worlds, Distributed Interaction: Extending a MMOG with Remote Scripting, IM, Mobiles and REST
What happens when you expose the mechanisms for interaction with a massively multiplayer online game as a set of web services APIs and simple out-of-application interfaces for end users? The state of the game world, maintained by a set of server-side processes, becomes a model shared across multiple platforms from which the game world can be accessed. This proliferation of accessibility enables, not only MIDP phone views on the gameworld and the potential for grandly envisioned console title development, but subtler, more pervasive modes of mixing game action and awareness with web, instant messaging and mobile experiences. [Full session details]
This is the second year in a row that Ludicorp has been represented at the conference (Ludicorp President Stewart Butterfield spoke last year on Play and Social Software). Ludicorp Advisor Cory Doctorow will also be speaking at ETCon. Conference registration is now open.
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