![]() The medium of IM has been underappreciated by nearly everyone in the “media” business for one reason – the leaders of the business didn’t use IM. So why am I so on about this? Well, first of all, a mashup of RSS and IM is just a very cool idea. To showcase what it can do, Phil has even set up a BoingBoing feed through the MakeBot, so you can get Boing Boing posts in an IM window. You can also set up alerts for new items on the Make blog, for example (that’s what the shot at left is showing). You can open a chat with it, and ask it things (based on any number of simple commands that the publisher sets up), or perhaps send it a magazine content search (powered by Google). In short, MakeBot is an IM chat bot – it looks like any other IM buddy. What really blows my mind is how simple and obvious MakeBot is. It was just this week that I realized what this thing can do, thanks mostly to Boing Boing, which is partnering with Phil to do a BB feed via IM.) ( Caveat – I’m band manager of BB, and was Publisher at Large for Make, but honestly, I had nothing to do with the MakeBot, and pretty much missed it when it came out last month. MakeBot points the way toward a possible end around the walled gardens of mobile carriers. This all comes not from a major mobile company, or a hot new Internet startup, but from Make magazine, where Phil – who has been banging this drum for a long, long time – works. And the beauty is that a couple of code jockeys like Phil Torrone and his partner Sergio Zlobin can make it happen in a few days, using platforms (IM) and data structures (RSS) that already exist. Or at least, what MakeBot points us toward is it. And it will be a business that looks and feels like a Web 2.0 business – leveraging iterative web development practices, open APIs, and innovation in assembly – that makes the leap. The outlines of such an innovation: it’ll be a way for mobile users to gather the unstructured data they leverage every day while talking on the phone and make it useful to their personal web (including email and RSS, in particular). ![]() At the core of this innovation will be the concept of search. Mobile will finally be plugged into the web in a way that makes sense for the average user and a major mobile innovation – the kind that makes us all say – Jeez that was obvious – will occur. And of course, it might get squashed before it gets off the ground (more on that later), but I certainly hope not. It did happen this year, I just hadn’t figured it out yet. If they REPEAT history like this now in mobile, well, it will just continue in yet another game designed by them.So remember that prediction I made back in 2004, the one about mobile busting out in some kind of Web 2.0 way in 2005? And how it didn’t happen, so I repeated it again this year? Well, I was wrong. My advice, play another game and stay clear of IGG. Then when the f2p players dwindle to the point you have to pay players to continue playing (VC that is what they were doing in the end for just logging on). You do this to your games every time catering to P2W players spending thousands a month. Because why? Voyage Century near it's end you included a farming bot because whales don't farm mats. There you go IGG proof they're botting and so sure you won't do a god picking thing about wholesale botting in your game. Makes the "overlord" look sweet with 7mil might defeats. I joined the game about 2 weeks ago, not even 3 days in you could see whole areas of hives with just a few drones to protect their level 10 castles. ![]() "War game dissatisfaction is to do not moral kidnapping this alliance recruits to collect hand soldiers to fill the hand of the devil hand sister welcome 615 behind the area of the friends turn to the league 24 hours robot open to help you rise faster turn zone please add WeChat (name I won't post)." Here's what was posted on realm #615 and the "overlord", with the R4 saying "nobody cares" when criticism was due for botting and what it does to gaming.
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