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Real time movie making with Xtranormal

by justingibbs on June 18, 2009

One of the more exciting companies I’ve come across recently is Xtranormal. It’s a great example of where I see the future of entertainment going.
Movies have been digital for a while, but Xtranormal moves the entire creation process into the digital realm. Newspapers went fully digital with the Internet and look what it did for [...]

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Best books for lean product managers

by justingibbs on April 28, 2009

Being an avid reader of non-fiction I find that I tend to go through phases. Right now I’m racing through books that have anything to do with Disney Imagineering. Prior to that it was lean product development. Having just finished Four Steps to the Epiphany I thought I’d compile a list of what I found [...]

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A billion to take on WoW, time for mass amateurization

by justingibbs on August 12, 2008

Apparently WoW is so dominate in the fantasy space that future MMOs are looking for greener pastures to explore.
Sports just makes the most sense. Loads of people like football. At Monumental we want to take national pastimes and make them MMOs – things like fishing or trainspotting. Fantasy is very well serviced. I’d need a billion [...]

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I found the post Putting the creativity back in creative capitalism particularly interesting to the development of the metaverse. In my last post I wrote about a comment from Dusan Writer, where he expressed worry that much of what is great about the metaverse is being twisted for corporations. He echoed that feeling in his [...]

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