Gary Hayes

Games & Virtual Worlds Are Dying? So What's the ROI?

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Multi Platform Social Media - diagram-by-diagram

by: Gary Hayes

Over the years I have been creating lots of confusing, busy yet at the same time, meaningful and insightful emergent media diagrams. These attempt to help the uninitiated heritage media folk, get to grips with a multiplatform, shifting-social-media-sands, transmogodified entertainment landscape…breathe.

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Good, Bad & Ugly of Artistes Moving into Social Media

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“so please don’t forget to support artists like myself who have never had a fair chance in the record industry” guess who…

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ROI 101 & Stickiness of Second Life?

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Virtual Worlds Rescue TV?! Or V.V.?!

by: Gary Hayes

What may save TV may also truly grow Social Virtual Worlds. As online audiences continue to ignore TV and vanilla/social virtual worlds suffer from a lack of direction, perhaps the marriage of the two will save both from irrelevancy? A report by Gary Hazlitt in various TV branded virtual world spaces.

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A Top 25 List of Social Media, Web 2.0 & Marketing 'Best-Of-Lists!'

by: Gary Hayes

I don’t know what is in the blogosphere water at the moment but every day for the last 6 months or so we seem to get a new list or top 10/20/25/50. They seem to fall into 1 of 4 categories.

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Review 'Life III: Escape from Reality' Game

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TV from Cradle to the Grave - What We Can Learn at Its Birth

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Playstation 3 Home First Use in Videos

by: Gary Hayes

I haven’t been able to log into Sony’s PS3 home yet but have been fascinated in the trickle of videos onto YouTube showing first usage in the past two days. There are many posts over the last 2 years about PS3Home on this blog and it is great to finally see it come out of alpha (it still feels like a mature beta) as promised ahead of the XMas fest this year. Previous posts followed by some nice ‘early captures’:

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When the Economy Gets Rough, Virtual Worlds Get Growing

by: Gary Hayes

Just back from a short break in the lovely town of Broome in NW Australia (my pics). It was interesting being disconnected from ‘the cloud’ but in the process having a few ‘virtual experiential’ moments. One of these was watching the controversial film ‘Australia’ in the worlds oldest picture gardens, Sun Pictures (pictured below).

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