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redleaf_funware_proposal [2010-04-21 11:42] davegriffithsredleaf_funware_proposal [2010-04-21 11:58] davegriffiths
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-  * Amnesia: You wake up with no memory of who you are (naked on a beach near Ipswich, or maybe on a spaceship orbiting Saturn) - you need to find out who your friends are, where your pictures have gone. Part of this is by working out which characters are real and which are bots.+  * Amnesia: You wake up with no memory of who you are (naked on a beach near Ipswich, or maybe on a spaceship orbiting Saturn) - you need to find out who your friends are, where your pictures have gone. Collect all your information which has become scattered. Part of this is by working out which characters are real and which are bots.
   * Recursive: "You are sitting at your computer looking at FaceBook. What would you like to do?"   * Recursive: "You are sitting at your computer looking at FaceBook. What would you like to do?"
  
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   * Reveal underlying apparatus and risks of centralized and proprietary data-mining driven social software   * Reveal underlying apparatus and risks of centralized and proprietary data-mining driven social software
   * Reverse engineer the black box by the mean of gaming    * Reverse engineer the black box by the mean of gaming 
-  * Reverse turing test - people pretending to be bots+  * Just put some art in these spaces - something reflective, thoughtful rather than purely functional. I think this could be the most shocking thing. 
 +  * Explore the limits of the polices and API's - not in a controversial unthinking, get the headlines manner, but in a curious, scientific, well mannered approach. Document this like it's cutting edge research. 
 +  * Transparency and openness - need to be emphasised at all times, the working of the game needs to be transparent, and also our working methods (free software, publish documentation, process visible). 
 +  * Reverse turing test - people pretending to be bots as game mechanic
  
 ===== General outline of the scope of the final work ===== ===== General outline of the scope of the final work =====
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   * Spread positive ideas using mass media channel VS remain in secure niche of specialist and already convinced communities   * Spread positive ideas using mass media channel VS remain in secure niche of specialist and already convinced communities
   * Viral and Spreadable ideas are not for marketing but powerful vector to share knowledge and ideas   * Viral and Spreadable ideas are not for marketing but powerful vector to share knowledge and ideas
 +  * Use of the data you own (and your friends) as a world in which you live/environment/valuable goods - underline the importance of it (and the quantity)
  
 ===== Outline of the research and development plan ===== ===== Outline of the research and development plan =====
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