Download - USF ARG seminar Feb 08
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Alternate Reality Gaming and the uneasy relationship between business and the New Web
J.P. AllenUniversity of San Franciscoblog.jpedia.org
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Summary(if you don’t enjoy surprise endings)
1. ARGs are interesting because they:
• are large, temporary, task-focused online communities(unlike most...see Preece, 2000; Allen, 2008)
• show the power of self-organization and open technology (see Benkler, 2006; von Hippel, 2005)
2. but ARGs are but one small example of the depth and power of the New Web...and its uneasy relationship with business as we know it
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If this presentation were an Alternate Reality Game...
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The “rabbit hole”
Who is the JP?
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Initial story and clues
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Setting up player resources
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Collective puzzle solving
ADMIT OURSUITOR
COMMUNITY
AAPLTCSCOGOOGHPQINTCIBMMSFTORCLVZ
TECHNOLOGYKNOWLEDGE
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Regular story releases (multiple media)
Dean Duffington,University of San Andreas Business School
Professor Soyrizo,University of San Andreas Business School
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Conclusion: Story ends with live events
and “puppetmasters” revealed
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The two ARGs that started it all...
The Beast - set in A.I. movie world
ilovebees - set in Halo 2 videogame world
(cloudmakers.org)
(dorkclub.com)
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Self-organization extraordinaire -the cloudmakers’ trail
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(argn.com)
(argn.com)
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The Artifact
Jersey Morelli Jason Morelli
Janissary James
James James (Lee)SPARTAN I PROGRAM
SPARTAN II PROGRAM
McKaskill
Kamal
YasmineDurga (AI)
Melissa (AI)
Apocalypso
"Castaway"?
Gilly
Gladys Wilson
Sophie
Hiro
Aiden MakiCoral Colony
(Glassed in Oct)
Reach Base (Glassed in Sept)
Pious Flea (TSR)
(AI) Sleeping Princess
Dana
Aunt MargaretFarnsworth
SPDR (process)
WWW.ILOVEBEES.COM
Cpt. Greene
OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
(ONI) Standish
Rani
HerzogADMIRAL, UNSC
Mr. F
Thin Kinkle
UNSC WAR WITH THE ALIEN
COVENANT
COVENANT DESTROY COLONIES, WILL REACH
EARTH NOV 9
HALO
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The depth and power of the New Web
• The participatory web
• The social web
• User-generated content
• “Web 2.0”
• Collective intelligence
(rojo.com)
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The New Web - not your mama’s dot.com internet...
Three major changes, 2001 to 2007: • Consolidation of Search: In 2001, people apparently had a really
hard time finding stuff. In the top 25 sites, 10 were some form of search engine or portal. With the exception of the MSN, Yahoo and Google, the rest have fallen out of the picture.
• Shift toward socialization: The top sites in 2001 were predominately focused on delivering one-way information, whether it be through search, professional produced media, or ecommerce. In 2007, the top 50 are skewed heavily towards social sites, so much so, in fact, that MySpace, Youtube, and Facebook account for a collective 14% of all time spent online.
• Increasing entertainment: With broadband speed comes broadband media and games. Pogo.com, runescape.com, and neopets.com all live in the top 25 sites on the web.
(compete.com)
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Largest gainsUnique visitors, 9/06-9/07
1. youtube.com2. flickr.com3. fling.com4. wikipedia.org5. digg.com6. google.com7. att.com8. facebook.com9. turn.com10.yahoo.com
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The New Web as an independent force
For less than $100/year...
1,500 Gb storage15 Tb transfer/monthPayment processingTargeted adsFull web analyticsWorld-class software for:
web server and databasecontent managementwikis and forumsCRMonline education and training...and tens of thousands more apps
(3mpub.com)
For “free”Groups, forums, wikis, blogs, file/photo/video sharing, FAQs, opinion/review sharing, social networks, auctions, real-time collaboration...
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CommunityTechnology
Knowledge
The New WebFreely available knowledge
Online communityOpen technology
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CommunityTechnology
Knowledge What to do with the New Web?
Ignore it?Advertise to it?React to it?Interact with it?Participate in it?Control it?Use it?Subcontract to it?Compete with it?Destroy it?
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Reactions to the New Web:the next generation of Alternate Reality Games
ARGs as marketing - Audi’s Art of the Heist
ARGs as stand-alone business - Perplex City
ARGs as point of view - World Without Oil
Amateur ARGs - OpAphid ARG for lonelygirl15
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Summary(in case you got lost along the way)
1. ARGs are interesting because they:
• are large, temporary, task-focused online communities(unlike most...see Preece, 2000; Allen, 2008)
• show the power of self-organization and open technology (see Benkler, 2006; von Hippel, 2005)
2. but ARGs are but one small example of the depth and power of the New Web...and its uneasy relationship with business as we know it
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What are my plans?• Knowledge
“How Web 2.0 solves the knowledge sharing problem” - IEEE ISTAS conference
• Community
“Online communities that break the rules”
• Technology
“Six Web 2.0 capabilities that changed knowledge sharing”
ABA National Institute on CyberLaw, Virtual Reality panel
• The New Web
New Web mini-case collection
“Web Renaissance” book proposal
prosper 450k loans
facebook 1% US internet
digg 1m daily visitors
plentyoffish 1.2m users
craigslist 10m new ads/m
linkedin 25 new u/minute
argn 420k posts
yelp 1m reviews
tripadvisor 10m reviews
wikipedia 8.3m articles
wordpress 78k posts/day
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What are your plans?I cannot imagine an area of business that will not be touched by the new online world.