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Sophisticated things smart people say about other people - everybody loves it. But what if such things were said from a totally different perspective? Nowadays technology is able to analyze, think, judge, choose and response. What was a part of science fiction world now starts to leak into reality. It's high time to realize that …
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Both iPhone and hashtag stories are much better known than this literary experiment. I’ve been trying to use Google Translate a few times before, including Google-translated Day, but the feeling I always had was that it’s not there yet. But now I’m fully convinced I’m doing the right thing. What’s more important: it’s not too …
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If you own an iPhone and want to share with the world more than just pictures, try this: one picture stories. They're extremely easy to create - and fun to do. What you need is one great application from the AppStore - Type Drawing. The app is definitely worth its price - 1,99 USD/1,59 EUR …
It's almost a year since I started hashtagstories - microstories written with current Twitter hashtags. Sorry? Stories written with what? A year ago this was weird even to me. But it was just so inspiring to combine the world of hashtags into a piece of a literary fiction that I gave it a try. I …
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Today @wembley shared a great link. When you go to a Twitter profile of @420watch, you'll see in a sidebar an awesome visual art made from animated avatars. The idea is brilliant, as well as execution. One of those ideas answering a question "what else can we do with the old good Twitter". One of …
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Yay, #1picstory is doing really well! Stories receive a growing number of views and retweets. Looks like this type of micro fiction is more appealing than just words. With every new picture created I feel better suited to continue the project. It becomes an exceptional skill, which combined with the ownable storytelling idea, is worth …
One sentence description of #1picstory (originally tweeted here): A story written within one picture, created on an iPhone from a very first idea to a very first tweet. I started this new digital storytelling project at the beginning of a year. At that time people make resolutions. New Year Resolutions are good, because you can …
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Just tweeted it from @mobilefiction and other profiles. A bonus is a wonderful piece of code, which streams all tweets currently tagged #1picstory. Stay tuned, in a couple of days a kick-off post will appear. I'm writing it right now. http://static.hootsuite.com/hoot-embed.swf
2009 is over. In a couple of days all traces of our last year's activity will disappear from Twitter search results. Everybody wants to shorten a year to a couple of sentences. Same with me. And I'll naturally do it using #hashtagstory. As I described in a kick-off post, hashtagstories were intended to bring fiction …
This is an embedded preview of "The War Machine" - one of the first fiction projects using Google Wave. It is written and moderated by Made in DNA. Use scroll to navigate through the wave. [wave id="googlewave.com!w+-AmnUC3OC" ]
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