Once of the first interesting things I learned in “art” school was how the video game industry had outgrown “Hollywood”. To me that meant all of the time we wasted as kids playing video games had potential of turning into something meaningful. For example, here at JLOOP we produce online Flash video games.

Hollywood quickly adapted and these days every blockbuster movie comes with a video game deal. The role has even been reversed on a few projects where blockbuster movies were based from original video games: Resident Evil, Laura Croft and DOOM. Now major media companies are striking deals with top Hollywood players to buy their way into the video game industry. Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer have now both signed on to create original video games. No doubt movies and cartoons will be spat out by Hollywood studios to follow up and cash out on these to-be blockbuster titles.

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We’ve been talking about the concept of the “Identity Crash” that people can experience when they get too involved in too many social networks. With the advent of Google’s OpenSocial and the explosion of Facebook and their platform… it does seem that there is a new frontier. I’ve recently jumped on board with a lot of social networking sites, including Twitter, Pownce, Facebook, etc. I also recently grabbed myself an OpenID, which I think is a great concept. Which leads me to point out this article on Wired Mag that I thought was timely. http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/12/thanks-to-openi.html Definitely something is beginning to emerge here. And given the speed of tech, it could spell a quick and dramatic change in the social networking landscape.

I saw this logo on TV last night and had to share. One of my favorites

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