De Leguanen - Alternate reality game trailer

De Leguanen is een Nederlandse Alternate Reality Game. De spelers van deze game gingen begin 2011 aan de hand van raadsels over het erfgoed van Breda op zoek naar smartphones. Om zo de opa van Eef te redden uit de handen van het privacy verwoestende data mining bedrijf, Panopticom.

The Iguanas is a dutch Alternate Reality Game. The players of this game started early 2011 on the basis of puzzles about the cultural heritage of Breda. The searching for smartphones. So they can save the grandfather of Eef from the destructive hands of the privacy data mining company, Panopticom.

Coderunner: An undercover mission of hacking, spying, sabotage and murder.

Last week i played this iPhone game intensively and it has made quite an impression. What an intriguing way to play spy. I'm hooked!
The game uses public info like the location of ATM machines and medical institutions around you wich makes it a local experience however it can be played anywhere in the world.

The game was developed by podcast pioneer, writer and actor Jeff Macpherson who is the founder of tikibartv.

Coderunnergame website.

Record, analyse and share your ski track!

Take your phone out skiing!
One of America's largest ski resort companies is hoping to make the sport even more social this season, with a location-based gaming app it's calling Epic Mix.
Vail Resorts, owners of resorts in Colorado and California debuted the mobile and web-based application at a press event at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan.

When the mountains open in November, Epic Mix will allow visitors to the resorts to track the runs they completed, log their vertical feet as a score, unlock achievement 'Pins' and access several utilities, both in iPhone and Android apps and at epicmix.com.

The project combines lots of location-based service and gaming elements; rewards for varied experience, social sharing of vertical feet in a leaderboard and more.

RFID enabled
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the Epic Mix tracking system is it works on the RFID chips in skiiers' passes. There's no fumbling with your phone on the lift to check in to a run. When your pass is scanned at the lift, you're checked in, and no constant GPS contact and battery drain is required, like North Face's Trailhead iPhone app.

Gotta go? There’s an app for that!

Mom always said, “Be sure to go before you leave the house,” but a long work session at the coffee shop can ruin the best laid plans when it comes to finding relief on the mean city streets.

Rather than run the risk of a public urination charge, now there’s an app for finding sweet relief (or offering it) in the city. CLOO, designed by Hillary Young, throws open the bathroom doors of friends and friends of friends “for the cost of a latte,” and that’s something we can all drink to, right?

2 Dutch girls discover a new sport: Figure Running

Everybody loves playing outside. Figurerunning is a new sport that encourages you to get creative, go outside and discover new places while running and getting fit. The competition is not about your running speed or distance, it’s all about drawing. Become a master the art of Figurerunning. Do it when and wherever you want and be sure to share your art with your friends. The world is our canvas and you are the pencil!

Every serious sport wants to be recognised by the IOC’s Olympic Programme Commission. Their mission is to be included in the Olympic Programme of Rio de Janeiro 2016.

Take part and run figures!

Photosharing app "Color" gains enormous attention (and money).

A just recently released iPhone an Android app called Color has made a kickstart. This simple video has been viewed almost 60.000 times in only 5 days!

Instagram has taken the app world by storm, but here comes the challenger in a universe obsessed with instant photo sharing, complete with a tonne of great social features, and minus the need to “filter” everything for coolness, instead, showcasing location based group albums.

Now, it’s not just “location” as the primary feature, its actually all about creating social photo albums based around those locations, from you, your friends and every other stranger within 150 feet. The app takes everything into the “multi-lens” view, were you can literally see every photo being taken right now, with in that 150 feet, allowing you to experience a location or say, an event, from other perspectives in real time. It also allows you to comment and interact with the people taking photos.

At first glance, this is about to become a “must have” event/party app, but I suspect it might just be a little more in the long run as people discover the power of social perspective.

Venture Capital
It is worth adding that this new app Color has a number of interested investors. Color, a California based company has till now raised $41 million investment money.

Thanks to DigitalBuzz.