Codename Journeys

More verbose than usual today.

We just spotted a great point from Michael Eisenberg Blog regarding what you and young adult audiences are interested in. Focus on:
The salient point in my mind that emerged today is that younger people today are more interested in other people rather than packaged and produced entertainment. They want to do things with friends, hear from them, share with them and find ever-more ways to interact with them. 

Yes. This is obviously the great wave. Its UGC. Its social media and social networks in reticular. It’s the mini feed and statuses in our IMs and Facebook(s). It is all over and people just can’t get enough.

It is fun and its time consuming. A true entertainment for the new generation.

Earth

What a wonderful place. Its big, its great and once you move 50 miles off from your chair and desktop computer, you can see great things.

Photocritic just published a great “top 12″ photos from Earth Shots. What a wonderful place we live in

http://www.photocritic.org/2007/happy-birthday-earth-shots/

Enjoy

Wow

We really are bad at updating this Blog.

One thing we can not overlook is the celebrations of Assaf’s Wedding. Assaf, one of the founders and our chief creative got married yesterday to Noam . It was a great party, dancing and alcohol. Needless to say, today people in the office where taking it slow, eyes half shut and smiling. Good thing our weekend starts today for everyone to recover. Assaf and Noam, from all of us at Journeys, we wish you happiness and prosperity.

(PS Assaf, its time to update your relationship status on Facebook ;)

We are happy to be back home !
October is ending and with it, the events planned. We got loads of feedback (most of it good ;) ) and now its back to get into the milestone plan, changes and adaptations and production.
We’ll try to update more and give some reflections on the UK event (and the US one).

Guy Bendov and Assaf Priel will be at the event. We’d be happy to meet up and get together !

MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY.
SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL.
HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1914

We are recruiting again.
If you are an experienced Flash developer, Flash artists, UI designer or story writer, please contact us.

Jessica did something great:

View the Seattle 2007 podcast & .ppt’s
View the Summer CGA Magazine

Journeys is excited to offer a 10% discount for visitors to Virtual Worlds Fall - October 10-11, 2007 - San Jose Convention Center http://www.VirtualWorldsFall.com   

You can use the promo code: vipjourneys (all lowercase) at their registration page - hurry before August end to enjoy an additional early bird fee. 

http://www.clubpenguin.com/news.htm

and

http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/disney-acquires.html

what can we say… CP was and is a perfectly done chat and game world for its audience… (and for older too). Way to go for the team there.

The team here.

While roaming through San Francisco using Microsoft’s virtual earth, I saw this humongous billboard, planted by the MSFT people pushing local pizza (and local yellow pages ads)  - clickable.

This is the expected next step in the growing in-game adverting trend. Not a hype, now a reality, putting ads in virtual worlds, whether retail games, MMO or real world browsers or plain virtual worlds.  

Its where the future battle of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo will happen.

Join them, innovate or hide.