Upcoming event alert: I'll be at Casuality Europe next February, talking about our experiences working for the largest casual game publisher in the UK: what we've done, how we've done it, what works and what doesn't.

Interesting point I'd not considered from Christopher Kobayashi, on the Keitai-L list: "Kind of spooky to think that there's web connections in the background
without the user pressing a link/button. Basically meaning that
they'll be charged without them knowing it.
If you're on a unlimited data plan this wouldn't matter much, but what
about the poor souls not on this plan. Bad people can make things
expensive, or is there a limit to this..."

My slides from the night are here. They probably don't make much sense without me jabbering for 10 minutes around them.

Thanks to Fjord/Flirtomatic for hosting the evening and Stuart John for his MCing sk1llz...

Worst Technology for Girls: "They explored the concept by inviting the girls in the study to imagineer their nightmare technologies, although I think boys would share the conclusions"

This reminds me of an idea Robert was talking about when we last met: anti-Design. Think of the absolute worst thing you'd want from an interface, then do the opposite of that.