I'm a bit late in posting on this.. Peemog has gone into beta!
...yet. You have to sign up for that.
PMOG was conceived by Justin Hall as part of his MA, and I got him to build me a prototype while I was at the BBC. It was good; I wanted to build on it further, but I left the BBC for Channel 4 and PMOG was about to get VC funding from American sources, and now here it is: very much developed and expanded. In beta. Demo'ing at GDC, no less!
Gratz, Justin, Merci and Duncan!
I'll miss you this year at GDC (bah), but I'll see you in the summer...
looks very interesting. i loved the idea.
i hope they are fast to give out some beta invitations, thanks for letting us know.
Posted by: alper | January 29, 2008 at 10:45
very interesting, indeed
thanks for the link
from the multitude of blogs a read everyday, yours turns out to be one of the most interesting (and useful, mind you). Great links, great news.
just spreading some well-deserved love ;)
Posted by: Miguel Young | January 29, 2008 at 14:12
Oh man this sounds so cool, even my boring roomate thought this sounded awesome.
Me want. I signed up for beta. ^^
Posted by: AliceKK | January 30, 2008 at 07:00
Part of me thinks this may be a cool idea. The other part of me wonders if this is just a "fun" way to harvest data on surfing patterns.
Posted by: RIch | January 30, 2008 at 13:36
Interesting, I'll certainly give the beta a shot...
Posted by: Wandring_Soul | January 30, 2008 at 15:11
Rich - the privacy issues were one of the things that got me interested in the first place. In the BBC prototype, one of the core ideas was that in order to level up, you'd learn about protecting your data. It was cool.
Posted by: Alice | January 31, 2008 at 10:43
p.s. thanx Miguel, you made me blush :)
Posted by: Alice | January 31, 2008 at 10:45
Well, I've signed up for the Beta so I guess I may know soon enough.
Posted by: Rich | January 31, 2008 at 17:39
Site is down?
Posted by: Adam | February 01, 2008 at 18:11
Frankly, the game's a wonderful idea but it's lacking in execution. Be prepared to have whining messages in your inbox if you dare lay a mine the holy sanctity of BoingBoing or a news site. The "missions", often user-created, are often little more than showcases of that user's personality or esoteric interests. It lost its charm in about 3 days for me. Nice try, though.
Posted by: h3llc4t | February 29, 2008 at 14:50
PMOG died, from mismanagement, perhaps.
nethernet-no-more
http://yfrog.com/iynomorenethernetj
Like the first version of Star Trek, that the networks killed, and made a comeback, or like Netscape which became Firefox, thenethernet has gone opensource.
It is phoenixing itself here:
http://www.nova-initia.com/
(click 'There is still some usefulness here' to request admission to beta testing)
Chat here: irc://freenode/nova-initia
http://tnnrefugees.ning.com/ for more information
or http://news.thenethernet.com/ .
Posted by: dav2 | December 18, 2009 at 04:12