After several months of hard work and fun, we are about to release Pulitzer, PULITZER[1]. Play and Learn English,  a Facebook-based social game that helps you learn English the fun way.  There is also a web based version of the game for those that will not use FB.

In the game, Joe Pulitzer is a journalist working for a news agency called Amazing News. Pulitzer has to travel around the world to obtain as much information as possible to publish his articles. The protagonist needs to complete successfully grammar exercises, maintain several dialogues and solve questions and enigmas in order to travel to the next city or stage.

Have a look at this video below to see the game in action. But let’s Show, don’t tell:

The first episode of Pulitzer (entitled The mysterious secret of Hugh Grand) is being released in November 2011. This episode requires 6 hours of playing and learning. It will be the first of a total of 18.

¿What do you think? We want to sell it all over the World, ¿would you give us a hand?

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[1] The name of the game is a homage to Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 -October 29, 1911) also known as Joe. J. Pulitzer is best known for the journalism prizes that bear his name. He was an American editor, born in Mako (Hungary), known for his fierce competition with William Randolph Hearst.

This is the video (by 601) shown at the ceremony of the CLUSTERTIC AWARDS 2010. I explain the innovation areas we work on: Virtual worlds, Augmented Reality,  Facebook applications (including games) and Smartphone applications (including html5). One post some weeks ago explained all this stuff: http://eduardovalencia.com/2010/12/02/about-our-innovation-methododology/

Originally posted (in spanish) on http://www.marque.es/blog/?p=144

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Paper.li transforms your Twitter timeline into an online newspaper.

Look at http://paper.li/eduardovalencia , for example. See also Mikel Belasko: http://paper.li/mikelbelasko

How does it work? Paper.li scans all the links shared by the people you follow on Twitter.  It classifies them according to subjects (social media, technology, etc.). Semantic analysis tools extract the contents (text, video, images, pdf) and classify them according to their importance.

Paper.li summarizes the hundreds of tweets of a full day in 40 tweets or so. It includes advertising, videos, etc.. The layout is very good.

As a result, you can read a digital newspaper front page that is updated every 24 hours. You can also subscribe to any of the papers of the paper.li users.

1. It helps to read your tweets

Whenever your Twitter timeline is made upo of more than 100 profiles,  you can spend hours reading tweets and links on a daily basis. There are, of course, lists on Twitter. But Paper.li. is much easier

When using only Paper.li instead of your favourite Tweeter application, we lose some or many tweets that could interest us, because we depend on the criteria of an automated platform. But better to read the summary, than not reading anything at all,  of course .

2. What if we manually select what you want to publish?

With Paper.li you can read the “papers” from other users. We could also create a special account with a select group of profiles that match a particular subject. We could make, for example, a newspaper on Augmented Reality.

But if we had a tool that enabled us to manually select the really good items you want to publish from the tweets of your timeline, we would be able to build a quality online journal with little effort.

I would probably add a device for keeping the contents of every daily edition. Just in case.

Creating my  exclusive “Augmented News” paper would take me less than an hour a day. I think we’re going to make it …

Can you think of  other benefits of Paper.li?