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  • See how moral you are with the Moral Experiment

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    About 2 weeks ago, I came across a site called the Moral Experiment, run by John Bushell, who is based here in Durbs.  The Moral Experiment is exactly what it says. It’s an experiment to see how moral we as humans really are. The Moral Experiment is a totally new & revolutionary concept on the internet & is designed to harness the power of your online social network. The site was also featured on Mashable this morning !

    The objective of the Moral Experiment could best be described in the following scenario: If you came into some money that was not meant for you, what would you do with it? Would you keep it all, or would you give it to a worthy cause? Or possibly both? The Moral Experiment is designed to try and understand our choice. Do demographics (religion, race, age, sex, education, etc) influence our decisions? To get a better idea of how the Moral Experiment works ->

    • Jane joins the Moral Experiment, and pays subscription fee of £1. You can also chose a 6 month or 12 month subscription. Payment is done through PayPal
    • Jane then encourages her friends to also join the Experiment by giving them a unique URL to sign up with.
    • When Jane’s friends join the Moral Experiment, she will keep her friend’s subscription fee.
    • Jane then decides what she will do with this cash. Keep it? Give it to charity? Or both? Within two friend referrals to the Moral Experiment Jane as made her original £1 back and is now in profit.

    Jane’s choice is totally anonymous, only she knows what she has chosen to do with her ‘Moral Earnings’. Her general demographics (religion, race, age, sex, education, etc) are fed into the Moral Experiments results, and this data is presented as group data that can be viewed on the web site. Are younger people more charitable than older people? Are women more giving then men? The Moral Experiment is designed to be insightful, fun, and possibly even controversial.

    You can also watch this video to get a better idea of how the Moral Experiment works. I signed up the other day, and I am really impressed with the interface and how the experiment is layed out. I’m def gonna be keeping my eye on this one to see how it all pans out, as well as to see how moral people really are.

    It only costs £1 and there is no obligation to continue. If you keen to give it a bash, you can sign up here

  • Win tickets to the official Nintendo 3DS launch

    The guys and girls at DionWired have offered me 10 sets of double tickets to the official Nintendo 3DS launch happening this Friday at Montecasino. If you would like to attend, leave a comment below, and I will pass it along to the guys at Nintendo.

    Unfortunetly you only have till 4pm today to do so :)

    Go go go…

  • Why I removed my smokoo post

    You may have noticed that I have removed one of the most popular posts on my site about Smokoo.

    Earlier today I got a phone call from the guys at Smokoo who asked me to remove the post, as it was reflecting their company in a negative light. They have offered to have a meeting about this, as they claim to have an open door policy, as well as give me an insight into how the business operates.

    I complied and removed the post, as there is a whole other side to this story, which unfortunately I can’t divulge into at the moment in public.

    To date the post had over 6,000 unique views, as well as over 140 comments from users on the sites. The post ranked as the number 1 post when searching google for the keyword “smokoo”, above the companies site.

    This is the first time that I have ever been asked to remove a post, and to say I am bleak, is an understatement. Unfortunately this time it was a bit to close to home to ignore :(

  • Xbox & Kinect Review

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    A few weeks ago a package arrived at my door that had an XBox & Kinect nicely packaged inside, to try out for a few days. I have been lusting over an Xbox for the last couple of weeks(months), and was really excited to get one to try out. So, I opened the boxes, and literally in 5 minutes, I had the whole system up & running in my lounge. Within in a few more minutes I was jumping around like a mad thing, trying to make my imaganry raft float down an imaginary river in my lounge. Soon after I had the wife next to me trying to get the damned raft to the end of the river, while collecting our imaginary coins. As you can see, so much of fun !

    But. That’s where my Kinect fun ended :(

    Well actually, my fun ended and my kids fun started. Over the course of the next couple of days, I was relegated to “game disc changer” & supervisor. I was banished to the couch to watch, and given the dirty evil eye, that only a 6 year old knows how to master, whenever I attempted to play.

    In all seriousness, the Kinect got rave reviews and a sturdy “Thumbs up” from the kids (and the wife). The guys at XBox sent me 3 games to try out.

    Kinect Adventures,which is the standard game that comes with all Kinect devices. This is the fun one which allows you to play a whack of games, including the river raft one which got us all excited at the beginning. The other game was Dance Central which my daughter loved and had all the moves down to Lady Gaga down to a T after the 2 weeks. The last game we got was called Kinectimals, which is a really cool adventure game for the kids, where you get to take your pet tiger across an island. Another sure hit with the kids.

    I also managed to get the XBox live portion of the console working, which works really well (and simple to setup), and allows you to connect to friends and play against them. I am also keen to try out some of the sport & fitness games which will help with the weight loss mission I am on at the moment.

    All in all the Kinect & XBox was a sure win in our house, and made things tough to explain when the daughters Birthday came around last week. I know for definet that the Kinect will be high on the “must have gadget list” for the year, even if it is just for the kids.

    Thanks to the guys at Microsoft & XBox for the chance to give it a run, you have potentially made me a bit poorer :)

  • U2 Fancam goes live

    [twitter style=”vertical” source=”MarcForrest” float=”left”] As I mentioned in my other post about the Johannesburg U2 concert, I got to meet Tinus and the guys from FanCam. I have been a huge fan of Fancam who produce the most awesome 360 Pano’s of various events. They have recently captured the US by storm by capturing Fancams at a Colts NFL game, Duke Univeristy basketball game, a Celtics NBA game !! as well as the Vodacom Tri-Nations game at the FNB stadium last year. This weekend, they will be at the Daytona 500 in the US capturing what could well be the biggest FanCam ever captured.

    They were asked by U2 to capture the crowd at the concert on Sunday and as you can see below it went off brilliantly. You can check out the full pano here -> http://www.u2.com/gigapixelfancam/. Once you have found yourself you can double click on your image, and tag yourself. You can then share the image on Facebook, Twitter or Email.