Five things the success of Facebook chat tells us about the future.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Facebook chat has quietly conquered everyone else running chat software, almost without trying. Why did Facebook succeed at beating out dedicated services that had been in the game longer and had dedicated platforms? These days most of my chatting goes on via Facebook chat with a small minority […]

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Building structures inside of your story [Narrative Artifacts: 2 of 4]

Sometimes it is valuable to have something inside of a story that both the characters and participants can manipulate. Building an artifact that intersects with your main narrative thread is more common than you might think and very useful. The first narrative artifact-type I’d like to deal with are narrative-centric artifacts. These are narrative fragments that are internal to […]

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