Just Tripping Along The Freakazoid

Well, the google Niantic Project is going strong and seems to have more coming.  A lot has happened just in this last month of full on launch.  There was a massive shift in the ARG about half way into the month when Google released Ingress - www.ingress.com  it made a huge split and created a new wave of "players" many of these however were not interested in the ARG or backstory (some in chat have said that very thing) but just the Ingress video game app - it was fascinating to watch the IRC channel change from the puzzle solving and chatting to the new audience of gamers - there was such a difference... it was, odd and a definite people watching moment to see the shifts and changes. It looks like this project has no signs of stopping, a second month timeline at www.nianticproject.com looks to be starting tomorrow. Plus in this article -  http://allthingsd.com/20121115/google-launches-ingress-a-worldwide-mobile-alternate-reality-game/  J. Hanke, the head ...

As mentioned, have been following this ARG or more that somehow is Google related and who knows what else.  One item that has come up is how all these different people and communities have sprung up working to solve the codes and puzzles and brainstorm.  Making for a fierce collective.  Some of the in game characters have even been referencing some of the collections and IRC chats and so on). In fact, something the one character said got me to thinking.  There are so many communities that have been springing up.  Some more active and "fast" than others.  It is neat watching the different communities and how they are structured, their pace and so on. That said, it also made me think how if we all tried to stream to the one IRC chat or the one wiki - would that be a case of putting all our eggs in one basket? What is someone hacks the main wiki or something goes wrong with the IRC?  Is all our data and knowledge and solutions lost?  Backups, mirro...

I am soooooo behind in my blogs and posting and projects (thank you real life and Sandy megastorm and Nor'Easter and...) But just caught wind of this Niantic Project and you might wanna check it - looks cool - and yes, I am bias as I like Google -  http://www.argn.com/2012/11/google_niantic_project_smartphone_portals/ - great article by Michael Anderson Will explore and report back this weekend - this is a good wiki and resource to track what is going on -  http://niantic.schlarp.com/ Other places to check reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/NIANTIC/  and  http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/12u9ih/google_this_is_getting_pretty_weird_the_niantic/  unforum discussion -  http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36434 map with some of the locations marked -  https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=203685585566952099382.0004cd94033b5f5265661 http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1222933 ...