*One Degree: OK, let’s cover the basics first so people know what the heck “One Red Paperclip”:http://www.oneredpaperclip.com is. Who are you, what is One Red Paper Clip and how did this all get started?*
Kyle MacDonald. 26. From Vancouver. Live in Montreal. one red paperclip is my quest to make a series of up trades from one red paperclip for a house. I started with one red paperclip on July 12th last year after I realized I didn’t have enough cash for a down payment on a house. I saw the red paperclip on my desk and decided to see if I could trade it for something bigger or better. I traded it for a pen shaped like a fish. Then I traded that for a doorknob. Then the doorknob for a coleman stove. After nine trades, I’m up to a recording contract at MetalWorks studios in Toronto.
*One Degree: You’ve done an amazing job of integrating Web 2.0 tools into One Red Paperclip. I see “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us, “MySpace”:http://www.myspace.com, “Flickr”:http://www.flickr.com, “YouTube”:http://www.youtube.com, “Feedburner”:http://www.feedburner.com, “Odeo”:http://www.odeo.com, “Gmail”:http://mail.google.com, and “Google AdSense”:http://adsense.google.com. How has the availability of these tools impacted what you are doing with One Red Paperclip?*
Month: March 2006
Have you heard of “Spore”:http://www.spore.com – the new game from Will Wright, creator of SimCity and the Sims? The PC game won’t be released for at least another 1 1/2 years but right now I’m pretty sure it is the best video game ever made.
How can I say this? Well, I’ve seen Will Wright walk-through and talk-through what Spore is in both a “one hour presentation”:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-262774490184348066 from the 2005 Games Developer Conference and an edited 35 minute version.
Here, watch it:
I’m still getting my head around “micro-chunking”:http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/11/the_future_of_m.html as a marketing strategy but I think there is something _really_ big here.
5 Days Of 5 Questions
Published March 17, 2006
Make sure to check One Degree every day next week as we’ll be featuring one new Five Questions interview each day.
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