Portable Open Persona

On the nintendo wii you are represented by a character known as a Mii -- a little avatar that represents yourself. It has a cartoonish appearance, reminiscent of those WeeMee characters I've seen around.

Here's the clever bit:

This same avatar can be taken from one game to another, and even from one Wii console to another.

Extending this idea...

'Doekman' on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:39:54 GMT, sez:

I heard 37signals have an OpenID implementation for one of their apps.

'Michael Buckbee' on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:07:44 GMT, sez:

Extending your extended idea one step further, I actually run a service that creates real life figures of Mii's with a rapid prototyping machine:

http://www.fabjectory.com

As to OpenID, checkout this Google Trends chart of it's use (a very rough proxy):

http://www.google.com/trends?q=openid

Apparently, it's getting huge traction in Russia. This actually kind of makes sense as OpenID was first put in LiveJournal (which has a massive Russian user base).

Thanks,

Mike

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'Brian Reischl' on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:50:36 GMT, sez:

So why does your Mii look like Michael Jackson?

'Magnus M' on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:19:23 GMT, sez:

Brian...

The answer to that one is obvious. Think of the primary target market for the Mii. I'm thinking 8-14 year old boys.

MM.

'lb' on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:46:23 GMT, sez:

>why does your Mii look like Michael Jackson?

sorry about that... i took a mii image off images.google.com -- and i thought it was a white woman... only later realised the likeness to whacko jacko.

and thanks for the pedomessage mm...

lb

'David Grant' on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:49:19 GMT, sez:

The broken glass sound effect at the end of the Rejected Wii Games video sounds suspiciously like the "operation aborted" sound in TortoiseCVS.

'Jon Blackmore' on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:18:18 GMT, sez:

Extending the idea... we could save money in the UK by giving everyone a Wii remote, and setting them up with their own lookalike Mii. This would be a lot cheaper than the pointless identity card scheme that our government is planning to spend our taxes on. It would probably do as much for security too.

'Ed' on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:38:05 GMT, sez:

http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2007/08/openid-great-id.html

Perhaps these are reasons why you haven't heard anything about OpenID

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