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Dear
Craig:
Welcome
to CN Consulting's "Cocktail Talk".
Cocktail Talk is a casual monthly newsletter
intended to arm you with amusing bits and bytes of information on
whats happening in the computer world. Topics sure to break the ice
and capture an audience at many a social or business event.
Cocktail
Talk is archived on www.cnci.us
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Currently, on Cocktail Talk - The Good, the Bad and
the Ugly.
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 The Pokemon Go "augmented reality game"
launched less than a month ago, has been downloaded 75 million
times, and has been called a global sensation.
Download the app, create a little avatar and walk
around staring at it on your phone until one of 250 cartoon
"Pocket Monsters" pops up on your radar. Using your
phone's camera you see the monsters in your reality. Then by
hitting them with a ball you capture them.
There's a buzz that people are already tired of
Pokemon Go; that it's run it's course. It may have, Nintendo
stock went from $15 to over $38 when it launched, but dropped back
to $25 in a matter of days.
Pokemon Go uses a lot of the technology seen in an
earlier augmented reality game called Ingress. Ingress had
players bouncing around looking for portals, in Pokemon it's
PokeStops. Oddly they're some in the same, and if you want to know
where PokeStops are you should browse the Ingress maps database.
That's the result of the Ingress player's community finding and
recording portals.
You can do more than just catch Pokemon, like buy
things to help you catch more, teach them to fight, and advance
through levels in the game. Trying
to collect different monsters is about as far as most people are
willing to go.
A good thing is people may actually go out for walk
and visit PokeStops, often local churches, banks, libraries and
such.
A bad thing is people getting shot at when they jump
someone's fence in the middle of the night looking for a Pokemon.
Robbers, rapists, and pedophiles are also using
PokeStops to troll for victims, and that's ugly.
Pokemon, Ingress, Niantic, Nintendo, the Good, the
Bad, and the Ugly, or not, that's your call, and that's Cocktail
Talk.
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Thank you for
reading,
Craig Phillips
CN Consulting,
Inc.
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CN
Consulting, Inc - www.cnci.us
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