Amazing Aaron

Okay, so as some of you may know, there was a team meeting for the Xbox Live team, on the 6th of this month. During the meeting they had screens set up, and you could send in feedback about Xbox Live, and features you would like to see on Xbox Live. The tweets had to be hashtagged with #heyxboxlive to show up, and be seen by the XBL team members. Well it seems that something may have come out of this. One of the most asked for features, was a way to rate XBL games. If you head over to the Creators Club website, and check out the latest post, you will notice its entitled “Where to Find Reviews of Xbox LIVE Community Games”. basically its just a post with links to sites that review Community Channel games, but if you take a close look, you will see the following in the opening sentence.

Team XNA knows that user reviews of games on the Xbox 360 Console would be fantastic, but they don't exist, yet.

As you can see I've made bold the main word in that sentence! While I don’t think this post is talking about XBL games in general, but rather the home brewed Community Channel Games, everyone who has been following the Community Channel developments knows, its a feature that is really needed, and if they bring it to the the Community Channel, it might be on its way to XBL games as a whole! There's no way to know (unless they just come out and say it) if this was the user feedback, or just a feature they had planed all along. I do think its cool that the Xbox Live team seems to be become more open with the community, and I hope the team continues to listen to us all, and they get that new rating system up soon!

Hey everyone, just wanted to write a quick entry to let you know, I was in an article on CNN.com! It was a piece written by Lisa Respers France, on the @VoteWoz movement on Twiiter. She had seen that I won the contest, and sent me a message on twitter, asking to talk to me about it. I got in touch with her on the phone, and we talked for a few minutes about @VoteWoz, and the contest video I had made. She was really cool, and seemed to think what we where doing was great. Anyway the story is not just about me. I'm just mentioned in it. The story's about all us fans getting behind Steve Wozniak online to support him on Dancing with the Stars. Speaking of DWTS, tonight was the results show, and this time Woz got through without having to dance! I don't know how far he well get on the show, but he has already gotten pretty far, and if they keep counting all his fans votes, I'm sure he will keep on going. That is if he does not suffer anymore injures :( My Contest winning video on YouTube has been getting alot of views after the story, and the results show! I hope it keeps climbing! Maybe it will get honors? I'm also thinking about making another "Dancing like Woz" video. I'll keep you posted !

Wow, I've won 2 contest this week. For the first contest I made a video (embedded below) of me dancing like Woz for a contest. The contest was just to make a video helping promote Steve Wozniak on Dancing with the Stars. It was set up by @VoteWoz on Twitter, and the prize was an autographed iWoz book.  So I decided to dance! I could not find a pink feather boa like Woz used in his first dance, so I had to use a pink scarf instead (props to my friend West for telling me what a boa is LOL) I had a lot of fun editing it, and its already got over 100 views! I hope it gets honors! So if you have not already take a look at it,  rate it, and comment! The second contest was a lot easier. I just had to @reply on tweeter with a certain hash tag, and I won a BrightKite T-shirt! The contest was for SxSW. I can't wait to get my prizes! I'll be sure to make a video of that to!

VoteWoz also put my video on the site VoteWoz.com! Heres a pic:

Just got done watching Woz on Dancing With The Stars. I thought he did a very good job! I voted for him 13 times on abcs Dancing With The Stars page. Which is funny because that is also the score the judges gave him. It was the lowest score, but it does not mater because his fans will keep him voted to the top! The phone line to vote for Woz seemed to be jammed because all I could get is a busy signal, and I heard on twitter that Skype was down because of all the people (or devices LOL) voting for Woz. So lets keep it going! Go vote Woz, and support your fellow geek! Also I'm #4 in KY on Twitter as of today! Just thought I'd throw that in. :P

Wow, I have pretty much uploaded a video everyday of this week. Be sure and check them all out on my YouTube channel. I really enjoyed making a new Drama Journal, and I'll be sure to make a new one next week! I will also be uploading a lot of other videos next week that are yet to be made. I know one of those videos I will be making is for a small competition for votewoz.com. I will be watching Dancing with The Stars tomorrow night. Not something I normally watch, but as you know Woz is going to be on the show this season, so as a geek I am required to watch :P. I also have been doing a lot of twitting on Twitter. If you are not already, please follow me! I am trying to get to #1 in KY, for most followers! I'll see you next week!