PacManhattan Like it sounds -- PacMan recreated on the Manhattan street grid, with teams coordinating using cell phones, Wifi and GPS. Done by my colleague Frank Lantz and the folks in his Big Games class at ITP. Frank == genius, and ITP is on fire these days. ObObservation: When people ask me why social software isn't just 'online communities' under a new name, I used to offer some complex answer about linking the study of online communities and computer-supported collaborative work under a rubric of computer-mediated communication specifically targeting group interaction. Dull, no? Now I just say "Blowback" -- our tools are doubling back to affect the real world. The principal site of important social software these days is offline, as with the back-channel or MeetUp or Bass-Station or dodgeball. And now, PacManhattan.