Kristen Asleson This is Me

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1. 1. Dicing Up Directories

   www.gregstuart.com/Business/Pr - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/9/2007   Last Visited: 12/23/2007

   Chat is becoming a good environment for advertising, according to Kristen Asleson, vice president of strategic marketing for Mpath, the on-line game and communication technologies company.

2. 2. Narrowband on road to high-tech social scene

   www.cedmagazine.com/ced/9607/9 - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/14/2001   Last Visited: 6/14/2001

   The technology we're creating to support interactive games over the Internet will drive tremendous changes in our social fabric that will rival changes that occurred with the telephone and air travel , says Kristin Asleson , vice president of marketing for MPath Interactive , a Cupertino , Calif.-based startup which last month became the first provider to offer fast-action , multiplayer games over the Internet.
   
   MPath's capabilities spell changes in the narrowband Web environment that , like INN's and others' CD-supported graphics-rich support systems , raise the bar on what consumers might expect from someone charging $40 a month for broadband access. MPath is combining proprietary software with network support from PSINet to establish low-latency connections for fast-action community games such as Command & Conquer , a search-and-destroy game that has sold some 800 , 000 units in CD format worldwide. Players in the on-line version will be able to communicate with each other by voice as well as text , if they have a SoundBlaster card and a microphone , Asleson says.
   
   It's a very rich featured environment in which you want people to be able to communicate with each other as much as possible , Asleson explains , noting the company's latency of 150 milliseconds between a player's action and the appearance onscreen of another player's reaction is the lowest in the business so far. We have servers all across the country so that we can scale up very easily , as well as offer people a great gameplaying experience no matter where they are..
   
   Low latency is there , Louie says , noting that with response times of between 150 and 350 milliseconds , emerging multiplayer game services over the Internet do really great simulation games and can do all the strategy games..
   
   Developers welcome the advent of the cable modem , but they're skeptical of how big a role it can play over the next two years as the on-line multiplayer game business takes off. Realistically , ( cable modems ) are about three years off before people can get really excited about them , Louie says , in reference to the time it might take to build a mass market for high-speed data.