January 2009
49 posts
Governor Patrick Tours CIC (Xconomy) →
fareed: Quick Hit Signs NFL Star, Raises $8... →
Jason Kincaid:
Play Hard Sports has spent the last 9 months developing a rich new Flash-based football game that puts generic Flash games to shame, featuring detailed graphics, intricate…
nabeel: PopCap Games’ retail revenues up 85... →
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LBP _ Electronic Beat Sequencer for LBP ! Little... →
dan: Ways to make your virtual space more social →
Raph: I’ve said before that socialization requires downtime, by which I mean that people who are busy pressing a bunch of other buttons or busy watching a dozen different colored bars have…
Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech... →
adam: probably the best website on the internet if... →
david: Spandau Ballet Sits and Starts Singing... →
Kieron Gillen:
The mysterious Bill sends this to us this, though worries it may prompt “Old” comments from the thread. We fear not people who say Old, because we have the delete function.
really neat →
zelda bling →
a waste of time →
snuggies: the best ad ever →
Billy: Icanhazcheezburger starting a contest for... →
adam: ui epic fail →
Billy: Board game convention on Feb 7th in... →
LastFm Hackday
Last Fm invited the public to an event to make sweet apps using their API. The winner from this is called StaffWars and looks pretty bad ass. http://www.last.fm/group/Hack+Day
fareed: iMafia, a social game for iPhone with new... →
Dean Takahashi: Social games have taken off on networks like Facebook, and now mobile platforms like the iPhone. One of the newest examples is the iMafia game from PlayMesh, which has…
nabeel: Poll Everywhere →
: Use SMS and web to get live poll results from your audience during a talk. Easy to set up, features live charts that embed in PPT and the web.
damon: Video games linked to poor relationships →
(author unknown): Shared by Damon
it’s from brigham young university, take it with a grain of agnosticism.
Study shows gamers more likely to drink, smoke weed, ignore friends
langer: In My Eyes →
(author unknown):
hubball: Hi5’s virtual entertainment plans could...
VentureBeat - Because Facebook is the largest, fastest-growing network in the world>, a big question is what other social networks are going to do to compete. Hi5>, with approximately 60 million monthly unique visitors, is in the process of making itself an “immersive social environment” that includes virtual goods, avatars, games, instant messaging and a 3-D world geared at...
fareed: IMVU raises $10 million for its virtual... →
Dean Takahashi: IMVU, an operator of virtual rooms for teens and young adults, said today it has raised $10 million in a fourth round of funding.
The round was led by Best Buy…
langer: Jason Chan →
Dmitry:
Zombie playground, by Jason Chan.
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dan: US Democracy Server: Patch Day →
Sean Hyde-Moyer: US Democracy Server: Patch Day
Version 44.0
President
Leadership: Will now scale properly to national crises. Intelligence was not being properly applied.
A bug has been fixed…
fareed: Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code →
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Instead of talking about stuff, build stuff!
The point of this story, I think, is that you should consider spending less time talking, and more time…
langer: Propeller →
today and tomorrow - pieter:
The cheap CMOS sensor of an iPhone does not expose the whole thing at once, it scans from left to right. If you take a picture of something that moves very fast…
fareed: iPod touch M110 sniper rifle: another... →
Thomas Ricker:
Beautiful and Creative Examples of Vibrant Web...
via seth: http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/beautiful-and-creative-examples-of-vibrant-web-designs/
DanceDanceRevolution now on the iPhone →
MMOG from Cartoon Network
*Cartoon Network* officially launched its first browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) - FusionFall- after an extended beta phase that drew more than 2.5 million users. The game, co developed with Grigon Entertainment, allows players to create their own avatars to battle alongside friends and more than 50 characters from Cartoon Network Shows, including Ben 10 Alien Force,...
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new social networking site
It’s a new user review based social networking site. I might have time to try out the beta… . http://www.lunch.com/
The Video Game: Is It Art?
A long read but well worth it. Intensely thoughtful criticism on narrative, accessibility/barriers of entry, user creativity, and challenges. He may drop the “simulacrum” bomb, but then again it wouldn’t be the London Review of Books if he hadn’t. - Langer Is it Art? by John Lanchester http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/lanc01_.html
nabeel: Can Guitar Hero Help Save the Music... →
: Lot’s of meaty stats from Edery on the impact of music games on the industry
Music Games for iPhone Give Artists New Spotlight →
langer: The Thing About Security →
Alex Payne: Last week, Twitter, the thing I work on, had some security issues. Earlier in the week a phishing attack started going around. Then, someone used a dictionary attack to grab…
fareed: Virtual goods making money for Zynga, but... →
Eric Eldon: Social networking applications generally aren’t known for making tens of millions of dollars. But Zynga, a company that makes casual games for sites like Facebook and…
nabeel: A new blog for music fans: Loudcrowd →
Nabeel Hyatt: One of the consistent bits of overwhelmingly positive feedback about the closed Beta over at Loudcrowd has been the music. I’ve personally experienced this as well. I’m listening to a…
nabeel: Virtual Worlds News: Twin Skies Cancels 3D... →
: Twin Skies, the new project from the creators of Neopets, has binned its plans for now to create a 3D virtual world that users could connect to through a variety of lighter weight 2D applications….
Loudcrowd In Semi-Public Beta
Loudcrowd, the first title from Conduit Labs, has quietly moved into public beta. Or, at least, the possibly private beta is publicly available at beta.loudcrowd.com and linked to from Loudcrowd’s new music blog. We first heard about Loudcrowd, an avatar-based rhythm game with virtual goods and social networking components, in its private alpha mode over the summer, but now you can give it a...
nabeel: A new blog for music fans: Loudcrowd →
Nabeel Hyatt: One of the consistent bits of overwhelmingly positive feedback about the closed Beta over at Loudcrowd has been the music. I’ve personally experienced this as well. I’m listening to a…
fuck you, penguin. →
fareed: Encouraged Commentary |... →
(author unknown):
really great blog on the art direction of... →
fareed: 5 Music Startups to Watch in 2009 | Sachin... →
(author unknown): Sachin Rekhi’s blog on technology, entrepreneurship, and product management.
josh: 10 music games for the iphone →
nabeel: Overnight success takes a long time →
: some thoughts on gmail and friendfeed
fareed: Six Reasons Your Web Startup Will Fail... →
Robin Wauters: Any entrepreneur will tell you it’s quite a thrill to start and grow companies, foster ideas and turn them into products people want to use, start a community and see it thrive,…