Kotaku
We've mentioned Jason Rohrer's weird little works before, in the form of Passage and Gravitation; now with his 'Game Design Sketchbook' column at the Escapist, he puts up new little games monthly. This month features the theme of life, death, and immortality (appropriately called Immortality): We generally assume that imm (Read More)
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Gamasutra has an interesting interview up with some of PopCap's people — co-founder John Vechey, CEO David Roberts and PR director Garth Chouteau — talking about the PopCap model and structure and the casual market at large. It's a reasonably lengthy interview with a couple of gems contained within: It is very (Read More)
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Online Games
Escape of Kitten Narsa is a new point and click escape the room game from the creator of Heart Escape, Escape From Rooftop Sakura Flutters, Rainbow Escape, and Escape From Room of Hesitation games.Good Luck!Play Escape of Kitten NarsaEscape of Kitten Narsa Walkthrough:1. Click the shelf under the strawberry teapot and get t (Read More)
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MEDIAdeluge
With all the downtime problems Twitter has been experiencing lately, it could be just a matter of time before there is a mass exodus to another service. My guess is it wouldn’t take much to trigger the exodus — at least among the early-adopting tech crowd. Because the microblogging space is so nascent, a departure of even a (Read More)
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: I've been testing plurk out and highly enjoying the experience. Plurk lacks in the extensibility of twitter, but I suspect that's something that can be worked around.
: LAME-O! Plurk has decided to forbid people and also highly recommend against the things I find very helpful about Twitter! Twitter does have problems, but one of the things I like about it, is it's ability to connect me with like-minded (ie techie) people. Plurk has no search feature to help me connect, and advises "Only add people who are your good buddies. Don't add people you met for 3 minutes at a party." Dudes! Your missing the point!
: Interesting UI. I'm game to trying new social apps. The problem though is that they don't give me any instant gratification unless I patiently hang out over there and create my friends' network. Hope the recent initiatives like friend connect etc goes mainstream soon.
ReadWriteWeb
There was a time when only technically-savvy people knew how to create content and publish it to the internet, but the rise of easy-to-use blogging and CMS systems changed that. Today, everyone can be a publisher. Now, Iceberg wants to bring that same democratization to programming. In fact, that's their vision for Web 3.0 (Read More)
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Plurk, the latest lifestreaming service to make the rounds, certainly has one thing going for it - a sense of humor, albeit an odd one. The site is currently riding a wave of new registrations due to a mention from Leo Laporte, but is it worth your time or is it just another Twitter clone with a prettier UI?This is a guest (Read More)
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MEDIAdeluge
Death by a thousand cuts seems to be the way Twitter will surrender its lead position in the increasingly competitive microblogging space. A strong competitor has yet to emerge and eat Twitter’s lunch, although FriendFeed and johnny-come-lately Plurk are gaining traction. Pownce and Jaiku too are waiting in the wings. Regar (Read More)
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: Blaming Twitter for scaling in popularity beyond the tolerance of its architecture seems somewhat foolish. They are working on the problem. Wait and see if they do fix it before you pass judgement on the service.
: Geek Mommy nails it. Twitter, we love you and don't want to leave you, but you seem to almost be pushing us away. just tell us what we want to hear and we'll stay... for a while. You're right, Twitter is in dire need of some communications counsel. They got a bit more transparent with the cause of the downtime and issues they were/are having, but that is not enough. Twitter, treat us like you like us. Tell us when you're having a problem, let us know what the plan is. reassure us.
: Isn't it the way things go since the Twitter's primary community is made up of early adopters? New services more innovative keep making up the Web trends and though geeks keep it moving, testing, etc.
ReadWriteWeb
Recently, there have been a few conflicting reports about the current popularity of social networks here in the U.S. On one hand, you have reports that point toward the growth of social networks and their continuing crossover into mainstream use. On the other hand, recently released stats on visitor data show that these net (Read More)
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LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, is dull by design. Unlike Facebook and MySpace, the site is aimed at career-minded, white-collar workers, people who join more for the networking than the social. (Read More)
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CreativeTechs Tips
Welcome to our special iPhone tips edition. This Monday in San Francisco, Steve Jobs is kicking off Apple's World Wide Developer Conference with a keynote that should unveil Apple's new second-generation iPhone.If you find yourself with a hankerin' to start designing the next big iPhone gadget, we'd like to direct you to a (Read More)
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