By David Weinberger The title of this post is the subtitle of an article in Game Developer (March 2010) by Matthew S. Burns about the production methods used by various leading game developers. (I have no idea why I’ve started receiving copies of this magazine for software engineers in the video game indu... Mar. 13, 2010 04:09 PM EST |
By RealWire News Distribution Paris, France, March 9th, 2010: At this month's IPTV World Forum 2010, Netgem (http://www.netgem.com), a leading provider of pure-play next-generation TV experiences, will deliver its comprehensive vision of the future of IP-delivered television services and present its full range of i... Mar. 9, 2010 04:00 AM EST Reads: 261 |
By David Weinberger This week’s Berkman Buzz
Ethan Zuckerman problematizes censorship circumvention systems:
link
Chilling Effects witnesses the Microsoft/Cryptome collision:
link
Donnie Dong on China’s newest website registration requirement:
link
Has the CMLP found a new test for Section ... Feb. 26, 2010 05:18 PM EST Reads: 160 |
By Wilson Kerr  Badges, Passports, the Creator, the Founder, the Mayor, getting a Pin, picking up a raccoon..This is the language of the newest phenomenon to hit the location-enabled social media marketing world.
I am talking about Social Networking Games. No longer only for geeks and geocachers, t... Feb. 26, 2010 01:00 PM EST Reads: 622 |
By Mark R. Hinkle In a time when many tradeshows are experiencing lower then normal attendance the 8th Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 8x) had record attendance this past weekend in Los Angeles. I was there exhibiting and conducting a community training day for Zenoss and was very impressed... Feb. 23, 2010 10:27 PM EST Reads: 399 |
By RealWire News Distribution JunglePay is the new brand for txtNation's innovative plug-and-pay billing platform the Widget. The new brand reflects the fun, accessible and consumer-friendly usability of the website billing Widget.The Widget was a streamlined version of txtNation's popular payment aggregation ... Feb. 8, 2010 06:24 AM EST |
By RealWire News Distribution Partnership Addresses PCI DSS and Other Enterprise Data Protection InitiativesPalo Alto, CA and Cambridge, UK - 20 January 2010 - Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, and Voltage Security, Inc., the global leader in end-to-end data protection, announce a t... Jan. 20, 2010 03:45 AM EST Reads: 173 |
By Yehuda Berlinger This post lists new (to me) blogs since my last roundup, which was around three months ago.You may also want to check the sidebar on my blog to see if your blog was dropped from my list, which it was if it has not been updated (or contained Dec. 19, 2009 04:45 PM EST Reads: 226 |
By PR.com Newswire Las Vegas, NV, December 16, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Ethernet Extension Experts (or “E3”), designer and manufacturer of industrial ethernet extension technologies, announces the advent of the Enable-IT 324 PoE Reducer. The 324 PoE Reducer is the industry’s first and only so... Dec. 16, 2009 03:00 AM EST Reads: 122 |
By Xenia von Wedel  When VenueGen’s founder David Gardner told me that they had set up a casual corner café for a large company’s job interviews in world, I was floored. What a fascinating prospect of bringing my own cappuccino to a virtual Starbucks? Dec. 10, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 776 |
By RealWire News Distribution Mind Candy Lifts Lid on Game's Exponential Global Growth; More Than One Million New Players Joining Every MonthLONDON - Dec. 2, 2009 - Mind Candy, the UK-based developer of the children's free-to-play social online game Moshi Monsters, today announced they have hit 10 million registere... Dec. 2, 2009 05:00 AM EST Reads: 284 |
By PR.com Newswire Las Vegas, NV, November 24, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Ethernet Extension Experts (or “E3”), designer and manufacturer of industrial ethernet extension solutions, announces a sweeping upgrade to its entry-level ethernet extender, the Enable-IT 820. The Enable-IT 820 Single-Line Eth... Nov. 24, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 161 |
By RealWire News Distribution OGPlanet invites European gamers to discover the world of Lunia as it opens the doors to its second European game.London, UK, 18th November 2009 - Lunia Chronicles, a massively multiplayer online game that combines the fun of arcade gameplay with the strategies and adventures of an MMO... Nov. 18, 2009 10:20 AM EST Reads: 147 |
By PR.com Newswire Social gamers are invited to join October's monthly celebration which introduces new features to the online game and special demonic decorations in the spirit of Halloween. [PR.com - October 30, 2009] Nov. 10, 2009 10:10 PM EST |
By RealWire News Distribution The re-launching of Casino.com last month has finally solved the problem that online casino's have been facing for years. Many players are not interested in having to download software to their computers and they no longer have to. As part of a study conducted by Casino.com, it was fou... Nov. 10, 2009 04:29 AM EST Reads: 636 |
By Scott McKain We’ve heard it a million times! Attention spans are incredibly short — and for young people today, they’re even shorter. Kids don’t — or won’t — pay attention to anything. Right?
Wrong.
I realized this watching my stepson, Faron, the other n... Nov. 6, 2009 06:31 PM EST Reads: 211 |
By Aditya Banerjee Uncovering Steve Jobs' Presentation Secrets – BusinessWeek
Points from the book:
Steve Jobs does not sell computers; he sells an experience. The same holds true for his presentations that are meant to inform, educate, and entertain. An Apple presentation has all the elements ... Nov. 2, 2009 03:06 PM EST Reads: 674 |
By RealWire News Distribution SmoothWall is first vendor to offer content-based blocking of Flash-based gamesIn recent years, flash-based online games have become extremely popular. According to Comscore, online game sites pull in over a quarter (28%) of the total worldwide Internet population with the average onli... Nov. 2, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 861 |
By Yehuda Berlinger I've been counting down the days to see Rachel on Facebook. For those that don't have me in their Facebook feed, here is how the last 84 days went:84 days to go83 days to go82 days to go81 days80 days Nov. 1, 2009 11:47 AM EST Reads: 510 |
By Xenia von Wedel  Today is finally the day that Umoo tournaments is coming out of private beta and into the public arena. I can now set up my own tournaments with a larger crowd, maybe I can push the magic “Invite my Facebook friends button’. Currently, I mostly play Fun games, without any entry fee tha... Oct. 29, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,590 |
By Yehuda Berlinger I received the following email:I found your name searching for a board game designer in Israel. My kids and I are working on a board game that is probably not ready to be evaluated. I wanted to know how much you would charge to sit Oct. 27, 2009 11:17 AM EDT Reads: 162 |
By RealWire News Distribution Gartner ITXPO in Cannes will see the first ever public, fully immersive telepresence capability demonstrated in EuropeLONDON, UK - Oct. 27, 2009 - Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, and Easynet Global Services have ... Oct. 27, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 264 |
By Yehuda Berlinger This guide includes games for young and old, for every sex, generation, temperament, and culture.Whatever you do, and whatever you celebrate, there is no better way to spend a Christmas, Hanukkah, or what have you than together with friends, Oct. 26, 2009 12:46 PM EDT Reads: 456 |
By Yehuda Berlinger I recently posted my 2000th post on this site, and I have gifts for you, as usual.Thank you for reading and commenting, for linking and discussing. Without you, I'm just another fool writing to himself in cyberspace. Thanks to you, I am Oct. 14, 2009 03:52 AM EDT Reads: 141 |
By RealWire News Distribution The Economist’s Innovation Award for Consumer Products and Services given to pioneer Steven Sasson of Eastman Kodak Company for contributions to photography and imaging which have revolutionised the face of consumer photography today.
The invention of the digital camera began... Oct. 5, 2009 07:47 AM EDT Reads: 163 |
By Jennifer Moebius House MD, one of the most popular television shows in the US and globally, is a weekly medical mystery where a patient with a rare and unsolvable disease is diagnosed by Dr. Gregory House – the title character. Dr. House is a brilliant diagnostician who can solve almost any medical pu... Oct. 5, 2009 12:31 AM EDT Reads: 113 |
By Yehuda Berlinger I maintain a comprehensive list of all English board and card game related blogs and podcasts on the internet, so far as I know. To be on this list, a site must:- Have an RSS feed- Have been updated in the last 3 months, unless a post Oct. 3, 2009 04:23 PM EDT Reads: 199 |
By Yehuda Berlinger Sep. 17, 2009 03:18 PM EDT Reads: 180 |
By Dave Haynes Boston-area startup Frame Media is now calling itself Thinking Screen Media, and broadening its field of play from just wireless picture frames to go after what it sees as a rich marketplace of screens driven by non-PC, Internet-connected devices like IP TVs and game consoles.Reports ... Sep. 8, 2009 04:37 AM EDT Reads: 213 |
By Yehuda Berlinger  Microsoft releases a version of an operating system. Then they work at it making it better and release an update. And so on. Microsoft is still selling Windows, but Windows today is not the same Windows from 1990.
Some board games also evolve internally, or are adapted and developed... Aug. 4, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 771 |
By Jennifer Moebius  They just don’t make video games like they used to. The same can be said for gaming bugs.
Not long ago, I watched The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a quasi-documentary about the rivalry between two gaming “legends” competing for the high score in Nintendo’s 1981 version of Do... Jul. 31, 2009 05:56 PM EDT Reads: 910 |
By Andrew Mathew If your a gaming freak, then the Sony Ericsson Aino is a must have gadget for you. This handset comes embedded with motion, 3D and Java games. It is a trendy looking phone which comes in the dimensions of 104 x 50 x 15.5 mm. You can easily carry this device in your back pocket [...] Jul. 29, 2009 02:42 AM EDT Reads: 277 |
By Yehuda Berlinger AnagramsYael is a friend of mine and my wife's for multiple reasons. She's brilliant, beautiful, creative, and charismatic. She recently published a fantastic book Jul. 25, 2009 05:54 PM EDT Reads: 248 |
By Yehuda Berlinger The latest Jerusalem Strategy Gaming Club session report is up. Games played: San Juan, R-Eco, Stone Age, Caylus, Dominion, Antike.I win both Caylus and Antike. Yay me. Abraham Jul. 23, 2009 04:18 AM EDT Reads: 122 |
By Yehuda Berlinger The latest Jerusalem Strategy Gaming Club session report is up. Games played: R-Eco, It's Alive, Year of the Dragon, Apples to Apples, Dominion, Tichu.Nadine thinks she's losing Jul. 16, 2009 05:10 AM EDT Reads: 111 |
By Farshid Ketabchi  I briefly mentioned hashtags in my previous post as a special application of tagging in Twitter (www.twitter.com) and numerous other Twitter-related sites. In this write-up I cover hashtags in more detail.
Hashtags are special tags defined as # that one can use as part of a 140 char... Jun. 30, 2009 01:40 AM EDT Reads: 152 |
By Yehuda Berlinger The latest Jerusalem Strategy Gaming Club session report is up. Games played: Magic: the Gathering, Stone Age, Amyitis, Pentago x 7 or 8, Dominion, Bridge.A Pentago-fanatic Jun. 24, 2009 05:31 PM EDT Reads: 103 |
By Bobby McDonald This podcast introduces Vaco Raleigh’s newest division, Vaco Design. In the podcast, Troy Knight, director of the design and media division, discusses Vaco Design’s ability to build custom solutions for professional services and fill positions for high-level professionals in the... Jun. 16, 2009 02:48 PM EDT |
By Yehuda Berlinger The latest Jerusalem Strategy Gaming Club session report is up. Games played: Mr Jack, Dominion, Boggle, Tichu, Agricola, Cosmic Encounter, Traders of Carthage.I handily win Jun. 11, 2009 12:14 PM EDT |
By Yehuda Berlinger An interesting thing about video games: many don't tell you all the rules.I noticed this curiosity when a web game developer asked me to preview his online "board game". The game is played on a limited grid. The player gets five actions each Jun. 10, 2009 04:34 PM EDT Reads: 183 |
Subscribe to Game Developer on Ulitzer Email News Alerts
Subscribe via RSS
Ulitzer content is offered under Creative Commons "Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives" License.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get written permission from Ulitzer, Inc., the copyright holder.
Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.