Happening Tomorrow: Where 2.0 webcast on mapping, mobile, and local trends – A Free Live Event at 10am PT

March 9, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.In this webcast, moderated by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media, you’ll hear from the following:
Diann Eisnor of Waze will discuss the creation of realtime mapping data sets.
Joe Stump of SimpleGeo will discuss tying mobile services to webservices.
Kara Nortman of CitySearch will discuss local data trends online.
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IntelliJ Idea9 ActionScript 3/Flex Workflow Part 2

March 9, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Welcome to part 2 of my IntelliJ Idea 9 ActionScript 3/Flex workflow series. If you followed part 1 you should have a HelloWorldProject setup along with a HelloWorld module. Now it is time to learn how to compile our SWF and go over the other core features [...]

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The state of open government in Canada – David Eaves on Canada’s open government success stories and the folly of non-beta thinking

March 9, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.David Eaves, a public policy entrepreneur and a speaker at this week’s Gov 2.0 International online conference, discusses the rise of open government in Canada’s cities. He also looks at the country’s federal inertia, and he explains how a beta mindset could benefit government projects.
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Four short links: 9 March 2010 – Cooperation is Catching, 3D Visualisation Tool, News Dump, and Fighting Censorship

March 9, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Cooperative Behaviour Spreads Through a Group, But So Does Cheating (Not Exactly Rocket Science) — Fowler and Christakis suggest that people tend to mimic the actions of those they played with. They could be directly imitating the actions of other players, or they could be looking out [...]

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Mobile phones and smartphones are not the same thing

March 9, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Comparing a basic mobile phone to a spiffy new smartphone is like comparing a circa-1993 desktop computer to a Macbook Pro. They’re related in a basic sense, but the discrepancies are immense. Arthur Attwell, co-founder and CEO of Electric Book Works, expands on the divide between mobile [...]

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Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games

March 9, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Gamasutra:
“Valve will release a version of its Steam digital distribution service for Mac next month, along with Mac-native versions of its own games, the company confirmed today after days of hints — and owners of Valve games will have [...]

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Game Devs Only Use PhysX For the Money, Says AMD

March 9, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.arcticstoat writes “AMD has just aimed a shot at Nvidia’s PhysX technology, saying that most game developers only implement GPU-accelerated PhysX for the money. AMD’s Richard Huddy explained that ‘Nvidia creates a marketing deal with a title, and then as part of that marketing deal, they have [...]

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Ubisoft’s Authentication Servers Go Down

March 8, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.ZuchinniOne writes “With Ubisoft’s fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that [...]

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Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game

March 8, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget:
“Microsoft’s Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and [...]

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WoW U.I. Mod Review – Underachiever at Ten Ton Hammer

March 8, 2010

Another recommended post on World of Warcraft

Impress even the pickiest raid leader with your achievements by “faking it”
Underachiever is an add on for World of Warcraft that claims to allow
the user to be able to not only link, but claim false credit for any
achievement imaginable.By Mem

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WoW – To Buff, or to Nerf: That is the Question at Ten Ton Hammer

March 8, 2010

Another recommended post on World of Warcraft

Is it better to Buff or Nerf a class in order to achieve balance?
The nerfing and buffing of classes is a near constant in World of
Warcraft.By Mem

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Xbox Live Now Allows Gender Expression

March 6, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.Last year we discussed news that an Xbox Live gamer was banned for identifying herself as a lesbian on her profile. Microsoft said at the time that nothing sexual in nature could appear in Gamertags or profiles. Now, they seem to have reconsidered their stance, and they’ve [...]

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Sony Patents Game Demos With Feature Erosion

March 6, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.MojoKid writes “When a game developer releases a demo, it’s typically intended to entice players into first trying and then purchasing the full version. This is the stuff of Game Design 101 for most of us, but a crack team of cutting-edge gaming researchers at Sony have [...]

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Valve Announces Portal 2

March 6, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.eldavojohn writes “Enough rumors, Portal 2 is due out for 2010. Valve also let users know through an announcement on Steam. Game Informer seems to be the de facto provider of Portal 2 information so far. Prepare yourselves for more aperture science! Notice anything funny about the [...]

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The Most Painful Toy Hack

March 6, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.wintersynth writes “We hacked a toy brainwave reader to electrocute people if their brainwave frequency got too high (by concentrating). We took outputs off of the 5 level LED indicator, put the outputs through a transistor/resistor/relay circuit to give 2 levels of high voltage through an electric [...]

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Register now for our Gov 2.0 Online Conference – A Free Live Event – March 11 @ 9am PT

March 6, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Gov 2.0 Online Conference — Gov 2.0 International: Global Innovation Meeting Local Challenges. Gov 2.0 is a worldwide revolution, you don’t want to miss this event. The agenda includes: Beyond Borders: Improving Global Diplomacy and Citizen Empowerment with Gov 2.0, Open Government in Canada, Israel Gov 2.0: [...]

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Free Book Samplers! – Designing Great iPhone Apps, Being Geek, Power Your House, Your Money, and more.

March 6, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Check out our free PDF book samplers from these new and upcoming books:
Tap Happy: Designing Great iPhone Apps
Being Geek
Power Your House
Personal Investing: The Missing Manual
Your Money: The Missing Manual
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MySQL migration and risk management – Database expert Ronald Bradford on the pros and cons of migrating from Oracle to MySQL

March 6, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Ronald Bradford has been guiding DBAs through key aspects of database integration for years. In this Q&A, he discusses the pros and cons of migrating from Oracle to MySQL (hint: it’s not just about cost savings). He also weighs in on how Oracle’s acquisition of Sun will [...]

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Four short links: 5 March 2010 – GMail CRM, Django Best Practices, Stats-Think, and WoW Number Crunching

March 6, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Rapportive — a simple social CRM built into Gmail. They replace the ads in Gmail with photos, bio, and info from social media sites. (via ReadWrite Web)
Best Practices in Web Development with Django and Python — great set of recommendations. (via Jon Udell’s article on checklists)
These and [...]

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#Ebook Deal of the Day: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99! Use code DDHAD

March 6, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.“Hadoop: The Definitive Guide” for only $9.99. Use discount code DDHAD to get your savings!…
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