One of the interesting things that has popped-up on Facebook are the new “social video” and “social reader” applications. While I always like to go into external news sites to read good articles, I’m not a fan of installing additional apps just to read something with the future risk of spamming my friends with
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Summer in Seattle means it’s time to start taking advantage of the sun and going out to ride my bike. I don’t feel safe riding in traffic here in Seattle. Some cyclists have been killed in nearby South Lake Union near Amazon, and there just aren’t enough clear bicycle lanes. Portland and the Netherlands seem
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Kinect Star Wars has been one of my most anticipated titles ever since it was announced. I remember playing the arcade version of Star Wars Trilogy wielding a light saber and slashing Boba Fett across the chest and dooming him to a painful end. Well, so this is what I this we are all expecting It
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I already posted about the 8-bit Google Maps, so here is the summary from some of the other good pranks from yesterday. On the whole, Google as a company completely won this year’s April fools. xkcd Randall Munroe rocked it last year with the xkcd bash shell, but this year he went with customizations based
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…well there’s still a day to see what else comes up on the interweb but right now Google Maps is #WINNING! I could swear they did this mode sometime in the past, but I can’t remember. What is definitely new is the addition of the 8-bit characters and the awesome YouTube Video! So go to
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Today Rovio came to town and are promoting Angry Birds Space with new merchandise including a National Geographic Book launching at #1 on Amazon National Geographic Angry Birds Space: A Furious Flight Into the Final Frontier Here are some shots from this morning’s event. The initial setup and folks waiting in line for merch. Amy E. Briggs, Senior
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A: YES Yes, I bought the Hunger Games on Amazon Kindle. Yes, I did like the story. Yes, I enjoyed the characters. Yes, I look forward to the movie. Yes, I felt it was a rip-off of Battle Royale. I hope the author of Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, would say, “My inspiration for the
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So typically the first half of GDC is less attended than the second half. This should be wall-to-wall people starting Wednesday, but I had friends to see and meetings to make, so I came early. Moscone North is already setup for GDC… … and already setup for Apple’s announcement today. So like SXSW, the
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The ridiculously huge international mobile hit Angry Birds has made it to Facebook. Peter Vesterbacka, CMO of Rovio, had stated at Casual Connect that there was real excitement when they hit the first 100 million installs, with less excitement at 200 million and then less at 300 million and so on. I’m guessing however that
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and That is All Right! PINTEREST Pinterest is being reported as the latest hot site that has had explosive growth. Pinterest is a collection of links to external sites fronted by rich content thumbnails, and currently women are the core audience. In the ‘About‘ section of Pinterest they self-identify themselves as: Pinterest lets you organize
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