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Silverlight game popularity on MiniClip.com
2008-03-26 06:23:00 The Zombomatic 3000 game which Terralever created for MiniClip.com using Silverlight is currently the third most popular game on the MiniClip.com site. More About: Programming , Games , Game , Popularity
A unified feed for Facebook Notes
2008-03-22 18:12:00 If you’re a Facebook user and you have more than once blog, you’ve likely noticed there’s no solution to having Facebook’s Notes functionality consume more than one RSS feed to display with your profile. A simple solution is to aggregate all your feeds into a single source, and then provide that RSS feed to Notes. I’ve ... More About: Social Networking , Content , Feed
Er. Where’d the posts about Mac’s and online marketing go?
2008-02-04 20:53:00 Since the middle of last year, all posts about the Mac/Apple have been published directly on my new(er) Macintosh-specific blog, On a Mac. I also recently started a new online marketing blog - Online Marketing Performance. These blogs were started as they held two of the main themes on this blog which were intertwined with a lot of posts of a fairly random nature. I’ll continue to post to this blog, but both of the aforementioned blogs will likely bet getting more and more attention as time goes on. AdSense, Advertising, AdWords, Affilliate Programs, Analytics, Apple, Apple TV, Beacon, Black Hat SEO, Blog Promotion, Blogging, Branding, Design of Experiments, Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Platform, Facebook Platform Architecture, FBML, Google, Google Analytics, Google Labs, Google Website Optimizer, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Mac, MacBook Pro, Macintosh, Make Money Online, Monetization, Multi level Marketing, Multivariate Testing, Online Marketing , Page Rank, PageRank,... More About: Posts
Terralever Silverlight 1.0 game on Miniclip.com
2008-02-04 18:21:00 Last year Terralever took on the challenge of creating a game with Silverlight . In doing so, our overall goal was to release something compelling that coincided with Silverlight’s public coming-out party; establishing that casual gaming was a viable usage of the Silverlight platform. That game was called Zero Gravity, and it received a warm welcome from both casual gamers and the development community. Zombomatic Swap the conductors to connect them into a path for the electricity to flow. Play this free game now!! A few months ago Terralever was again approached with a Silverlight game design and developement challenge: Create a casual/twitch game for Miniclip.com utilizing Silverlight 1.0. To be clear, Silverlight has evolved. The Silverlight team has released a more advanced Silverlight plug-in which allows far more flexibility in development. That said, Miniclip wasn’t looking to leverage that version of the plug-in. The game would need to be built with for t... More About: Game
FNN: The Facebook News Network
2007-12-18 18:21:00 If you have a Facebook account, you’ll get a good laugh out of this elevation of a Facebook News Feed to a News broadcast. Facebook, News Feed, Social Media, Social Network ing , Video Share This
Penny for your thoughts? $10 for?
2007-12-17 23:30:00 For whatever reason I keep stumbling across sites this week which are willing to pay visitors to help build their content base. The latest: Today I came across Epinions’ “10 for 10 Promotion ” which is currently offering $10 for every 10 product/service reviews (I bet you saw that coming). How are they combatting automagic spam junk? ... More About: Reviews , Make Money Online , Thoughts , Content
Quick Hit: Facebook and Google this? Facebook and Google that?
2007-12-13 07:33:00 Googling Facebook Facebook previously announced the availability of limited profile data to search engines. I’ve checked here and there and hadn’t seen any evidence, but Facebook profile data is now definitely being returned (by Google at least). A search for “Scott McAndrew” (yeah, that’s vain, I know) shows the Google result to be a ... More About: Programming , Social Networking , Space , Online Marketing
PhizzPop LA 2008 reflections 1: The problem statement
2007-12-11 07:30:00 To reiterate a previous post, Terralever participated in the Los Angeles PhizzPop Design Challenge last week. The challenge has come and gone, and the disorientation of working three-and-a-half days with very little sleep is finally wearing off. In the end, Terralever’s solution was not the winning one. Honors and congratulations go to Cynergy Systems for their winning entry. The list of participating companies included: Blitz! Cynergy Systems iCrossing Sapient Schematic speakTECH Terralever PhizzPop Judges included: Bill Scott, Director UI Engineering, Netflix Lou Carbone, Experience Engineering Jim Long, Gabriel Venture Partners Danny Stillion, Head of Interaction Deign, IDEO Over the next few days I’ll place some reflections on the experience on this blog. To kick things off right I’ve included the Problem Statement provided to us on Monday morning. It’s receipt fired a virtual pop-gun for all the participants to start the scramble toward the inev... More About: Reflections , 2008 , Temen
PhizzPop Design Challenge Los Angeles
2007-12-03 03:56:00 Microsoft’s PhizzPop Design Challenge combines a few days of training with a hyper-compressed time line to creatively solve a design challenge. While the solutions are to utilize Microsoft’s Expression Suite of products for execution, the focus is in solving an agency challenge creatively (and quickly). Terralever was invited to participate in the Los Angeles Challenge. ... More About: Events , Microsoft
Quick Hit: Facebook backs off on Beacon
2007-11-30 18:02:00 After a good deal of lashback from their Beacon advertsing system’s ability to broadcast user data, it was announced this morning that the policy will be changed. More information: Machinist: Facebook: Shut down that privacy-invading ad program! Slashdot: Facebook Retreats on Online Tracking Wired Blogs: Facebook Backs Down: Beacon Now Offers Partial Control Over Your Data TechCrunch: Facebook Beacon 2.0: ... More About: Social Networking , Online Marketing , Advertising , Privacy , Quick
Checkout Keepon?s smooth moves
2007-11-22 05:25:00 Wired Science closed out tonight’s episode (11/27) with a catchy video starring Keepon, a happy little dancing robot. The video from YouTube is embedded below (Keepon Dancing to Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah”). The still before the video started reads: Keepon, the dancing yellow robot, was designed and built by his video co-star, roboticist and psychologist Hideki ... More About: Video , Television , Robotics , Robot
This game will help end world hunger. Literally.
2007-11-21 20:23:00 Keeping it simple can make a difference, and Poverty.com’s sister site FreeRice is a perfect example. FreeRice has two goals: Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. Execution against these goals resulted in a very casual online word game which, for each correctly answered multiple-choice ... More About: Games , World , United Nations , Advertising , Hunger
OLPC: Give one, get one, enjoy free WiFi and play SimCity
2007-11-14 19:12:00 The XO goes on sale in North America under OLPC's Give One Get One program, offering the geek philanthropist a year of free T-Mobile HotSpot WiFi access and classic gaming fun by way of a SimCity port. More About: Hardware , Education , Social Networking , Applications , Online Marketing
Bug Labs? hardware mashup mentality
2007-11-09 22:13:00 Bug Labs is bringing a mashup mentality to hardware by way of a series of modules which snap together not unlike the way Legos would. The BUGbase and the BUGmodules don't look like children's toys, nor do they look like Radio Shack geek tech. They look like something you might pay good money for at BestBuy. More About: Hardware , Programming , Applications , Open Source , Java
One Laptop per Child and one for?
2007-11-07 08:12:00 You may know it as the “$100 laptop.” But, let’s call it by its lesser-known name, the XO as it never made it down to the $100 price point. The computer, aimed at providing laptops for needy kids by way of the One Laptop per Child project, has been the cause of speculation, ... More About: Hardware , One Laptop per Child , Industrial Design
Is Google the new Microsoft?
2007-10-31 19:59:00 Not yet, at least in terms of market capitalization. By that measure Google now ranks as the 5th largest company in the United States. Microsoft is the only other tech-centric company in the top 8, and ranks third with a market cap of $333 billion. Rank Company Market Cap (in Billions) 1 Exxon Mobile $505 2 General Electric $415 3 Microsoft $333 4 AT&T $251 5 Google $217 6 Procter & Gamble $215 7 Bank of America $213 8 Citigroup $209 Source: ...
How to get feedback on your Facebook App
2007-10-25 23:59:00 Do you have a Facebook application you are working on? Do you have something compelling to say about Facebook development? Want some feedback? There is a soap box waiting for you. I briefly blogged about the Facebook Developer Garage Phoenix a ways back (it’s coming up on November 14th). One of the traditions ... More About: Programming , Events , Online Marketing , Feedback
Screw your competitors. Google will help you.
2007-10-25 07:57:00 As Google ponders how to apply relevance where relevance is now for sale and barter, they have stepped up and fired their first salvo: Dinging the Page Rank of link farms and sites which promote heavy cross-linking activity. Situationally, they’re in a can of worms here. For their strategy to be effective, they’d really need ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Online Marketing , Search
Twine beta invite
2007-10-19 21:36:00 InviteShare, my new go-to source for beta invites doesn’t have a line on anything for Twine. If anyone out there has an invite to the beta they’d be willing to share, I’d love to be able to check it out. What’s is it? Twine, the product of Radar Networks, is one of the more ... More About: Google , Venture , Social Networking , Web 2 , Beta
Microsoft Popfly goes beta
2007-10-18 19:02:00 Microsoft has moved Popfly from Alpha to Beta . What’s Popfly? It is a web-based, Silverlight environment which allows coders and non-coders alike to create and share web mash-ups (think along the lines of Yahoo Pipes), gadgets, applications and web pages. From Microsoft’s press release: Popfly goes public. Microsoft today announced the public beta release of ... More About: Programming , Microsoft
Facebook Developer?s Garage Phoenix
2007-10-17 02:35:00 Terralever will be hosting the Phoenix Facebook Developer’s Garage Event on the 14th of November. Direct from the Facebook Developer Garage Wiki: Attending or hosting a Facebook Developer Garage is an opportunity for a deep dive into Facebook Platform: it is a forum to share ideas with local developers, look for partners on your latest ... More About: Programming , Events , Online Marketing
A multi-touch computing device for every budget.
2007-10-15 08:15:00 Multi-touch devices seem to be popping up everywhere. Don’t be the last kid on your block to get yours. Don’t worry about the price?there’s something for everyone. The Two Dollar Multi-touch Pad: $2.00 * Manufacturer: You Target Market: Subscribers to Make magazine Pros: Icebreaker with huge nerds Cons: It’s a Ziplock bag full of water and dye ... More About: Hardware , Phone , Apple , Microsoft , Steve Jobs
Not your typical LEGO projects
2007-10-12 17:16:00 Here’s a few cool video examples of what can happen when really smart people get a hold of some LEGOs and too much free time: Friedrich Kirschner: 3d LEGO Milk Scanner Ryo Watanabe: LEGO Mindstorms NXTway-G Balancing Robot Daniele Benedettelli: Mindstorm Rubik Cube Solver DIY, Industrial Design , LEGO, LEGO Mindstorms, Lego NXT, Lego RCXShare This More About: Projects , Pica
Social networking platform deja vu
2007-10-10 07:13:00 TechCruch is reporting that developers will have access to the once closed data of a major social networking player. No, not that one. More About: Programming , Social , Social Networking , Events , Space
Uniqlock?s online viral performance art
2007-10-05 07:39:00 What's a Uniqlock? Music, dance, a clock, and a viral marketing vehicle for Japanese retailer Uniqlo. More About: Online Marketing , Performance , Viral , Viral Marketing , Online
On the Web: Mark Luthringer: Ridgemont Typologies
2007-10-02 08:52:00 I came across Mark Luthringer’s project Ridgemont Typo logies several weeks ago and put a note out to Mark hoping he’d allow me to post a few images along with a link back to his site. Mark obliged, but the post never saw daylight. Fast forward to today. While running through some email from that time period ... More About: Photography , Polo , Logi
BlogRush. Will it stay or will it go?
2007-09-28 10:05:00 BlogRush: is it the next big thing or is it simply over-hyped? More About: Google , Sense , Online Marketing , Advertising , Blog Promotion
On the Web: The Great Firewall of China
2007-09-28 09:06:00 Is this web site actually censored by the Chinese government? More About: Firewall , China , Censorship , Great , Privacy
Don?t upgrade to WordPress 2.3
2007-09-24 22:14:00 A few things you might want to consider before making the leap to Word Press 2.3. More About: Wordpress , Applications , Blogging
Show me the Gatineau
More articles from this author:2007-09-19 00:55:00 Microsoft's first public presentation regarding their upcoming, free analytics tool "Gatineau." More About: Applications , Microsoft , Show , Beta , Analytics 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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