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More Funding for Casual Games: Zynga Raises $29 Million

Casual gaming on the web must look like quite an attractive market to VCs right now. Jeff Bezos already invested in two casual gaming companies this year, Kongregate and SGN, after SGN had already...

IORG Discusses Solutions for Info Overload

On July 15th, the Information Overload Research Group (IORG) held their inaugural conference in New York City. The group, whose founders include IBM, Microsoft, Google, Intel, and a dozen other...

Knol: Google Takes on Wikipedia

Google just opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public after announcing a private beta of the service last December. Unlike Wikipedia, Knol puts a stronger emphasis on authorship and...

Pixily: Put Your Paper Docs Online in 3 to 5 Days Max

New startup Pixily lets small businesses and individuals send paper documents by mail in a Netflix style envelope, then scans, uploads to Amazon S3 and lets you search them in 3 to 5 days. It's the...

Facebook Keeps Growing - Still Far Behind MySpace in US

According to the latest data from Hitwise, Facebook, which is kicking off its developer conference today, grew 40% over the last year, while its biggest competitor, MySpace, saw a 6% drop in visits...

Ubiquity For Firefox Is Not An Add-On - It's a Whole New UI

Is This Future for the Firefox UI?You may remember a project called Enso, a software program developed by Humanized - the same folks who brought you Songza. The program is an application launcher...

WordPress Comes To iPhone

Do you have an iPhone? Are you a blogger? Then you're going to love this news - there's now a WordPress app for iPhone available for download from the iTunes App Store. The software lets you update...

Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know

The future of software development is about good craftsmen. With infrastructure like Amazon Web Services and an abundance of basic libraries, it no longer takes a village to build a good piece of...

PlayCrafter: A Casual Game Builder in Flex

PlayCrafter is a new web application that lets anyone create custom games by dragging and dropping elements around the screen. Built with Flex, Adobe's Ryan Stewart calls PlayCrafter part of "a...

Homage to the Tangible and the Intangible Factors of Success

The term "I love it when a plan comes together" does not quite cover how successful I have been in my recent efforts, and the system that I used can be 100% duplicated by ANYONE looking for success!