Archive for January, 2006
Big Companies Don’t Get RSS
RSS is a great way to share information. By sharing information, you can make your information source more valuable, attract more readers, and reach more people. News organizations get it. Web publishers get it. Bloggers get it. But most big companies and organizations don’t get it.
Take sports scores or stock data. They should be ripe [...]
IGF Finalist Praises Director
The maker of “Dodge that Anvil!”, a finalist in the 2006 Independent Games Festival, had this to say about using Director to make the 3D physics-enhanced game: “Director provides a solid, cross-platform 3D engine, Havok physics, and a widely deployed web plugin… experimenting with this toolset provided the inspiration for the basic game design.” You [...]
Halo 2 Prototyping Done in Director!
Yep. Check out the story at Bungie.net. They call Director “a quick and easy tool to get user interface “screens” up and running.”
Digg.com Is Killing Journalism
Like many people, I am somewhat addicted to the recently-hot Digg.com Web site. But perhaps not in the same way. I’m watching it like a driver passing a multi-car pile-up on the freeway. I’m appalled and fascinated.
Digg claims to be a “news” site. It says so right there on the page: “What’s Digg? Digg is [...]
Video Podcast Time
At CleverMedia we’ve been working toward getting some video podcasts off the ground. We have the talent, we have the equipment and we have the ideas. Finally, we got the first one off the ground. It will be a regular video podcast about books called Book Stories. The first episode is about the grand opening [...]