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 […]

Posted on January 31, 2006 at 12:10 pm by Gary Rosenzweig · Permalink · Comments Closed
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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 […]

Posted on January 31, 2006 at 8:01 am by Gary Rosenzweig · Permalink · Comments Closed
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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.”

Posted on January 30, 2006 at 4:44 pm by Gary Rosenzweig · Permalink · Comments Closed
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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 […]

Posted on January 30, 2006 at 11:32 am by Gary Rosenzweig · Permalink · One Comment
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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 […]

Posted on January 18, 2006 at 10:02 pm by Gary Rosenzweig · Permalink · One Comment
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