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"In 1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor David Miller showed the movie Star..."

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:28:09 +0100

“In 1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor David Miller showed the movie Star Wars to his students on their first day of class. After the scene where Skywalker spars with a floating droid remote, Miller stood up and pointed: “I want you to build me some of those.””

- NASA Expanding Tests of Star Wars-Inspired “Droids” - nasa.gov

"that’s how business was done at Apple - it was well-managed internal warfare."

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:21:01 +0100

“that’s how business was done at Apple - it was well-managed internal warfare.”

- Innovation is a Fight by Michael Lopp in Rands in Repose

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amandalynferri: jacob: Amy Poehler on Tumblr. Time to create...

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:57:17 +0200

amandalynferri:

jacob:

Amy Poehler on Tumblr.

Time to create the tumbie award show.

"The future of media is not about geographical restrictions."

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:26:39 +0100

“The future of media is not about geographical restrictions.”

- John Gruber

"In a post-Steve-Jobs world, there is no longer an excuse for large corporations to be less bold than..."

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:00:23 +0200

“In a post-Steve-Jobs world, there is no longer an excuse for large corporations to be less bold than start-ups.”

- Steve Jobs: a personal remembrance, by John Siracusa, in Ars Technica

" If your users, with their shiny MyWebBookSauceHubsterVille account, come to your app from..."

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:38:26 +0200

“

If your users, with their shiny MyWebBookSauceHubsterVille account, come to your app from MyWebBookSauceHubsterVille.com, they’re your customers: your marketing got them, you own them, Apple respects that.

If, however, users come to the app from the App Store, they’ve never heard of MyWebBookSauceHubsterVille before: all they’re interested in doing is making their iPad a little more useful. Then, Apple sees them as Apple customers, first and foremost, and Apple wants its cut of the action. You’re standing on top of their stack, and that costs 30%.

”

- Apple, Apps, Appeals, & Appeasement: the Story of Drift via github

"God, can you imagine if 5 years ago someone told you that you’d be rooting for EA, and that they’d..."

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:04:15 +0200

“God, can you imagine if 5 years ago someone told you that you’d be rooting for EA, and that they’d be the “good guys” (reliantly speaking) of big publishers…”

- Starky on RPS : http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/21/modernwarfare3/#comment-606928

"Without your support and participation, all we would have is a bunch of servers and some code."

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:32:32 +0200

“Without your support and participation, all we would have is a bunch of servers and some code.”

- http://blog.reddit.com/2011/04/good-news-everyone.html

"the “cloud” was still just something that you drew up on a whiteboard as a placeholder for the..."

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:53:42 +0200

“the “cloud” was still just something that you drew up on a whiteboard as a placeholder for the in-between crap that someone else was going to build and operate.”

- Bryan Cantrill, VP of Eng @ Joyent.

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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:20:36 +0200

speaking of Valve : What Went Right : Steam Tommy: Steam is amazing. I can’t...

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:55:29 +0200

speaking of Valve :

What Went Right : Steam

Tommy: Steam is amazing. I can’t stress that enough. The ability to quickly update within hours of a bug popping up made the entire PC launch much easier than it could have been if Steam had a different system in place to update code.

Also, Steam listens to its developers. They listened to us when it came to our suggestions for how we should push the sale, and in return we listened to them. Working with Steam never felt like a publisher / developer relationship. It felt like a mutual partnership to make the most money and put the best game out there.

We love Steam.
Team Meat, Super Meat Boy Postmortem on Gamasutra.

"Frustration was the biggest part of retro difficulty and something we felt needed to be removed at..."

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:44:33 +0200

“

Frustration was the biggest part of retro difficulty and something we felt needed to be removed at all costs, in order to give the player a sense of accomplishment without discouraging them to the point of quitting.

At its core, this idea was quite basic: Remove lives, reduce respawn time, keep the levels short and keep the goal always in sight.

”

- Team Meat, Super Meat Boy Postmortem on Gamasutra.
Seems like a Valve quote.

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Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:37:00 +0200

tpdsaa: Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:55:01 +0100

tpdsaa:

Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising

(via) UPDATE : the guy is on twitter since about 40 minutes...

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:55:00 +0100

(via)
UPDATE : the guy is on twitter since about 40 minutes ago : http://twitter.com/charliesheen

Ben Wyatt Human Disaster

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:40:30 +0100

Ben Wyatt
Human Disaster

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Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:36:00 +0100

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Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:04:48 +0100

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"What he doesn’t realize, is that he’s effectively becoming the low-budget version of George Lucas...."

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:36:41 +0100

“What he doesn’t realize, is that he’s effectively becoming the low-budget version of George Lucas. Just make movies in his own back yard and nobody’s allowed to tell him if they’re any good or not. This is the absolute worst way you can approach writing, and almost always leads to subpar work.”

- What’s Going On With Kevin Smith? on Scriptshadow. (via waxy)

Buzz FTW.

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:31:27 +0100

Buzz FTW.