News 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 raised a $15 million Series A round in January. Now, Mark Pincus' Zynga, another online gaming site, announced that it raised $29 million in a Series B… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Trends 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 companies and academic institutions, is on a mission to find solutions to today's information overload problems. In attendance at this first conference were… Sarah Perez View comments
Features Ubiquity For Firefox Is Not An Add-On - It's a Whole New UI Is this the 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 which provides you with a different way to navigate and interact with your computer through the use of keyboard shortcuts and typed commands. As… Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis 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 software. These days, a couple of engineers who know what they are doing can deliver complete systems. In this post, we discuss the top 10 concepts… Alex Iskold View comments
Features Three Hot Mixtape Services That Are Remaking the Art Form Mixtapes just 'aint what they used to be. One of the most democratic forms of art collecting is being made even easier by a handful of fun new websites. Is it legal? Will it last? We don't know and we don't know if we care. These services are such a joy to use that they reinvigorate our appreciation for what the social web can do. Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments