Apture - freaking amazing new way to add metacontent to your site

You've seen those popup windows that come up when you mouse over some links on various sites - annoying and usually in the way. That was my first thought when I saw Apture. Boy was I wrong. They have taken the idea of adding metadata to your site to a whole new level of polish and ease of use. Plus, the UI is actually really pleasant to use and not "in the way" . Just add a bit of js to your blog, then run a bookmarklet when you are on the site and you can just highlight text and add flickr photos, wikipedia entries, and other cool things like google maps. If then open the api for third parties to add "widgets" this could be a really BIG DEAL. I wonder who's going to buy them up when the big co's discover this site.

Make Games with Microsoft Popfly

Microsoft Popfly is a Silverlight based game creation tool. You are supposed to be allowed to share your game creations. Let's see if it works :)

Itty Bitty RPG Coding Update

I finally got a few minutes to work in Itty Bitty RPG.... I got the dojo storage functionality working for my current version. This version is going to bring everything together -- graphics, storage, overlays, etc etc. Soon I'll have something actually looking like a real game!

How to Make Money from Virtual Worlds

Oreilly has released a report on virtual worlds and how to create a business model from them. I think the real business is selling reports -- the document costs over $200!

Experimenting with Wix

Wix is simply amazing - there are so many features and pretty pretty preset graphics its quite overwhelming! Imagine you took a huge clipart library, merged it with Photoshop and some psychedelic interfaces and you'd get something like this. I think this is going to be a phenomenal hit with social software kiddies. Plus it has a business side as well... if you can resist adding sparkles everywhere :)


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Monster Bash - a free 3d game by Betapilot

Shockwave does not get much love nowadays, but this game show's there's still alot of coolness left in it - and it might be seeing a revival as a 3d engine for games. This one oozes polish and its pretty fun. You play a baseball wannnabe monster who clubs a skull into the air. Try to beat your longest hit...

I'm a Mid Core Gamer

I now know who I am. I'm a Mid Core Gamer. What is that? Well, check out the description on the article, as well as on Inverted Castle...

101 Adobe AIR Resources

If you are working with Adobe AIR you know that the amount of information can be both disappointing in quality as well as overwhelming in quantity. This list of resources might help steer you in the right direction.

ProtoRPG - a javascript rpg using prototype

Since I'm doing essentially something similar with YUI it's with a warm heart that I found this simple RPG demo using prototype... check it out!

A Baseball MMO?

I'm not a big baseball fan, but I can see this as totally reaching an audience not attracted to the World of Warcraft style MMO's. Interesting.