Streaming Game Music : Rainwave

I am so impressed with this website! Understated and javascript driven, you get a list of videogame soundtracks that are currently playing and you can vote for the next song to come up in the playlist. Very well done! You'll need a player that understands ogg streaming like videolan to enjoy the music.

Two thumbs up!!

Unity3D Game Engine getting traction

I have seen some really fun 3D games in the past few months, and I have been astounded to realize that the vast majority of those were written in Unity 3D

To get an idea of just how cool / amazing they can be, check out the Dukateers game above. To see some more games and look at the kinds of things people are developing, check out this site: http://unity3d.com/gallery/developer-profiles/web-games/

Custom YUI Grid Column Widths

Nate Koechley has a very useful post about customizing the column widths in YUI grids. This should be added somehow to the YUI Grid builder so that it can be automated.

NeoEdge and MostFun.com = free ad supported games

You dont have to put coins in your television to watch most shows (outside of paying for cable access) and up until now you've had to fork over $ to play many casual downloadable games. This site takes the idea of advertisement supported media from the TV world and applies it to gaming. Neoedge wants to be the advertiser for free downloadable games and it means to you that if you can sit through "commercials" you can download and play many popular casual games for free.

It had to happen eventually, and perhaps having a free ad sponsored alternative to buying games might help curtail some of the desire for game pirates, since you can get the games for "free" w/o any effort.

Now supposedly NeoEdge has a "widget" that can be embedded on a site to offer downloadable games, but I was unable to find it. Mashable mentions this. Can someone from NeoEdge or related areas point out where to grab this widget? Or is it only for big wig portals? Hrm.

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 :)