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Spymaster, Twitter game or Twitter spam?

For those of you who are familiar with Facebook’s social networking games like “Knights” and “Mob Wars”,  Twitter’s Spymaster is in the same mold.  It’s the typical social networking game where you recruit members to build up your clan, and simultaneously … Continue reading

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Wolfram Alpha: A computational knowledge engine

Wolfram, the potential game changing computational knowledge engine, (not a search engine) recently went live.  Why isn’t Wolfram a search engine? Well that’s because it takes your query and creates content from it, by outputting graphs, maps, tables, and information … Continue reading

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Protoshare: Collaborative Web-Based Interactive Wireframes and Prototypes

Protoshare is a web-based collaborative prototyping tool that helps teams quickly build, discuss, and refine clickable wireframes. If you’ve ever been involved in the website design or creation process, you know that it can be a pain for developers, spec … Continue reading

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Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device

Amazon will releasee its 2nd version of the Kindle on 2/24/2009, and what’s really interesting is how Amazon is not calling it an “e-book reader”, but rather a “wireless reading device”. It certainly sounds more sophisticated and might compel customers to cough … Continue reading

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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design – By Bill Buxton

While this is definitely an excellent book for designers, it is just as much a resource for executives, product managers and software engineers. To help illustrate many of his points, Buxton takes the reader through real-life case studies. Buxton is a champion for design, … Continue reading

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Palm Pre: on the heals of the iPhone

It looks like this is the year of Messiah. First Obama, and now the Palm Pre. That’s right, this could truly be the savior for Palm, and at the same time, perhaps Sprint too.  Yes, believe it or not, Sprint … Continue reading

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Football Superstars: the future of online multiplayer sports gaming

It seems yet another virtual world has been spawned. This time in the form of a soccer-centric universe that offers an experience for playing on and off the field. (Second Life meets soccer). Playing the Massively Multi-player Online game (MMOG), you can play in … Continue reading

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