Junction Point Studios Hiring

Founded by Warren Spector, Junction Point Studios (JPS) joined Disney Interactive Studios (DIS) in September of 2007 and is quickly growing ... by delivering games of the highest quality – in game play and presentation, notably on time and budget ... of the art team Qualifications 3-6 years of relevant development experience Strong background in art [more...]

Date: 2009-01-29 03:47:53

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Agile Games for Making Retrospectives Interesting

I wrote about this last week on InfoQ but I thought it worthwhile to call out the games I think are the image most useful and interesting ... actually drop with some folks too - and that is a great moment". Games <>   Have a team ... . In the news item I used a quote from Mike Sutton, that neatly sums up the value of games [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 19:07:49

To Those of Us Born - 1930 to 1979

1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!!  First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant ... . And, we were O.K.  We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill ... to solve the problem.  We did not have Play stations, Nintendo’s and X-boxes. There were no video games [more...]

Date: 2009-01-26 19:19:33

Be A More Effective, More Successful Soccer Coach

Want to be a More Effective, More Successful Soccer Coach? In the Next 9 Weeks I'll Show You How to: Never Be Short of Ideas on Training or Match Days - Even if it's 10 Minutes Before Kick-Off and You've Only Just Got to the Pitch [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 12:29:00

On The Internet And What It Gives Us

This post is more epic than Astro Boy’s lack of nipples. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It’s a different time that we live in now. The economy is worse than it’s ever been since World War II as we’re told [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 11:13:31

Game Changers Guest Post: The Beanstockd Project

NOTE: We asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they’ve learned along the way and what’s next ... the Game for Online Games and Environmentalism Quick stats before we get started: Who we are. Pop culturites with a taste for green. Trendy, tech savvy, socially conscious individuals. A team [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 22:00:10

Obama’s First Presidential Press Conference 2/9/09

2/9/09: Presidential Press Conference from White House on Vimeo . Press Conference by the President East Room 8:01 P.M. EST February 9, 2009 THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly about the state of our economy and why I believe we need to put this [more...]

Date: 2009-02-10 19:37:57

Get Your Team in Place

My observations, cannot say it applies to all unheathy churches but this is what I saw in mine. These may be a combination of people. In my former church this is the set of men who control things, the face of the men who made things tick forward. It’s not a complete picture as I don’t think we got the complete picture before we left [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 14:54:48

Running with scissors

From the email files today. This is a good one. Hope you enjoy it. To everyone who survived the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!! ... O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill ... the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 14:50:00

Post-mortem: Forumwarz - We’re not dead yet!

In addition to doing an interview with us , Evil Trout from Forumwarz also wrote a post-mortem. Here were his thoughts: For most retail computer and video games, once your game gets shipped ... along the way. We like to call it “the Internet — in game form.” Our team is quite small. I’m Robin [more...]

Date: 2009-02-16 14:00:12

Motorcycle Riders Born 1940 - 1979…We Survived

Just for all us bikers and motorcycle riders who survived being born in the 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!  Oh yeah, we made it ... . We would spend hours building our go-carts and mini-bikes out of scraps and then ride them down the hill ... to solve the problem. We did not have Play Station, Nintendo and X-boxes. There were no video games [more...]

Date: 2009-02-02 22:25:00

What I bought - 5 November 2008

Reflecting a trend for me, this week I spent $20 on single-issue comics, and almost $120 on graphic novels and collections. The age of the pamphlet is passing, people! Embrace change! If Skrulls can take over the Marvel U. and a big-eared man can win the presidency (as we all know, big-eared men have always been discriminated against) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 01:57:52

Business Assets + Historical Tracking = Serious Value

Posted by randfish One of the areas we rarely touch on here at SEOmoz is how to use your offline, general business assets for SEO ... entirely new strategies, content & processes. Particularly on the link building side ... , there is nothing wrong with building a "partners," "clients," "suppliers," or "recommended" list on your site [more...]

Date: 2009-02-01 13:45:10

Tony Weller Interview

One of the largest bookstores in the United States sits right on Main Street in the heart of Salt Lake City. But you already new that because its been around for almost eighty years. Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore has been providing the city and to an extent most of Utah a source for rare and hard to find books since 1929, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 06:06:00

Part 1 of this series, I took a look at what traditional news organizations are doing to push the envelope in online innovation. But not surprisingly, some of the more advanced work in this area is being done by small startups that can be more nimble and aggressive than their mainstream counterparts [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 04:00:25

PS3 Weekend Warrior: Of closing store, updating Stores, Lifetime Awards, and the run-up week to Killzone 2

  Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. The Weekend Warriors really have returned, and we've made this "second debut" extra special for you, ... different without it. Link: Sony has left the building: Metreon PlayStation Store closing this Summer ... their 2009 PS3 games line-up. Oh it's nothing, really. Just God of War 3 , Heavy Rain , Uncharted [more...]

Date: 2009-02-22 05:27:46

Planning a Corporate Event Or Conference

Proper planning is very important for the success of any corporate event. Corporate events are organised to attain a wide range of objectives. They are also a great way to celebrate a company's accomplishments, promote team building among employees and guarantee an outstanding evening for your guests. Corporate events are organised [more...]

Date: 2009-02-16 02:49:00

SMS Texting and Creativity in China

Above: One of China's top portals, Sohu.com promoting SMS text messaging services in Beijing, January 2001. Photo gallery below.WHAT IS CREATIVITY?Creativity is ability to choose between right and wrong, answered Chinese university student on China Central TV. Not a word about imagination or new ideas, I thought. But let’s not jump [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 08:15:00

Gordon Brown’s Labour conference speech in full

Gordon Brown’s address to the Labour Party 2008 conference in full: age believe better britain british care challenges change child children conservatives country economy ever everyone fairness families fighting financial future global government hard labour lives meet million nations nhs nothing parents party patients people personal public [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 14:15:51

معرفی 500 اتاق در فرندفید!

امروزه کاربران زیادی در Friend Feed حساب کاربری دارند. از این بین کاربران فارسی زبان هم تعداد زیادی را تشکیل می دهند ... , program planning of the social media efforts at your company»109 members FriendFeed Feedback: «Ideas [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 21:28:01

to all the kids who survived the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s or 70s!

(This isn’t a tiggerprr original, I borrowed it from a friend on Facebook who lifted it from somewhere else…etc… but it made me smile, ... on. No one was able to reach us all day, and we were O.K.! We would spend hours building our go-carts ... s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 03:38:04

Simple Game

The game is simple. We can talk on and on about all the statistics. We can beat ourselves up coming up with all kinds of ideas (which I enjoy myself) ... and is number 1 as of right now this season) but the key for this team to get better is defense ... . Hopefully we can now set up the momentum for a nice run in next few games at Pauley. Heading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-30 13:05:33

100 Marketing Tips to Launch Success in 2009!

100 Marketing Tips to Launch Success in 2009! 34) Check with your lenders in the area and see if they offer any service provider loans. Share these plans with the teachers, police, fireman etc..and be their source or connection for buying or selling! QUOTED FROM SUSAN BOYER, SellState Classic Realty, Round Rock, TX I love the one.. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 20:14:59

Zduriencik hire can be good and still depressing

I’ve been really pretty nasty about the whole hiring process lately, as I’m sure you’ve all noticed, ... , that they’d retreat into the safety of a name former GM retread. Zduriencik might work out great (and we don ... . They’ve been successful running a team on a shoestring while pretty much discarding baseball [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 15:04:12

WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction - It happened in Church - Chapter 91 Ninety One - Second Vermont Republic Life

It happened in Church - October 19, 1962 Chapter Ninety One – Second Vermont Republic Life Wednesday November 29th Morning Marie awoke to a beautiful Vermont day. John was sleeping beside her in their marital bed. The end of yesterday was a blur of sorrow. They traveled to Aunt and Unk’s farm by bus. John’s beloved Ford was still there [more...]

Date: 2008-09-13 14:00:13

3 Guidelines for Business they Don’t Teach You In School

Last night I was at National Mechanics for the PANMA spring social, and fashionably late as usual ... , which is basically a kid’s “gaming camp” that teaches team building, leadership, and communication skills through role playing games and improvisation. His tagline is “building community through play” [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 14:35:29

IIATMS Exclusive: Paul DePodesta

I've been lucky enough to be able to get a few minutes of San Diego Padres Assistant General Manager Paul DePodesta's time. I had emailed Paul before I visited San Diego and while he was busy at the time (with things like trading Greg Maddux!), he was generous enough to take some questions from me. As you've seen with some of my other interviews ( [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 18:00:00

Statesboro Blues: No Love from St Valentine for GSU

By JJ Cavanaugh I have been dreading writing this blog since Sunday afternoon… I have been rolling the ideas in my head for three days about what I could say about our performance this past weekend. I guess I can start by building off what I had posted earlier… the good thing about have a very young team is that you get the passion [more...]

Date: 2009-02-18 03:26:42

What football can learn from running

AFTER the hotly-contested elections for the Philippine Football Federation back in 2007, I and Graeme Mackinnon, ... is firing people left and right, while the senior team’s national coach has resigned, saying he has lost ... says one group is demanding that Martinez let an audit team check the finances of the PFF, to check [more...]

Date: 2009-02-14 03:05:22

Lift 1.0 is available

Two years ago, today, I launched the Lift Web Framework as an open source project.  Wow... it's been a long and fun experience.. ... about Lift.  Lift is powered by a community of committers and users that cares about building tools for building great web apps.  Lift is impressive because of the people who use, drive, enhance [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 18:13:08

Symbol6 : How We Created an iPhone Game

Yesterday, I asked my Twitter ( @gogogic ) followers/friends if they would be interested in a blog post about our concept and development processes ... companies like Gogogic apart from companies that are more used to building “conventional” games ... , develops and publishes games for the web, as well as the iPhone and the iPod Touch . This basically [more...]

Date: 2009-02-09 23:20:34

My Ideal Player Mix

Over the last couple of campaigns I've run, I've started putting together a theory about player types, and the mix of them that works for me ... directing the team and finding new jobs for them to do. Then there's character actors ... events at them. They also tend to provide a lot of fuel for instigators, providing events and ideas [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 20:33:00

Full Text: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s Swearing-In Speech

Thank you, Pastor Williams; you’re an inspiration to all of us everyday. I want to thank all of you for coming out tonight to this incredibly special occasion. Typically, the inauguration of the Mayor is a small and private affair. I wanted to make this one different. I wanted to make it about community. I wanted to make it about civic engagement [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 15:11:56

Tabletop RPG Tropes & Lexicon (Warning: Very Long)

October 22, 2008 Dirty Yasuki requested for this over in the “What would you like to see here” post and the idea kind of stuck to my head so I’m giving this one a spin.  That said, this is going to be a work in progress, that I’ll be updating now and then with new tropes and terms as I come up with them, or as people submit them to me [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 23:30:30

Common Issues in Assessing Browser Performance

I’m Christian Stockwell, a Program Manager on the IE team focused on browser performance ... benchmarking is surprisingly difficult. The IE team has invested a great deal of effort building ... of individual tests daily against a large set of servers, and our team rarely ends a day at work without a few [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 23:03:00

Business Assets + Historical Tracking = Serious Value

Feb01SEO Tools, SEO Web Design, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Marketing, Search News, ... . Particularly on the link building side, this is some of the lowest hanging fruit around.Partnerships On & Off ... a bit of a bad reputation, there is nothing wrong with building a "partners," "clients," "suppliers [more...]

Date: 2009-02-01 13:45:10

Latest Headlines

Michelle Obama on the cover of March Vogue…She must be proud of her husband, Barack Obama, who managed to fulfill an overwhelming majority of his campaign pledges today, with the passage of the 800 billion bill, the most money ever given to a president. Congratulations Obama Family!!! It took less than a month!(AP) [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 19:10:38

Concluding thoughts

As a senior who will be away on Spring Break next week, I have seen my final Penn game as a student ... out one of the ugliest wins I’ve ever seen in that building. After the jump, I offer some concluding thoughts and personal perspective on this team and its beleaguered coach. Pardon the 1900-word [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 21:16:04

To Those of You Born 1930 - 1983, here is little light reading for you on Inauguration Day

I received this email and thought I would share it. - Kim TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!! ... We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find ... the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:00:03

Mega-Irony: Microsoft Digs Up Apple's 25 Year Old Mistakes

"Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it."   Or this one is better: "Doh!" The X360 is a cancer ... "Opening the X-Box" is to believed.  According to it, the team who developed the product pulled a bait-and-switch on him when they got him excited about a lower-end version of a PC that could play games [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 17:53:22

Meet Kevin Plantan, VP of Sales at ERE Media - King of The Mohito Handshake

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, Author, SixDegreesfromDave.com VP of Sales, ERE Media Advertising and Events http://www.ere ... into the serious, in-depth exchange of ideas and observations one strives for at a conference ... Media and in all things pertinent to building real friendships. He’s simply a great guy [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 13:21:08

“Ghost Hunters” Episode Review: Two to Tango

Burlington County PrisonTAPS investigator Dave Tango’s father, Bruce Tango, is a former police officer ... Jersey, he told Dave about it. Dave thought it was worth a TAPS investigation so the team headed over to the stately brick building to see what they could find. Bruce is not a squeamish person [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 18:50:59

Social Software, Digital Activism and Cute Cats

This article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Ethan's talk at ETech was one of my favorite parts of this year's conference. He wrote it up on his excellent personal blog, My Heart's In Accra [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 01:32:50

Web startups, Etsy, and Techstars

So this is my second day stuck at home with the flu, and instead of mustering up enough strength to go to French class at 11:00, ... like myself a web based platform to create, and sustain themselves with, their own ideas. My plan has morphed ... business ideas DAILY, but I realize a cool idea isn’t enough. A cool idea has to solve a real-life [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:57:42

are game design and business design similar?

i play a lot of games, or i did i have slowed down some anyways i came across this post on massivly.com ... to quickly iterate on new ideas with relatively low cost and incorporate them into our games as needed ... as i go and explain why im doing this now and why you should be thinking about  it as well. Building [more...]

Date: 2009-02-18 21:42:30

Should Liverpool boss Benitez regret his outburst against Fergie and Manchester United?

by Delius on January 22nd, 2009 | 59 words | Chris at the very amusing Studs Up puts forth one opinion ... wrong with rafas comments if hed won last 3 games maybe he shouldnt of done it but the end always ... at the end of the season will we know. our team has to focus.from my own personel point of veiw i feel sir [more...]

Date: 2009-01-26 09:38:23

We're all survivors...

I received this in an email from my husband today and had to share it with my bloggy friends, ... hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot ... not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video [more...]

Date: 2009-02-07 08:08:00

Arrr! Age of Booty Plunders PSN This Month

I’m glad to be back here with the PlayStation Posse and to talk about a game that I’m looking forward to – Age of Booty ... : Up to 8 players online – You can play a 4 player local match then take the team online! Demo:Available ... , where I was responsible for the multiplayer portion of the Halo games. In Austin I met a few [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 12:57:06

Angelswin.com Interview with Angels’ President Dennis Kuhl

Interview conducted by Chuck Richter I had the chance to chat over the phone with the Angels team president Dennis Kuhl yesterday and we talked ... to buy a team. We had worked together for years and we’d become friends. I was fortunate to have Arte ask me if I would help him come down and run the team. I said absolutely, a dream come true [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 17:49:00

Pakistan Political Mess Emboldens Taliban

Mr. Zardari is seen by the world media: Excerpt from Wall Street Journal's Global View Column by Bret Stephens: Al Qaeda and the Taliban feed on chaos, and a Zardari presidency will almost certainly provide more of it. For Pakistanis, this is a self-inflicted wound and a rebuke to their democracy [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 20:47:41

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