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06 November 2005

05 November 2005

Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development

by bcpbcp & 3 others
A lot of us are fans of tabbed browsing. It's one of the most useful changes in window and document management since the Task Bar on Windows. People who like to work with multiple documents like quick, convenient access to them. It's part of the reason Microsoft moved Office to a SDI model. That said, Firefox is a browser for everybody, and a lot of people don't use a lot of windows. In one of the PDC videos released a month or so back, a Microsoft representative said that they had done studies that showed that users generally had no more than 5 windows open at a time. This surprised them because they, like most of us, were used to browsing with tens of windows. The challenges that face us building the Firefox UI is how to make Tabbed Browsing useful to those who want it, discoverable to those whose lives would be made easier by it, and transparent to those who don't need it.

04 November 2005

03 November 2005

Yahoo! 360° - Computer Mediated Communication - Yume : A 15 year quest completed

by bcpbcp (via)
"15 years ago I traveled to Japan with my family as part of a Fujitsu marketing campaign for the Japanese version of Habitat, the first avatar virtual world. "

Lost Garden: A Game Business Model: Learning from Touring Bands

by bcpbcp (via)
Aplicável no Brasil? "This essay is about illuminating a successful, alternative, business model that has the following key characteristics: * Supports large numbers of independent game titles in a low competition environment. * Is amendable to bootstrapping and thus avoids the need for large publishers, money men or other controlling interests. * Encourages unique pockets of innovation. * Offer an opportunity for sustainable, lower risk profits for a small group of developers."

Habitat Chronicles: SOP II Presentation Slides

by bcpbcp
Secondary Virtual Item Market implies Real World Value and that implies that it is Real World Property and, by extension, subject to real world property laws.

Raph’s Website » How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days

by bcpbcp
Pontos em comum entre Experimental GamePlay e ToF. Também comenta sobre algumas ferramentas de prototipação.

Lost Garden: The myth of programmer-designer greatness

by bcpbcp
"Here’s a phrase from an earlier post that harkens back to the ancient days when game developers beat their dinner dead with bone weapons. “The best game designers are also programmers.” (Apologies to Dylan Fitterer for taking this out of context.)"

Web Essentials '05: Bringing a Web conference to the Web, by Jeffrey Veen

by bcpbcp (via)
"Last week I spoke at Web Essentials '05, an invigorating conference in Sydney, Australia. The folks attending were so engaged and excited"

02 November 2005

The future of gaming: Interactive extroversion and public humiliation from Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog

by bcpbcp
"Perhaps that's why games like Solitaire (well-established in offline circles), Nintendogs (who hasn't had the experience of playing with a pooch?), DopeWars (it's all about the spreadsheets), SingStar, Buzz and EyeToy have been successful with the mainstream - they're not asked to do anything they've not done before."

27 October 2005

Mind Hacks: NewSci on creativity

by bcpbcp
Today's New Scientist is a special edition on creativity, tackling the subject from a number of angles.

26 October 2005

24 October 2005

23 October 2005

The Mouse Whisperer - Ajax (XMLHTTPRequest) Tutorial

by jl2k5 & 2 others (via)
Page update without refresh using Javascript, PHP and XML's XMLHTTPRequest object (also known as 'remote scripting')

Grand Text Auto » Digital Humanities Quarterly: Call for Scholarly and Creative Work

by bcpbcp
Digital Humanities Quarterly will publish scholarly articles, editorials, experiments in interactive media, and reviews of books, web sites, new media art, and digital humanities systems.

Official Google Blog: Guess what just turned 34?

by bcpbcp & 1 other
It provided a fast and dynamic interface from web browsers everywhere, popularizing the techniques that have since become known as AJAX.

The Mouse Whisperer - Ajax (XMLHTTPRequest) Tutorial

by bcpbcp & 2 others
Page update without refresh using Javascript, PHP and XML's XMLHTTPRequest object (also known as 'remote scripting')

21 October 2005

20 October 2005