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Steve Jobs w/ an Open Letter on Flash. →
nerdcast:
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
There are so many good nuggets in there from Jobs. Absolutely worth the entire read.
Team Jobs.
John Mayer: Twitter Isn't "Over", I'm Over It. →
nerdcast:
This is where Tumblr comes in. It’s the future of social networking if your image of the future features intelligent discourse. I love reading other Tumblr users replies, because they’re thoughtful by virtue of the fact that if they’re not, they’ll bring the intellectual property value of their own blog down, and that’s a commodity on Tumblr.
This post is an experiment in itself. If...
On Kick-Ass →
Pretty fascinating. Looking at peoples’ reaction to the violence in Kick-Ass, compared to the frame of mind that has been created out of a generation who see violence in games as, essentially, removing “obstacles to free movement.”
“I would rather see Twitter be a cork board of links to other more important...”
– John Mayer, predicting death for Twitter.
UGHHHHHH. John Mayer. It’s not all about you, you know? You said some stupid things on the internet. It happens. Now people don’t like you anymore. It happens. That doesn’t mean the rest of us have to delete our twitters.
You guys?...
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012259/Train_%28or_Ho... →
This presentation at this years GDC (Game Developers Conference) by Brenda Brathwaite makes the compelling argument that games (board as well as video) are not just art, but are some of the most rewarding, challenging, expressive, worthwhile art a human being can be involved in - because of their very nature of interactivity.
Long, but very much worth a listen to anyone at all interested in art,...
“Someone has it backwards — it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all...”
– Trudy Miller, Apple spokeswoman (via davidkaneda)
“We are at the beginning of a significant change in the industry, and I believe...”
– Mike Chambers, On Adobe, Flash CS5 and iPhone Applications (via davidkaneda)
Watch3D Dot Game Heroes Video Game, Preview | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com
I kinda can’t wait for this. I loves me some Zelda, and this is, well, Zelda. Except cheeky.