5 Things About District 9
Aug 19, 2009 Miscellanous
I just watched District 9 and I have almost nothing negative to say about it. This surely has to be the best movie of the year, if not one of the best. Here are some things I thought about the movie. (Be warned, spoilers after the jump)
Tags: Aliens, District 9, Movie, Neil Blogkamp, Prawn, Prawns, South Africa, Wikus
Popcap takes a leaf out of Evony’s book
Aug 14, 2009 Miscellanous
Many of you who surf the internet daily (mostly on gaming sites) would more than likely have come across advertising for a certain online game called Evony.
While starting off as rather innocent, the advertising gradually became more and more risque, and people started taking notice (mostly by laughing) the ridiculous attempts to attract their main target market to play their game. Mainly by sticking a woman on the image, showing a bit of flesh, and adding a few “insinuating” taglines. Just see for yourself how hilarious these ads have evolved.
Tags: Ads, Advertising, Bejeweled, Evony, Peggle, Plants, PopCap, Zombies
Google 2.0
Aug 12, 2009 Articles
With the release of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine and the Yahoo/Microsoft deal, its no surprise that Google is starting to feel a little heat. This can only be a good thing; nothing like a bit of good healthy solid competition.
The result? The next version of Google 2.0, as reported by Mashable.
It is evident that Search is the foundation of all of Google’s online strategy, and in order to stay profitable it has to stay on top. And now Google has generously allowed the general public to preview the development build of its dominating search engine.
While searching for me, there are no immediate differences in the results. I did, however, notice that the previous version of Google could not find my facebook profile (rather strange, I think), where as the new version had listed me under an expandable list of results from Facebook.
Regardless, it is an exciting (and often scary) period to be involved in the development of the internet as we know it. Be sure to hop over to http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ and give it a whirl!
IE Team Meddles in HTML5
Aug 11, 2009 Articles
Just saw a post over at Ajaxian mentioning some involvement from the IE team in the HTML5 discussions.
Personally I feel a little mixed about it. Obviously, any interest in the specifications from the IE team should indicate some level of consideration towards standards compliance, which is always a welcome sign. However, judging by some of the feedback given by Adrian Bateman I can only feel that the IE team continue to fail to understand what I feel are some of the goals of the HTML5 specifications. Read the rest of this entry »
