Archive for April, 2010

Social City now on the iPhone

Keeping up with social games like Farmville and Social City can be difficult if you have a life.  These appointment-type games require you to plan how long you will be away from the game for.  If you miscalculate, your crop or factory may expire and you lose the progress you’ve made.  Fortunately you are given [...]

Finding the right balance

Social networks have allowed the average user to create a ton of messages to people they know and don’t know.  On Twitter, any 140 character message you can think of can be broadcasted to a few to hundreds and millions of people.  On Facebook, every time you level up in a game like Farmville, you [...]

Open graph

Earlier today Facebook announced the Open graph, a way to expand the connections between everything and everything on the web.  It sounds a lot like a semantic web.  By categorizing data on websites based on different types of objects with data, collecting, organizing, and analyzing the content is made much simpler for automated systems.  As [...]

Customizing the experience

People have always enjoyed customizing and personalizing everything they touch.  They want things to work how they think things should work.  They want things to be visually appealing.  Some people are so obsessive that they will continuously tweak something over and over until it’s perfect, and then repeat the process again.  Games like Farmville and [...]

Thinking outside the box

Many websites are developed for an audience local to the company. There are developers who don’t consider the product that they’re developing may be used in another country, in another timezone, or even another language. Whether this is a budgetary issue or just being short-sighted with respect to who uses the product, it’s important to [...]

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