These are things I’ve found interesting for November 16th from 08:45 to 08:45:

• Christian Gaming Zone: Minecraft – And who says games don't have deep meaning. ;-) It makes me realize that Minecraft is the perfect antidote to a decade of FPS "Shoot minorities in the head" bad PR.
• The art of connection, contribution, & change – Helpful reminder that making my game is not about beating my competition, but about connecting with the people who play my: "A contribution is never about us—it’s always about them. We show respect for them by being well prepared. We show we care by sharing a bit of ourselves and a small part of our own humanity. Do not allow yourself to get bogged down in a haze of self-doubt and worry about whether or not you are good enough. To win or to lose is not the point."

These are things I’ve found interesting between November 12th through November 15th:

• The REAL ‘Stuff White People Like’ « OkTrends – OkCupid's research on people's preferences based on race.
• Not an MMO anymore –

These are things I’ve found interesting between November 11th through November 12th:

• Apple and Oracle Announce Plans for OpenJDK Java Implementation –
• TSA’s New Book for Kids: ‘My First Cavity Search’ –
• Good Stuff on Agile and UXD –

These are things I’ve found interesting between November 9th through November 10th:

• In-Depth: Ed Fries Argues For The Artistic Necessity Of Constraint – Love this sentiment. Much of what we are doing with Spry Fox is centered around the idea of constraints. More specifically, we are picking design constraints that allow us to create deep, highly playable games rapidly and at low cost. This path is open to everyone, but it takes an iron will to actually execute within the boundaries.
• The McGurk Effect –

These are things I’ve found interesting between November 7th through November 8th:

• Preferring games to worlds –
• We’re about to Find out Just How Powerful Tencent Is –

These are things I’ve found interesting between November 1st through November 3rd:

• The LOLapps Saga Continues — Facebook Blocks Its Access to Communication Channels – It is a slippery slope from playing the cop to playing the gatekeeper. The spectrum:
  Facebook = Police Cop
  iOS = Church Cop
  Publisher = Gatekeeper
  1st Party Platform = Dictator.

  When selecting platforms it is a matter of picking the least deadly poison since they are all laced with anti-developer vileness deep in their platform-centric DNA.

• A Look at Trends in Social Games’ User Ratings on Facebook – Quality matters. In the bigger picture, game developer who spit on social games are spitting on a baby who is showing evidence that they are rapidly growing up.
• Robots steadily replacing middle class jobs –
• Exclusive: Apple, Google Are Sniffing Around Mobile Payments Startup BOKU –

These are things I’ve found interesting between October 29th through November 1st:

• Typewriter Hacked To Play <em>Zork</em> –
• Game Development Budgets –
• 57 things I’ve learned founding three companies – I particularly like #33.

These are things I’ve found interesting for October 28th from 13:06 to 16:46:

• Interesting writeup on whether the Playdom acquisition was a –
• Woman Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session!<br><br>With –

These are things I’ve found interesting between October 27th through October 28th:

• Microsoft's consumer brand is dying – Oct. 27, 2010 – You can have money. You can have power. You can have smart people from top schools. You can have past successes. You can have bold ideas by expensive visionaries.

  But ultimately, you need strong execution. Can you ship high quality products that people want? Intriguingly, you reach this state without any of the items above.

• Intel And Another 70 Companies Launch Cloud 2015 Open Data Center Alliance –

These are things I’ve found interesting between October 25th through October 27th:

• Bruce Mau Design –
• Gamasutra – Features – Facebook Games Level Up – So very true. In emerging markets that aren't yet saturated with stale genres, the designer is the primary force for generating real value for the customer. If you are truly passionate about game design, I cannot imagine any reason for wasting your life in the slave camps of AAA development where you are guaranteed to be treated as a second-class worker tasked with polishing the cutlery.
• PayPal Rolls Out Cheaper Way To Process Microtransactions – Virtual Goods News –
• Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack – Steve Blank is the Daniel Cook of Business.
• Nintendo president says Apple a bigger threat than Microsoft in games –
• Apple in negotiations to purchase streaming service Spotify – rumor –
• Molehill sneak peek now on Labs! –
• The Lens Profile Downloader now available! –
• Browser-Based Bigpoint Claims 150M Registered Users –