Archive for July, 2008

“Aggressive Expansion”: Three New Bloggers

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

In the never-ending effort for world wide web domination, I’d like to introduce the first batch of bloggers who will be contributing to the site to provide thought-provoking content when I can’t.

  • Brett Roberts will be writing From Left Field, a liberal political blog.
  • Ben Jones is the Minority Suspect, speaking his thoughts about liberal politics and the movie industry, his personal passion.
  • And Alex Gartrell writes from the DevPOV, talking technology and working in the computer industry.

Myself, politically a right-winger with socially liberal leanings, feel that having two liberal authors on staff will provide a nice bias balance, as well as create some fun point-counterpoint posts.

In keeping with my technology and business writings, I hope DevPOV will have educational value to not only myself and other techies, but anyone who reads the site.

Here’s to the first step in our hostile takeover of the internet.

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GiggleSeed and Startup Weekend

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Startup WeekendI’ve got a new job as a partner in a new software company.

Last weekend, starting on Friday, I spent 36 hours at the TechColumbus building, conveniently located next to the Lennox where I saw The Dark Knight the night before. I hadn’t heard of TechColumbus before, but it’s an organization that helps Central Ohio companies get off their feet and provides a quasi-office environment that anyone can use for business.

TechColumbus played host to Startup Weekend, a nationwide movement for technology and business enthusiasts across the country to meet and manage to build fresh businesses in one weekend. My dad found an article in the Dispatch a week before the event while tickets were still available, and for forty bucks, I was into my first tech convention.
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E3 2008

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

It may be losing audiences to the Tokyo Game Show and the Penny Arcade Expo. It’s organizer, the ESA, is still strapped with management troubles. Yet there is still no question that the only convention in the games industry that builds hype, garners attention, and gets its own editorial section on every gaming site is still the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Every year, gamers worldwide wait for the press conferences from the big three hardware, first-party companies to announce their next great projects. With each year, E3 gets smaller as more developers back out of displaying their unfinished wares at the show, but even this year, there are some goodies to gab about.

Below is a breakdown of the major news from this year’s E3 by each of the console creators:

Nintendo:

  • Wii Motion Plus- An attachment to the bottom of the Wiimote that allows for one-to-one movement sensing. For example, a lightsaber game will allow you to weild the Wiimote and the sword will move in precise tandem with your hand motions.
  • That lightsaber game I just mentioned? It’s real, along with other mini-games in the new Wii Sports Resort.
  • Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS
  • Animal Crossing for the Wii with internet voice chat via packaged microphone
  • WiiMusic allows for easy playing of more musical instruments than Activision and Harmonix could ever include in Rock Band or GH

Microsoft

  • Netflix on Xbox LIVE allows for downloadable movie rentals from the 360
  • New Xbox LIVE Dashboard features animated, Mii-like avatars, slicker iTunes-ish design
  • ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SHOW: Final Fantasy XIII for the Xbox 360 simultaneously with the PS3.

Sony

  • Sony starts a video download service for the PS3, a good year or two behind Microsoft
  • MAG (Massive Action Game) will be an online shooter allowing for up to 256 players per match. Let’s see if it lags or not.
  • God of War III confirmed but no real info revealed.

Fill the rest of your E3 hunger at The Escapist’s E3 2008 Coverage.

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The Next Gates? Not in Computers

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The departing Bill Gates will leave a gaping hole in the halls of technology titans still at work. Leaving Microsoft in the hands college friend Steve Ballmer and Lotus leader Ray Ozzie, the loss of Bill Gates has left technology pundits pondering a very relevant question for the future of technology: Who will take his place? Not at Microsoft. We’re talking as the face of the computer revolution. We have not seen someone as iconic in technology as Gates since he arrived on the scene in the 70s. Heck, we may not have seen someone as downright legendary as Gates in nearly a century.

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