Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr and founder of game developer Tiny Speck, talks about his newly launched, massively multiplayer online game Glitch, why he chose 2-D instead of 3-D, and how he thought about starting a bank instead of a game company. Read More »
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Mathew Ingram
Bio:I’m a senior writer at the GigaOm blog network. E-mail me at mathew(at)gigaom.com or mathew(at)mathewingram.com.
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TweepML, which launched a Twitter-based service offering list management just a couple of months before Twitter launched something almost identical, is now up for sale. The demise of the service is a graphic reminder of the risks of building a startup on someone else’s platform. Read More »
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield’s new startup, Tiny Speck, has announced its first product, a massively multiplayer online game called Glitch. The 2D Flash-based game will start alpha testing soon and launch in late 2010, Butterfield says, and includes social elements such as collaborative puzzle-solving. Read More »
Peter Warden analyzed the user profile data and friend settings from more than 200 million Facebook profiles, and found that they naturally segmented themselves into seven regional groups, based on the number of connections between users and those from other states. Read More »
A growing number of authors are signing exclusive e-book deals with Amazon for the Kindle, attracted in part by the higher royalty rates the electronic retailer is offering. In the latest deal, author Gavin de Becker gave Amazon rights to two e-books for a year. Read More »
PayPal says it has suspended personal payments to and from India, as well as transfers to local banks in India. The changes may be in response to new rules in India intended to restrict money laundering. Read More »
Forrester Research touched off a bit of a brush fire this past weekend when it said it would limit its analysts to blogging about research-related topics on Forrester.com and decreed that any personal blogs maintained on other domains must be strictly about personal matters. Read More »
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