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Facebook has announced it is expanding it Facebook Credits program launched in May, to make it easier for developers to integrate Credits into their applications.
The Facebook Developer Blog offers more details. “Today more than 500,000 applications exist on Facebook, and the virtual goods within those applications (particularly games) have become an increasingly valuable part of [...]
A couple of significant shifts took place in the game developer community this week. Big Six, which deals in social games, was acquired by Hi5 Networks, and Warner Bros. bought a majority stake in Rocksteady Studios, the maker of the latest Batman game.
Unfortunately, some other important details – including the amounts of money that changed [...]
Yahoo has created what it calls the “GeoPlanet Explorer”, based on its geo platform API. The project utilizes Yahoo’s Geo Planet data such as:
- Placenames
- Latitude and longitude info
- Hierarchical info about places
Developers can simply go to the Yahoo Developer Network and go to the Geo section, and retrieve the API and/or the dataset for [...]
If you’ve ever wondered how searching for information on the web works, and why Google seems to produce accurate results search after search – thankfully, it seems to me, in spite of what you type in that search box at times – a feature story in Wired magazine’s March edition will give you some powerful [...]
My friend Jan has published some quality comparisons between the Ogg and H.264 video codec. For those who don’t know, Ogg Theora is the video container format and codec favoured by Mozilla for playback of web video in HTML5 whereas H.264 is a widely popular codec – one may say the industry standard – that [...]
The Rackspace Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting has announced its new Partner Program aimed at developers and IT managers.
The program includes online resources such as a web portal for tracking and reporting; webinars and marketing collateral; opportunities for co-marketing; and open, standards-based APIs that are easy to build upon.
The Rackspace Cloud also [...]
Adobe is working on a Flex/Flash “Evangelism kit”. Kristen Schofield writes on the Official Flex Team Blog, “Something that we’ve heard from you guys is that you need help championing Flex and Flash Builder to your customers or even within your own organizations. I’m now working to put materials together that can help you in [...]
Facebook understands that developers may not be able to drop everything and prepare a response every time the site makes a change. Real jobs, food, and sleep sometimes call. Facebook’s even gone beyond “understanding” to “accommodating,” too, unveiling new Migrations tool.
Justin Bishop explained on the Facebook Developers blog, “Now, when certain changes go live, you [...]
Create a custom brush to make a rainy scene and manipulate some imagery to envision a live-action Heavy Rain. The video game features a character named Madison Paige, who is sculpted after a British model that did all of the facial expressions and motion capture for the game, which is touted to be a very [...]
I have switched from Microsoft Office on my Mac OS X system to Apple’s iWorks package, which works great except every so often someone complains that my files are in .pages format, not .doc, which is what they want to see. I can’t see how to save a file in Pages as an MS Word [...]
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