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Eskil Steenberg is a solo game-developer who’s bent on creating an entire massively multiplayer online world single-handedly, using procedural generation techniques that cause the game to build itself by starting with clever rules and exploring them outwa

After suffering humiliation at the hands of a hacker in 2007, the future of anti-piracy company MediaDefender is in serious doubt. Its parent company, ARTISTdirect, has called in a team of specialists to “assist in the exploration of strategic alternati

The first 30,000 pages of an ambitious multi-million pound Encyclopedia of Life project have been unveiled. Every life form on Earth to be catalogued. Encyclopaedia of Life goes online. They mark the first milestone in a 10-year-long project to chronicle

Vor einigen Wochen änderte das “soziale Netzwerk” StudiVZ seine AGB. Die Daten der Nutzer sollten demnach für personalisierte Werbung weitergegeben werden können. Nach Protesten schwächte das Portal diese Änderung insofern ab, als bei einer Verweiger

Ob private Bewertungen von kommerziellen Produkten, Blog-Einträge oder Meinungsäußerungen in einem der zahlreichen Diskussionsforen im Netz. Im Zeitalter vom Web 2.0 ist jeder Otto-Normal-Verbraucher längst zum Publizisten und damit gleichzeitig zum p

This Instructable shows you how to build large spherical lamps out of Ikea lampan lamps ( $4.99 each ). The lamps are based on platonic solids. With this method I have built large spheres up to 32 lamps.

Fred Wilson recently pointed me to David Hyman’s manifesto on how the music labels can save themselves. It’s well worth a read.

Five hundred top members of the music business gathered today in New York to hear that “music 1.0 is dead.” Ted Cohen, a former EMI exec who used the phrase, opened the Digital Music Forum East by pleading with the industry to be wildly creative with new

Indistr is taking the Amie St approach to digital music’s long tail. In an effort to create a true market where supply and demand meet in an ideal environment, Indistr’s newest feature is hoping to provide the perfect price point for online music sale

If the Independent Games Festival is any indication, the future of gaming is music, crayons and funny hats. A year ago, nobody would have cared. But with Portal’s rise from indie oddity to game of the year, everybody is suddenly interested in IGF’s videog