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6 Entertaining Games Made Entirely in Microsoft Excel
“Excel — your friendly (and perhaps most dreaded) office tool. But it’s not just for spreadsheets anymore. Believe it or not, you can turn the data-analyzing, number-cruncher into one unbelievably cool game. The Microsoft software has a few secrets up its sleeve; many people have managed to design new games or recreate classics like Monopoly […]
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The World Cup Flopping Ranking – WSJ
“Fans of the world’s most popular game know that this is just one of soccer’s oldest and most universally despised tactics. Turning a small foul into a death performance worthy of La Scala can draw cards for opposing players, kill time from the clock or just give one’s winded teammates a breather. What’s interesting about […]
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iOS games chafe under Apple’s directions: ‘If you want to criticize a religion, write a book’ | The Verge
“We view Apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate. If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical App. It can get complicated, but we have decided to not allow certain kinds of content […]
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SuperPoke Pets shuts down, leaving worthless virtual goods – Sep. 6, 2011
via money.cnn.com “Fans of SuperPoke! Pets were crushed recently when Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) announced it was pulling the plug on the game. Google killed off all but one project from social app maker Slide, which it bought last year for around…
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Discovering Talented Musicians with Acoustic Analysis
“First we analyzed audio and visual features of videos being uploaded. We wanted to find ???singing at home??? videos — often correlated with features such as ambient indoor lighting, head-and-shoulders view of a person singing in front of a fixed ca…
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Have Facebook apps really created $15B in economic value?
Has the “app economy” sparked by the Facebook platform led to the creation of almost a quarter of a million new jobs and over $15 billion in spinoff benefits for the real U.S. economy? That’s the claim made by a study released Monday by researchers at the University of Maryland: news that will no doubt make […]
