Ok, so this was a bit of a different experience for me. I have stayed up all night plenty of times, in some interesting places, but not someplace that was quite so lively as the Bay Area Game Jam at the Microsoft SVC campus this last weekend.
Roughly 70 game developers formed 14 teams leveraging the Wild Pockets gaming platform to build games in 24 hours and compete for a variety of awards provided by Wild Pockets. Wild Pockets is BizSpark One company, and a DogPatch Labs company, led by CEO Shanna Tellerman, that we discovered at DEMO a few years ago. The Wild Pockets team had arranged for a variety of high profile judges including Noah Falstein, John Elliot, Simon Amarasingham, Tim Keenan, Mike Saperstein, Ann Burkett, Joe Dunn, Brian Green, Kevin Bjorke, and Christian Novembrino.
Some teams came ready to compete, with sound authoring systems, high end gaming PC’s, art etching pads, etc. One team, of two students from USC, finished finals week on Friday, came directly to Game Jam, and camped out for another 36 hours creating a pirate ship game.
Pirate Shippers did not win, but the detail of the ship, and ocean, by Eshan Mathur and Michael Sheenan, done in 24 hours after they finished finals was impressive. If you are looking for some game development talent, look at these guys.
I did a few presentations on developing games for Windows 7 and for the Windows Phone 7, leveraging content from MIX 10. If you are interested in doing native .NET game development, take a look at the mix content. That said, the Wild Pockets gaming platform is impressive, mostly due to the social collaboration features that allow independent game developers to share pre-built content to accelerate game development. For example, the ocean here, was leveraged from another game. This allows developers to focus on the creative game scenarios as opposed to texture and 3D surface coding.
For the second consecutive Bay Area Game Jam event, the Poindexters, consisting of Bradley Johnson, Daniel Bryner, and Chris Webb, won the event. They actually built two games and the games were declared a tie by the judges. It does not matter much, the winning team was clear. My favorite of the two Poindexter games was Eternal Velocity. You can click on the picture here to play the game – remember, 24 hours from a blank sheet to this game on Wild Pockets.
Once the game development was completed, we were entertained by a couple of rock bands, Corner Circle Jab and The One Ups, that played game jingles and riffed quite a bit. Here are some more photos from the event:
More… RedBull… Please
The winning team, the Poindexters, getting it done:
Christian Novembrino, Windows Live Games portfolio manager at Microsoft, judging the games:
Here is the full flickr feed.
You can see some of the other coverage in Social Times. I just got back in the office from DEMO Spring 2010 in Palm Springs, CA. Fortunately, I missed the two feet of snow we had in Denver, and saw 74 interesting companies at DEMO. This is also the first DEMO that I have been to since IDG began running the event. My last DEMO event was one year ago, and it was pretty bleak, with only about 40 companies, half of which were corporate product launches.
DEMO and the energy behind it, seems to be back, as well as plenty of early stage companies seeking visibility and investors. I wanted to see more, edgier, concepts and companies; but most of what was at DEMO was pretty mainstream, but, some good demos and decent variety. I also like the Alpha Pitch's which are super early stage companies that may not quite be ready for DEMO yet, but still need some visibility.
So now for Dave's Top Five from DEMO Spring 2010: just click on name to see the DEMO video.
Solvate:
Simply a fantastic demo by Julie Ruvolo and Jun Simmons and my clear DEMO Spring 2010 winner. If you have a project, and need to hire some talent to get it done, Solvate is your solution. If you are like me, LinkedIn is your social networking tool of choice. I connect with people that I want to connect with. With Solvate, you can leverage the content, and connections, in LinkedIn, to search and pivot your way to a small batch of contacts. One of the first tools, of many I am sure, that taps into the power, data and connections in LinkedIn.
GlideTV:
First time I have seen a demo at DEMO and immediately went to web site and bought the product. Combines a keyboard, a mouse, a remote control and a touchpad into a small device that fits in the palm of your hand. I have a Windows 7 machine connected to my 55 inch Samsung in my den. I also have a keyboard and a mouse and an XBOX controller on top of the coffee table to control it. Now, all I need is one device. Plug in the dongle, use the easy touchpad navigation, use the pop-up on-screen keyboard, and Media Center navigation is a breeze. Thank you!
GreenNurture: I have seen dozens of green solutions across all of the events that I go to. Many are interesting but fall short on a clear monetization scheme. Where there is money in green is by helping the global 2000 corporations both sponsor and engage conservation initiatives and my making the resulting cost savings visible to executives. GreenNurture does exactly that in an engaging, socially enabled, manner. It also helps that Derrick Mains, the GreenNurture CEO has fantastic stage presences and won the DEMO Idol karaoke contest as well. Green + Enterprise + Monetize = great startup.
Phone Halo:
This one is in my top 5 because every single person that I told about this product said, I need that. Granted, I was in Palm Springs visiting my in-laws after DEMO, but in spite of this opportunistic demographic, Phone Halo is an elegant combination of pervasive technologies and a simple solution. You attach a small, Bluetooth enabled dongle to your keys (or whatever else you don't want to lose), if you get out of range, your phone beeps, helps you track back to your keys. Even gives you a map if you leave your keys way behind. Could work for power tools, wallet, money clip, you get it.
Rentalic: Actually, rentalic was not a DEMO demo, but they were the winner of the PayPal X Developer Challenge. But, they are so cool, that I could not resist putting them in my top 5. In my cul-de-sac my neighbors and I share stuff all the time, but sometimes it is tough to track down. I work on cars, so I have a battery charger, a MIG welder, and lots of tools that come in handy, for cars. My neighbor has a big air compressor I use to blow my sprinklers out. Another neighbor has a wood shop in his basement. It would make it much easier if we could keep track of who is using what, when, and perhaps pay a little bit in the deal. That is what rentalic does. Like e-bay for rentals. Punsri – I hope it goes well for you because I can't wait to rent Ken's ski-boat.
Curse is the largest independent Massively Multiplayer Online Game site in the world. It has over 7.5 million monthly unique visitors, over 1.6 million active Curse client users, and 250 million monthly page views, and is profitable, producing more than $3 million in revenue in 2009.
The company was founded by Hubert Thieblot in 2005. Thieblot’s goal for the company is “to provide gamers with an unmatched suite of tools designed to meet their every need. Curse is a centralized hub for everything MMO - a starting point that empowers gamers in a way no other service can.”
Curse captures – and holds - the Massively Multiplayer Online gaming community’s attention by offering wikis, databases, add-on downloads, blogging, forums, and guild web site hosting - the specialized web hosting service designed to support online gaming communities. The site also offers free PC and Mac Curse clients for managing game add-ons.
Popular games played by Curse gamers include World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Aion, Runes of magic and several others. The company also owns several game-specific sites, including DiabloFans.com and AionSource.com. The company has grown by predicting what titles will be hits and setting up hubs for their communities.
Curse offers its users a basic, free membership and a premium, ad-free subscription-based membership. Advertising within e-newsletters generates additional revenues for the company.
Curse has 32 employees and is headquartered in San Francisco CA and Huntsville AL.
I’m sitting here with Kevin Mann, Chief Scientist and founder of Graphic.ly and Graham Morley, Lead Interface Designer. Graphic.ly took their social enabled comic reading platform and brought it to the Windows Phone 7 in Silverlight , with fantastic content such Marvel characters, Captain America, Iron Man, and Spider-Man. The Graphic.ly application let’s you shop for new content on their store spanning many different brands and varieties of comic novels, from mainstream comics to manga and edgier emerging comic artists. Graphic.ly also runs the comic book fan site iFanboy, giving them the most popular social platform for fan collaboration in the industry. The combination of great content, smooth, compelling navigation, direct social fan access and an ever growing comic store create a comic reading experience that is even better than paper comics.
We are watching Mike Swanson demo Graphic.ly and it really shows off the range of Windows Phone 7. I had chance to play with a Windows Phone 7 last night and yes, I was impressed. One of the constant challenges with rich media on a mobile phone is how do you get a large screen experience, onto a small device, that fits on your pocket. Using the Windows Phone 7 device you get a sense of how that is done. You can move smoothly, panning left to right, up and down, so that you feel like you are interacting with a much larger piece of content, viewing it in high resolution. This is called the “panoramic viewing experience”. And the interface is smooth, super smooth, with none of the lag and jitters that I have learned to hate on older Windows Mobile devices. Graphic.ly deployed Deep Zoom in Silverlight to allow you to pan, zoom, and truly experience the artwork in comics.
Here is the demo on YouTube.
Kevin Mann came up with the idea for Graphic.ly after being frustrated with finding the latest edition of his favorite comics. He founded the company back in January of 2009. Kevin applied and was accepted into the TechStars incubator in Boulder, CO. TechStars is one of the world’s leading startup incubators. Graphic.ly, known as Take Publishing while at TechStars, was selected as one of 10 companies, out of 600, for the summer of 2009. Kevin Mann and Thanavath Jaroenvanit joined TechStars for the summer. TechStars is a BizSpark Network Partner and enrolled Graphic.ly into BizSpark. This gave Graphic.ly a broad selection of Microsoft development tools, as well as a free subscription to Microsoft Azure for server side development. Soon after Graphic.ly completed TechStars they were able to close $1.2 M in venture funding led by DFJ-Mercury.
Micah Baldwin, a publishing and social application serial entrepreneur was one of the mentors for Graphic.ly at TechStars. Like most of the mentors at TechStars, Micah is not paid for his participation, and there is no defined “give” for Micah’s commitment of time and effort to the young startups at TechStars, but is part of a thriving startup mentoring ecosystem. This is a classic example of how Microsoft BizSpark Network Partners, like TechStars, are able to partner with Microsoft and provide all of the tools and technology to build the best solutions. Micah continued to engage with Graphic.ly and joined Graphic.ly as the CEO.
Graphic.ly is currently in private beta and will be launching their public beta shortly.
BTW – all development tools for development on Windows Phone 7 – are free for phone application development. Nice.
I often get the question, what does Microsoft do with BizSpark One companies, i.e. why should I care about that kind of engagement? I respond by discussing the companies that I have worked with and helped engage with Microsoft more effectively as well as leverage strategic and tactical Microsoft technologies, like Graphic.ly. BizSpark One represents less than 1% of the 30,000 BizSpark companies, and is focused on giving every opportunity to an exclusive select group and pro-actively working with them to help them maximize their potential.
Graphic.ly, formerly Take Publishing and creators of the Take Comics application, is one of those BizSpark One companies. Graphic.ly is less than one year old, and has leveraged Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation and the extensive touch capabilities of Windows 7. But more importantly they took an idea, "Make comic books as easy to consume as music is with a iPod", and they executed to perfection. Graphic.ly recently announced their funding of $ 1.2 M, which is a very early round and they are in good position to get more capital as they need it in the future.
So what do we, the Emerging Business Team, do for BizSpark One companies, well, here is Steve Ballmer showcasing Graphic.ly in front of an audience of 5,000 technology channel representatives at CES 2010. Those beady eyes peering over Steve Ballmer's right shoulder is the Graphic.ly application up on the main stage.
Now, Graphic.ly's success is because of their own hard work and execution. Leading up to their visibility at CES 2010 the Graphic.ly team has been clocking huge hours getting their private beta to launch and ensuring that the applications was stable and compelling for the Microsoft team to demonstrate and showcase in the Microsoft booth. Here is a shot of the bleary eyed Tony Williams in the Graphic.ly UK development office after 30+ hours of work. I remember working with Kevin Mann, Thanavath Jaroenvanit the Grpahic.ly team at the Windows 7 Incubation Week, where they originally built the touch enabled reader. They leveraged the Microsoft development platform and got the demo done in one week. This demo has evolved into their private beta application. The team is smart, super hard working, and success like their showcase at CES are the results.
And Graphic.ly is moving fast. With the leadership of Micah Baldwin, and the recent partnership with iFanBoy, Graphic.ly is combining the rich graphic viewing experience with social networking tools to create an electronic comic reading application that is more compelling, richer and more entertaining than just paper. Oh yeah, and it is all running on top of Windows Azure, but that story is for another post.
If you live in Outlook, as I do, and need help navigating your inbox and outside of the inbox, then you need Xobni. I upgraded a while ago, to Xobni Plus, soon after they launched the product during the 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, back in July. It has been inbox bliss ever since.
In one recent scenario, I had some of our Microsoft PR folks ask for a Bio on some of the executives at one of my managed startups. Off to their web site. Hmm. Still in stealth mode, no executive team profiles. Oh, well, just use Xobni. Search in the Xobni toolbar. Find e-mail contact, and all of the officers, who are likely in their network. Click on the LinkedIn icon, click on view profile, and you have the bio of whoever's e-mail you are looking at.
I am here at Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference and I am pleased to announce that now, all of you enterprise developers have Xobni Enterprise to help you connect your customer systems with Outlook. I remember back in 1999, ouch, a decade ago, when I was at Great Plains, and Bill Gates was showing off a demo I did with some of our dev team where the accounting app built and shipped an order for a networking solution leveraging VBA automation across Word, Visio and Outlook. I know how critical it is to integrate enterprise applications into Microsoft Office and it was a key recipe to our success at Great Plains.
With Xobni Enterprise, not only to you get a centralized management infrastructure for deploying Xobni across your enterprise, you also get an extensibility framework for tying in your enterprise applications, enabled by Active Directory, into Outlook. For example, imagine the LinkedIn scenario that I described above, but if you worked at a hospital and your patient scheduling system was linked to Xobni, you would be able to see a patient's schedule and perhaps insurance profile based on an e-mail inquiry. With every e-mail, you can get the context of that individual, based on your own enterprise system. Of course, some assembly required. For more info on Xobni, just go here to learn more and reach out to contact Xobni if need be.
Oh yeah, and Xobni is a BizSpark One company too. So you wonder what a BizSpark One company looks like, watch Xobni and you should be able to figure it out.
When I was a kid I collected comic books. I used to collect Flash comics and my buddy collected the Hulk. You may have as well. Comic books have evolved and now comics and graphic novels are widely popular worldwide. Worldwide the market is around $ 6 B and for every $ in comic revenue, there are a few more in merchandising revenue. Soon, you will be able to get your comics online from Take Comics.
Take had a challenge. How do you make the electronic experience richer, more compelling, more entertaining than the paper book that you are familiar with? Well, Take Comics has done that with their social network enabled and super rich reading experience. With the design skill of Kevin Mann, the technical skills of Thanavath Jaroenvanit and Tony Williams, and the business acumen of Micah Baldwin, Take is delivering.
Fortunately my peer at Microsoft, Anand Iyer, and I were engaged with Take at the TechStars incubator initiative in Boulder. The Take team and their application evolved tremendously over the summer and have matured even further over the last few months. Take also touch enabled their reader on Windows 7, at the Windows 7 Incubation Week out in Reston, VA, here is my post on that event. That engagement evolved into a relationship and now, Take Comics is a BizSpark One company. But, what does that mean?
Microsoft is a partner focused company. We build products that others, ISV’s ( Independent Software Vendors ), use to deliver products and internet services. We have a sophisticated partner management infrastructure, many of you are familiar with that infrastructure, but normally, we engage directly with the largest and most successful partners. But what if, we looked through the 20,000 or so BizSpark companies worldwide and engaged 100 of them the same way we engage the world’s largest software companies. Today, on the one year anniversary of BizSpark, we have launched BizSpark One to do just that.
And I am pleased to announce that Take Comics is a BizSpark One company. You will be seeing what that means.
Stay tuned. Tomorrow I will describe how you can become a BizSpark One company.
According to my host Gabriel, and reinforced by the 2008 award to Acate.
After 3 days in Sao Paulo, I traveled to the Brazilian island of Santa Catarina and the city of Florianopolis where the Brazilian technology incubation organization ANPTROTEC and the World Bank had a conference on developing new technology companies in rapidly developing regions like Brazil. The conference had participants from over 40 countries, but my focus was Brazil and fortunately, all of the key government and industry influentials were at the event.
In the exhibit area I was perusing what English content was around and entered the booth of the Acate incubator, which is based on Florianopolis, I met the Executive Director, Jamile Sabatini Marques, and she began to describe the Acate. During the discussion, she mentioned that another Microsoft executive was going to be visiting a few of the companies at their offices. I soon discovered that the Microsoft visitor was me. Talking with Mariana, who spoke very good English, in the Acate booth I learned of the German heritage of Santa Catarina island and the tech focused investment in the business community on the island. After a bit, my host for the Acate visit, Gabriel Sant'Ana Palma Santo arrived and we drove off from the resort to the Acate incubation center, which was about an hour away.
During the drive Gabriel educated me a bit more on the Brazilian incubators and how the government supports them throughout Brazil. As a Brazilian citizen you can propose a project and get funding up to $60,000 for your activities. Up to $4 Billion a year are invested in businesses, not all tech, through government and supplemental funding. This is not equity capital; it is a grant that does not need to be repaid. Angels and VC's can then engage the companies as they mature through the incubators; term is between 2-4 years. That is the good news. The bad news is that there is little tacit business knowledge transferred during these initial two years. I showed Gabriel the TechStars.org site and the numerous mentors and coaches that were very successful business persons. He asked how much each mentor get's paid. I said the only one who gets paid is David Cohen and his partners, who founded TechStars, when they get an exit out of one of the companies. But all of the mentors have a vested interest in transferring their knowledge, investing in the companies at some future time or building their ecosystem ( like Microsoft's purpose ). Capitalism at it's best.
Upon arriving at the Acate site I had a quick impromptu meeting with Rui Lauro Linhares, a local successful businessman that is the president of the Acate incubator. The analogy to Acate would be the Plug-n-Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley. The Acate facility has space for 20 companies and each company gets an office that can accommodate up to 6 employees. It looks like a college dormitory for startups. The first company I visited with was a SaaS HR recruiting and placement solution called KOMBO. KOMBO is built on Sugar CRM. It allows you to post a job, manage a pipeline of candidates, interview, hire and onboard the personnel. There were three folks on one side of the dorm room managing sales and three on the other side building product and the president Thiago Tavano Sammartino sitting in between running the business. Business is good and Thiago expects to achieve break even in a few months.
The next company has had some international exposure, BOOKESS. BOOKESS is essentially a publishing platform for both paper books and electronic books, such as Amazon's Kindle. I met Alessandro Ciaffone who walked through their publishing process. They are also in the process of writing a book reader – and since I am the Windows 7 guy on EBT, well, I had a few ideas on that. Again, business was healthy with international demand, and with hard bound binders worldwide and their English solution near completion, you can publish to hardback and kindle through their web based system in the near future. Oh yeah and read it on a Windows 7 tablet.
On to some more cool applications: when I was at the expo where I first met the Acate team, they had a large desktop display, about the size of a card table, that was touch enabled and you could see a profile of each company, touch it, flip it to English etc. I was sure this was WPF and I did notice that the machine was running a RC candidate of Windows 7. The company that built the application was sandbox and I was now sitting with them in their business dorm. They walked through some of the different applications that they had built, but alas, they were Flash and Flex and not WPF – of course I took the opportunity to show off some great WPF applications. Regardless, they are building touch enabled applications, using all kinds of sensory inputs, on top of whatever the client wants. I connected them with the touch and gesture library for Windows 7 which should help down the road.
And finally, I be with TalkAndWrite, who are building a touch enabled whiteboard, that can be used up on a wall like a normal whiteboard, or used at your desktop with a PC. It is peer-to-peer and uses very small bandwidth for instant communication of written whiteboard content on top of graphics being viewed by all meeting participants. They have a custom codec that they used resulted in excellent performance even over low bandwidth connections. This is key for the geographically dispersed population in Brazil and other countries and is the unique differentiator for them. Once again, gestures were key for them and I am connecting them to the Windows 7 hardware certification programs so their devices can get properly certified and get some broad visibility. Also of note that TalkAndWrite is a women led business, with Bruna Rezende and Daniela Baumgarten running the company, and I can respect that as my mother was an entrepreneur.
With a combination of the Microsoft Innovation Centers, BizSpark and our depth engagement programs, Microsoft is reaching out to the best tech companies in the world and helping them succeed. I was impressed and comforted that innovation; intellect and capitalism are alive and well, and even better on a beautiful island like Santa Catarina in Brazil.
Tchau One of my favorite aspects of working with the EBT is visiting different countries and working with our local Microsoft resources learning how Microsoft can help companies prosper in their local economies and worldwide. Over the years I have done this in the UK, Israel, France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. I have done it to some degree in Canada and China – but not directly in-country like in the other areas. I am always fascinated by the cultural differences in how to build and sustain a business.
I have an uncle who is a successful businessman in Italy ( along with my aunt and all my cousins who also own their own businesses in Italy ), I lived a bit in England, Leeds to be exact, when in High School, and traveled throughout Europe ( UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece ), studying international business in college. Even though us Americans like to think we have the best free enterprise system, entrepreneurship is alive and well worldwide and prospering today like no other time in history.
So when I go to a new country, what do I do with startups to help them be successful? It's actually quite pragmatic and involves aligning the Microsoft resources and efforts to fit with the local culture and economic trends, especially in the target markets and demographics. Unfortunately Microsoft tends to take a model that works well in Chicago and put that same model into operation in China, only to find out that that model does not work well in China at all.
Once we can support startups effectively in our local offices, then we can leverage our global presence to help startups grow into other markets. With strong local knowledge we can help companies understand how a product that is doing well, in say Brazil, may also do well in France, or Columbia. I have helped companies cross borders from France to the US, from Sweden to the UK and from Finland to China. Global market expansion does not always make sense, and costs much more than most companies predict, but when it does work, expansion can be lucrative.
My meetings here in Brazil are about to start, but I will post later this week with updates.
The teams are cranking away here at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA. BizSpark and the Microsoft Developer Evangelist team is sponsoring another Incubation Week this week, focused on Windows 7 applications. The teams spent Monday getting training on the features of Window 7, and spent Monday night getting systems set-up and running. For some reason the network was awfully slow on Monday so my team, Take Publishing, built an ad-hoc code management system with Mesh – so the code could be ooze syncing in the background all the time. I love Mesh, there are so many times when your thinking, now how do we, oh, use Mesh. Hopefully some day it will just be built into the operating system and we will have a nice 1 billion machine peer to peer share.
Late Monday night, we were all feeling a bit fried and, well, we had a few beers and kicked back. Now, a bunch of hard core geeks, in an MTC loaded with a few million dollars worth of hardware and a Surface machine can get a little interesting. And lucky for us, one of the leading Surface experts around, Russ Williams was in the house. After wondering how to turn the Surface machine on for about 20 minutes, we found him and he proceeded to show us the latest goodies on Surface. Which included an application that had some advanced physics capabilities so could manipulate the effects of attraction and gravity on objects floating around the Surface. This is where the SuperNova chips come in. Russ pulled out a bag of small round chips, about the size of a quarter, that you would put on top of the Surface. One was a SuperNova chip. It essentially represented a massive push out ( negative gravity ), so all of the animated objects on the Surface desktop moved away from the exact place where the physical chip was sitting.
You may think we were just messing around, but in fact this was all research ( he, he ). The team that I am working with here was a recent graduate of TechStars. Take Publishing is setting out to change the world of comic books and graphic novel publishing and consumption. They have a comic publishing platform, a storefront and readers for different devices. The Take Publishing team was watching how Russ manipulated the different applications on the Surface and started asking about the gestures and how they work in Windows 7. Russ said, well most of all these gestures do work in Windows 7, and that helped the team immensely in planning how a casual reader would flow through a comic book with a variety of simple gestures.
Now the Take Publishing team, and their consultants, Vertigo ( visual designers and developers extraordinaire ), have been cranking 18 hours a day putting those concepts into functioning code. You can flip through the catalogue of comics that you have downloaded and synced to your reader, and HP TouchSmart PC with 4 points of multi-touch. You can move, pan, page, zoom, and even scratch the comic to interact with it. It's better than a paper comic and in super high resolution full color so you can appreciate the artwork as well as the story. I used to have a huge collection of the Flash and Hulk comics – I would love to have those again on top of this platform. Remember when you went on iTunes and downloaded all those Deep Purple records that you threw away but never really got around to buying the CD ( if you have grey hair like me). Well you are about to do that with comics, when the Take guys are done with this application.
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Dave Drach
Managing Director, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft Corporation
Dave Drach is a Managing Director for the Microsoft Emerging Business Team. Dave works with venture capitalists and early stage start-ups around the world, helping them develop their businesses while effectively partnering with Microsoft. Most recently, Dave’s focus has been on rich client applications built on Windows 7. This includes applications and devices that use new capabilities in Windows 7 such as rich 3D, touch & sensor integration, UI, hardware, home networking, device and cloud to desktop integration.
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36 hours of code, sound, art, talent = great games
May 21, 2010
Dave’s Top Five from DEMO Spring 2010
March 31, 2010
Curse.com: The Go-To Site for Massively Multiplayer Online Games
March 17, 2010
Graphic.ly brings Spider-Man to the Windows Phone 7
March 15, 2010
Steve Ballmer Demo’s Graphic.ly at CES 2010
January 7, 2010
Gosh, I love Xobni
November 11, 2009
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The BizSpark startup of the day is crowdzone (mobiTeris), based in the US. Below you will find an interview with Murgesh Navar, CEO of mobiTeris. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day!
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