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Not So Casual: Microsoft To Revitalize MSN Games, Live Messenger And Bing Games

Microsoft this morning announced several new efforts to gain some ground in the booming social/casual gaming market. The company will be debuting an all-new version of MSN Games (see preview here), bring new social games to instant messaging client Windows Live Messenger and expand Bing Games internationally. Last but not least, Microsoft has struck a partnership with social games publisher CrowdStar to bring some of its most popular titles to Microsoft's various casual games properties.

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Video - So, you think you can dance? Ok fine, but how's your Geo Geek Trivia Knowledge?

So, you think you have what it takes to be the ultimate GeoGeek! Test your Geo & Tech trivia by trying to answer the questions thrown out by Esri's Andy Gup (@agup) at the Fort Collins, Co DevMeetUp that took place in October, 2010.

The BA Mobile Boarding Pass; So Right And Yet So Wrong

While boarding passes on your mobile handset have been around for a while in one form or another, I only came across them just over a year ago while flying on KLM from Amsterdam’s Schipol airport. The system was quick, easy and worked, even though some of the staff at Schipol seemed a bit confused by me whipping out my mobile when they asked for my boarding pass, rather than the conventional printed boarding pass. At the time, I wondered when British Airways would follow suit. Now more than a year later, they have. Now to be fair, this system may have been in place for a while, but if it was it escaped me. Maybe I missed an email or some junk mail about this, but the first I heard of it when when I saw that the BA app on my iPhone had a new version and after some poking around to see what was new I saw the option for a mobile boarding pass.

Why Are There So few Telecommuting Jobs?

Although relatively new, the infrastructure is in place to deliver your desktop anywhere in the world. I did it just this weekend. I woke up at 5 a.m. in my New Jersey home to support a user in London who wanted to enable pass-through USB on his XEN client. His aim: Tp sync files that he dictated into a recorder with the software on his work PC. I didn't need to go into work to do it.

I woke up at 4:50 and had no time to install Citrix GoToAssist on my PC, but it didn't matter. I XENed to my work PC - where it was installed - and ran it from there to the user's home PC. From there, I XENed to his PC at work. He was having problems connecting, so I proxied from my work PC to his London PC to restart the service, then went back to his London screen and connected.

I had four screens open: for New Jersey, New York, London Office and a London suburb. They all ran as if I was standing in front of them. (Well almost). And I did it from my ASUS netbook, which is good for surfing but not powerful enough to run, say, Photoshop. No matter, all the processing was done on the other end. I only needed broadband.


Telecommuting is ready, a search on Dice just produced just about 450 jobs that allowed it. If any industry were to adopt telecommuting, you'd think it would be IT, but the number speaks for itself. The question is why?

Do We Really Want to Tele-Commute?

The average American commutes 46 minutes a day. Chair to chair - that is, from your breakfast table to your cube - often takes much longer. So you'd think that commuters would jump at the chance to perform the same functions at home. There is, however, something to be said for the butt in the chair, and being in a meeting and laughing at someone's joke. By being there, you're not virtual, you're literal, if you will. Think of the main office supporting the branch office. The main office tends to forget about branch offices for upgrades, deployments, etc. The same will probably be more so for the coder who delivers product on time but isn't there to scream, "Happy Birthday," to the boss. Could it also be easier to lay off someone you never see?


-- Dino Londis

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Kerch Has Never Looked So Good

I’ve seen a number of cool custom maps but the map of Kerch, a tiny city in eastern Crimea, has got to be one of the better ones. If you’ve ever wondered what a Farmville-style map of a city would look like, wonder no more.

Slap A QR Code On That Product So That People Can Like It

Facebook like buttons are now everywhere on the Web—on products, status messages, and blog posts like this one. It' so easy to like things—just one click—that people do it all the time. But what about when you are walking along the street and you see something in a window that you really like, or in a magazine, or a product you are holding in your hands? Up until now, you'd have to keep those feelings of mild approval to yourself, or resort to a Tweet. But soon, you may be able to actually like those things on Facebook as you run across them in the real world by scanning a mobile QR code—those 2D bar codes that look like television snow. A new service called Likify, created by Belgian company Boondoggle Lifelabs, just launched that allows marketers to add QR codes to products and signs, and then link those QR codes to a Facebook like button. So that when someone comes along and scans the QR code with their cell phone, it triggers a Facebook "like." Nike Belgium is using the codes in Belgium in a campaign to promote their shoes by getting people to "like" different crazy-shaped jogging routes.

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So What If Google Does It?

If the Google robocars have taught us anything it's that no industry is immune to the rapidly encroaching search service's clutches. Maps? Done. Mail? Done. Translation? Done. Social? In progress. Is no startup safe from Google's finger in every pot? The folks at WhatIfGoogleDoesIt.com have decided to use crowdsourcing in order to at least give startup founders some verbal ammunition when the inevitable "What if Google does it?" question comes up during a VC pitch or demo.

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