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HTML5 Games Company Goko Launches and Raises $8M in Series A Funding

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Goko wants to work with developers to across the world to reinvent the popular HTML board and card games. Goko CEO Ted Griggs said that for long it was only big game companies that had tools for creating and launching social games but Goko was ending that.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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We recently ran into Chris Tragos , one of the co-founders of Jetpack (www.jetpack.net), provider of an online ad platform. Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media. Those folks are any tool they can find to help them, any new tool they find. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens. When web browsers (the programs that can read and interpret HTML) were popularized they were “dumb.” The costs of multi-platform development are too expensive.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

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if that was my chosen messaging platform. In fact, if Ning cared about making a really powerful tool for distribution discussion, it would allow the discussion to range across all of the channels with each user controlling the flow of the messages. They could also do this through SMS, Twitter, etc. Bottom line - Don’t be a Ning!

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AT&T Mobile App Hackathon | Superheroes & Geeks, Only in Hollywood!

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The Hackathon introduced attendees to the latest cutting edge tools fully hosted on the cloud. Developers were allowed to code in any language they were most comfortable with including Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, and XNA. There were many cool apps created over that weekend.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others.