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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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However, Egg Baby--the title from newly funded Nix Hydra (www.nixhydra.com)--seems to have cracked the code for how to get new, young, female consumers to become game players. So, we started to learn some basic HTML and ActionScript, and put together a prototype, which helped us raise our first round of angel funding. READ MORE>>.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. HTML will get you modern browsers, but won't work on old browsers.

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What to Expect from Trending Web Design in 2016

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The changes are usually due to improvements in previous designs to suit current tastes and preferences. The technology behind the effect has since increased to HTML 5 canvas thus increase in commercial tools for that exact purpose. This is due to the shift of popular principle browsing device from laptops to smartphones.

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

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Goko, a new HTML5 games company based in Redwood City California is set to help game developers easily distribute and monetize social games. Goko wants to work with developers to across the world to reinvent the popular HTML board and card games. Goko was founded by Ted Griggs as CEO and Kevin Binkley as CTO.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way.

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

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.

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Angel Funding Advice

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I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built.

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