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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.

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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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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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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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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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This article is a practical guide designed to help webmasters who already know what they want to block. As I mentioned toone user who asked me for help, trying to block all undesirable bots from your site is like trying to rid the world of pests.Swat one, and another few will take its place. Should I Use PHP or HTML for My Website?

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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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. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. Don’t Stop Believing. The Present Era.