Posted by on under development efforts, facebook, new features, launch, bugs, email addresses | 
An update to our
recent post on Facebook Connect: Facebook is pushing partners hard to be prepared for an official November 30 launch. 24 of 26 announced
launch partners have yet to integrate Facebook Connect. We've spoken with a number of them. All say they are still planning to integrate the product eventually, but complain of bugs and other issues and wasted development efforts to date. Some, afraid of policy changes that will make Facebook Connect less interesting, also say they're waiting to see the final product before launching. A number of new features are being added. One, called FriendLink, allows a site using Facebook Connect to pass email addresses to Facebook and get friend recommendations back. This allows sites to make connections between users that they may not know about yet (but that Facebook already knows about). It's a key feature that is attracting a number of partners, we've heard.
Tagi: development efforts, facebook, new features, launch, bugs, email addresses
Posted by on under insect specimen, buffalo bill, mdash, gil, crap, bugs |
I know there are people out there that are into bugs...Jame Gumb (aka Buffalo Bill) and Gil Grissom for example—but this crap is just gross. Nonetheless, if you are a budding entomologist you...
Tagi: insect specimen, buffalo bill, mdash, gil, crap, bugs
Posted by on under insect specimen, buffalo bill, mdash, gil, crap, bugs |
I know there are people out there that are into bugs...Jame Gumb (aka Buffalo Bill) and Gil Grissom for example—but this crap is just gross. Nonetheless, if you are a budding entomologist you...
Tagi: insect specimen, buffalo bill, mdash, gil, crap, bugs
Posted by on under emil pagliarulo, fallout 3, children in the game, lg campaign, depicti, washingt, subway system, med x, securom, edge magazine, ups, morphine, drm, bethesda, landmarks, controversy, launches, bugs, travelers, trailers |
Earlier this week, Bethesda released Fallout 3 after a long campaign of defending and protecting the game's reputation from claims that it contained inappropriate content. Ads for the game in Washington DC's subway system were pulled after they upset some touchy travelers over the depiction of post-apocalyptic Washington landmarks. Shortly before the game's release, early trailers were removed as well. Earlier this year, the game was banned in Australia for its in-game use of morphine, causing the drug's name to be changed to Med-X. On the issue of sensitive content, Bethesda's Emil Pagliarulo wrote in Edge Magazine about the design decision to disallow the killing of children in the game. Gamasutra ran an opinion piece on the same subject, and the Washington Post discusses the role of Washington DC in Fallout 3. On the DRM front, the game does come with SecuROM, but Bethesda says it's only used for a disc check. Reviews for the game have been overwhelmingly positive so far, despite reports of bugs with the save system and occasional lock-ups.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Tagi: emil pagliarulo, fallout 3, children in the game, lg campaign, depicti, washingt, subway system, med x, securom, edge magazine, ups, morphine, drm, bethesda, landmarks, controversy, launches, bugs, travelers, trailers
Posted by on under tokyo street, novel approaches, gizmodo, target, reticle, telling time, ants, last days, current time, graph, locks, watches, scope, bugs |
These watches from Tokyo Street take three novel approaches to telling time: one draws a target, the other makes a graph, and the last displays ants. Glowing, inscrutable little ants.
The Ever-Increasing watch slowly draws a graph of the time which, though it displays what some might call a rather predictable function, gets the point across just fine. The SCOPE II is more direct: a small targeting reticle locks onto the current time, which is arranged among a bunch of incorrect ones. Then there's the ANT.
It's not clear what each of the the ANT watch's ants symbolize, but if you take for granted that they probably correlate somehow to the current time, then you can accept that it's at least a useful icebreaker. The SCOPE II and Ever Increasing watches are priced at $180 and the ANT at $120 from Japanese ??berimporter and Gizmodo Gallery suppoter Gizmine. [Tokyo Street at Gizmine]
Tagi: tokyo street, novel approaches, gizmodo, target, reticle, telling time, ants, last days, current time, graph, locks, watches, scope, bugs
