YouTube – m0serious’s Channel
The SEO rapper. Hilarious. Sadly, I may have many people I know watch them as his basics are rather good…
Monthly Archives: March 2008
What I bookmarked today
KidZui – The Internet for Kids
Babble – The Magazine and Community for a New Generation of Parents
An online parenting magazine and community
Skip*Hop
Diaper Dude – Welcome!
Rock Star Momma
A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die
So funny, I am developing out registrations schema and this comes up this week…
What I bookmarked today
Siteworx – Webinar User Experience
* Advanced techniques such as Eye Tracking and Session Analysis that help you gain previously unavailable insight into your customers’ underlying motivations.
* How leading companies are gaining competitive advantage and improving results by connecting with online audiences and engaging their needs.
* How to get started if you haven’t yet focused on User-Centered Design or don’t yet have the metrics you need to evaluate the effectiveness of your Web properties.
* The fact that User-Centered Design work is often the most cost effective method of improving your website(s) and has exceptional ROI.
* How leading companies are gaining competitive advantage and improving results by connecting with online audiences and engaging their needs.
* How to get started if you haven’t yet focused on User-Centered Design or don’t yet have the metrics you need to evaluate the effectiveness of your Web properties.
* The fact that User-Centered Design work is often the most cost effective method of improving your website(s) and has exceptional ROI.
Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Contribute
Obama wants to go to dinner with 5 small donor contributors. So cool. I heart Obama.
The Funniest Flowcharts on the Internet! – MMOABC.com | MMORPG Community | MMORPG Portals | MMORPG Guild Hosting
MMOABC.com is a premier free MMORPG gaming community with guild hosting, news, blogs, groups, pictures, videos, games, forums and more!
MENOMENA!!!
i think this is my new favorite band. not just there music, but this amazingly designed site. hehehe.
trigga_hiccups
What I bookmarked today
PWNED.COM – A Society of Gamers :: Narticle :: Missbimbo.com: A Site For Young Girls?
Missbimbo.com story hit HARD today. Everyone is mad about it. I think I got 4 emails in a n hour with long rants. I hope it comes out that it is a joke…
What I bookmarked today
THE RATINGS RANKINGS : Next Generation – Interactive Entertainment Today, Video Game and Industry News – Home of Edge Online
Matt Matthews explores game review averages and game output for the major publishers over the past three years. Who’s on top, who’s at the bottom, and what does it mean for 2008?
Game Developer Research – In-Depth Game Research
Game Developer Research is pleased to announce the debut of its third report, the ‘Game Developer Top 20 Publishers 2007 Survey’. This detailed supplement to the fifth Top 20 Publishers countdown, which appears in basic form in the October 2007 issue of Game Developer magazine, reveals the numerical reputation scores, written comments, and anonymous partner feedback for the major game publishers in this year’s countdown, alongside game release and average review score specifics by platform.
Micro Persuasion: Three Internet Careers That Soon Won’t Exist
Steve Rubel explores technology and its impact on marketing communications.
Email Marketing & Surveying Software – iContact
iContact is an Email Marketing and Surveying Application that makes it really easy to create, send, and track email newsletters, surveys, and autoresponders. Sign up for a 15-day FREE trial.
Mytopia
app for social networks, but has no age verify nor any filters on the chat. can you say targeted to kids too with the design?
What is a good credit score? – The Credit Scoring Site
Finally, a way to tell what good credit is. They actually come right out and give numbers. But wait a minute…
New post on Chuggington’s Production Blog
Hi all!
Our team just got back from Shanghai, self included, and we were able to shoot some footage with a couple of our team leads. Check it out and let me know what you think. the team was really excited to participate and if these go over well, I think I will be doing tons more interviews with other team leads on our next trips over there. 
Also using DotSub for the first time, a crowdsourcing translation program. We will see how it works out.
International teams are cool, eh?
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Tags: international, China, Shanghai, Motion Magic, DotSub, translation, Chuggington, preschool, cartoons, animation
What I bookmarked today
PHP/SWF Charts > Introduction
A simple, yet powerful PHP tool to create attractive web charts from dynamic data.
Fray: The Quarterly of True Stories
Fray Asks: What kind of Geek are you?
Tell fray what kind of a geek you are
ariadne > Blog
Olympics ARG care of Jane McGonagall
What I bookmarked today
Online Games by the Hundreds, With Tie-Ins – New York Times
By entering the online-game sector, media companies can attract advertising, including from food companies that have agreed to limit the nature and volume of television ads aimed at children.
Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com
Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business
Looking for a job?
Starting to look for a really good interactive designer to work on the web site and games for our Chuggington property (and more as it develops). I already spammed many of you if we are connected on LinkedIn, but I thought this would be a good a place as any to post that we are looking. Please forward this link to anyone you know in Chicago that’s looking.
Thanks! – Joi
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Company: Ludorum
Job Title: Interactive Designer
We are looking for a full time Interactive Designer for our children’s entertainment company.
Ideal candidate would:
- live in Chicago,
- have a fabulous and diverse portfolio online,
- have successful experiences with working remotely some of the time and
- really dig the idea of working with kids brands.
This person’s primary responsibilities would be working with
pre-existing and in-development assets and translating the brands into
various multimedia formats.
We need you to:
- have a strong UI design background,
- be able to work on Macs with Adobe products,
- have a deep interest in online game design, and
- have a skill set that includes extensive experience in HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, and Flash.
Our small team has a start-up feel and requires a rock-star who is
inspired by new developments in our industry and driven to innovate
whenever and wherever possible.
If interested in more info (and there is tons more info), please
send an email telling me about yourself with a link to your work online
(joi.podgorny@ludorum.com).
Sorry, but we need you to live in Chicago, at least initially.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE.
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Tags: interactivedesigner, jobs, web, virtual worlds, chicago, mmo, preschool, chuggington
What I bookmarked today
Virtual Worlds News: Toy Fair Goes Virtual: 11 New or Expanded Toy-Based Worlds
Virtual Worlds News is the source for virtual worlds business news, strategy, insight and analysis.
Virtual Worlds News: Gaia Costs $25M per Year
Virtual Worlds News is the source for virtual worlds business news, strategy, insight and analysis.
Seapals – Coming Soon
Innovation 1-on-1: Chris Heatherly of Walt Disney Co. | Matter/Anti-Matter – A blog on product design and innovation from frog design – CNET Blogs
As part of our Innovation 1-on-1 series, we chat with Chris Heatherly, vice president of technology and innovation for consumer products at Walt Disney Co.
