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Creative Word-Wielding Adventure video Game , Scribblenauts, Wins for Best Handheld Game and Innovation Award; Other Big Winners Include Batman: Arkham Asylum, Farmville, Flower and Torchlight Naughty Dog’s critically-acclaimed Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the big winner at the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, presented at a ceremony this evening at UBM TechWeb Game Network’s 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC), receiving a total of five awards, including Best Writing and the coveted Game of the Year award. Another major honoree, 5th Cell received the award for Best Handheld Game and the Innovation Award, for its creativity-fueled portable game, Scribblenauts. Zynga, creators of the wildly addictive and popular Facebook game, Farmville, received the honor for Best New Social/Online Game, marking the first winner for this inaugural category.

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Uncharted 2 Wins Game of the Year @ 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

Duarte Blog > Sneak Peek: resonate Cover Design – Nancy Duarte posted a sneak peek of her next book's cover on her blog late yesterday looking for feedback… swing by, check it out and leave your two cents. You may also enjoy: Duarte’s Five Rules for Presentations [Rewind] Rewind] Creating Powerful A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion

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VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for March 12th

By Rick Wilson When I look around both the technology industry as a whole and the hosting industry specifically, I see an interesting phenomenon that’s become the “norm”. Many of us got into tech and hosting because we liked technology and wanted to use the latest and greatest hardware and that led to an expertise and we monetized that expertise by building businesses in this space.

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Technology is a Commodity Solutions are a Premium

Webmaster Level: Intermediate Did you know that a majority of users surveyed feel that having information in their own language was more important than a low price? Living in a non-English-speaking country, I’ve seen friends and family members explicitly look for and use local and localized websites—properly localized sites definitely have an advantage with users

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Working with multi-regional websites

A month ago I told you I was experimenting with a new portfolio design. Since then, and in between client work, I’ve been doing what I can to beef-up the case studies with larger contextual images, sketches, and mind-maps. The aim was to finally point the portfolio buttons here on my blog over to the new portfolio site

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New portfolio complete

It’s the end of the week, so let’s look at one of this more light-hearted stories from the past few days… Apparently, more than 10 billion tweets have been sent on Twitter since the micro-blogging service was launched in 2006. That’s a lot. The tabloid press will undoubtedly come up with metaphoric comparisons to show just how big 10 billion is.

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10 Billion Tweets and Counting…

The everyday in-the-trenches part of working for yourself can not only be all-encompassing and constant, but it’s also necessary. After all, it’s these small incremental actions you take everyday that provide the value to your customers and essentially pay the bills.  Plus, many of us find that it’s difficult to set aside time for any activities that don’t directly result in income. But despite the time challenge, there are several indirect business processes you should dedicate time to if you want to maximize your potential for growth.

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12 Ways to Think “Big Picture” and Why You Should Bother

Blogging has come a long way since I started first reading blogs and since my first blog post  (old blog on typepad).  They have evolved from a pure publishing one to many model into a two way system where follow/follower, comments, reblogs, and “likes” provide a whole new experience.  But one thing I’ve noticed is that a blog post may receive a fair amount of interaction on the first day, little if any interaction on day 2 and it drops off big time after that. Even though Google directs a nice chunk of traffic to older posts, the interaction is still low. Compare that with an message board.

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The life span of a blog post

Whois domain name IP address tool Whois, domain name, IP address tools is a versatile website toolkit most website owners and webmasters will find very useful. It provide basic information about a web address such as a domain name availability or nonavailability, it suggests alternative domain names where the desired domain name is not available. Domain name IP address tools also provides comprehensive web address information including IP address, detailed information about the remote server such as the kind of OS software running it is running, what version, what dependencies etc etc

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Whois Domain Name IP Address Tools

His unique experience enables him to provide inspiration on this wired-up world of work and strategies for how business can prepare themselves for the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies. His unique experience enables him to provide inspiration on this wired-up world of work and strategies for how business can prepare themselves for the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies

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Trojan mice approach enterprise 2.0

This is a follow-up to the Getting Information About Objects, Types, and Members with Expression Trees post, so I would recommend that you read that one first. Among other code examples in that blog post, I demonstrated how you can get a property name as a string by using expression trees.

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How can I get objects and property values from expression trees?

But how do you make sure you’re ready to act the minute an opportunity presents itself (or at least not very long afterward)? Just be sure to go through all applications and places where you currently keep information about contacts, including your email and social networking accounts , past blog entries (for example, if you interviewed someone for your site or they provided a guest post), and anywhere else you might find a long-lost resource

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The Power of Your Little Black Book

Setting up a website does not necessarily require a high level of web development skill; rather what it needs is an inquisitive set of mind and nothing else. If you are familiar with Joomla, you know it already how easy it is to set up a website on Joomla . However, if you are not familiar with Joomla, you might have to struggle at the initial stage, but with these tips, which are described below, you will be able to make things simple for you

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Tips To Set Up a Joomla CMS Website

Florist business cards are a great way to promote a flower shop business. To help you come up with stylish and elegant florist business cards that accurately reflect the type of products and service that you provide, we are presenting today two variations of florist business cards. The first template looks very stunning in red and white color scheme

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Beautiful Florist Business Cards in Red and Yellow [del.icio.us]

Here is a set of high-resolution Photoshop brushes featuring 18 decorative easter eggs that you can use for your Easter cards, posters or party invites. Each of the decorative easter egg brush has a unique design.

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Decorative Easter Eggs to Welcome Spring 2010 [del.icio.us]

They loved it for what it was, for what it could be, and for the opportunity it presented to them – a newly fallen bowl of virgin powder, into which clever and entrepreneurial programmers could strap it on and push off to lay fresh tracks. Announcing The Fifth Annual CM Summit: Theme and Initial Lineup (FM blog ) I had to remind you of this, didn’t I? I’m not claiming to be deeply informed about the app marketplace, which Google stirred up today (and, to my mind, the market could use a few more spoons).

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Thursday Signal – Repeat After Me: Apps Are (Currently) Myopic (Or…We’ve Seen This Movie Before…)

There is a web site where they are loading the presentations at [link] (as I mentioned in a previous post, I gave a talk about my experiences in Second Life at the first seminar in October). The sessions today included Anna Peachey giving a personal perspective on the children’s virtual world, Club Penguin; Diane Carr and Andrew Burn (Institute of Education) talking about their projects to do with learning and practice in Second Life and World of Warcraft (the blog /website is at [link] ); and Christopher Walsh talking about an Australian project using games in a number of imaginative Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Children and young people’s digital literacies

We’re looking for proposals for case study presentations from within the Asia Pacific region to share what you have done and what you have learned. Day 1 will be a closed practitioner’s forum for the conference speakers and case study presenters only. The day will be designed for dialogue rather than presentations

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Blog>> Call for Case Presenters: Asia Pacific Business Narrative Conference 2010

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone for coming and saying hi. I had a blast! I’m excited to be presenting at the Digital Media Artists / LA meeting next week and hopefully you will can join the fun. It’s a free meeting from 6pm-10pm in Los Angeles but you need to register and last year it sold-out pretty quick.  Please stop by, it was great meeting so many of you last year.

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Presenting at DMA / Los Angeles on Tuesday

An all-star cast gives voice to the galactic-sized animated sci-fi 3D animation adventure comedy Planet 51, blasting off on DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on March 9, from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. An out-of-this-world adventure for both children and adults, the CG animated film features the voice talents of Dwayne Johnson (Race to Witch Mountain), Jessica Biel (TVs Seventh Heaven), Justin Long (Alvin & the Chipmunks 2), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight), Seann William Scott (American Pie franchise) and John Cleese (Monty Python)

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PLANET 51 on Blu-ray and DVD