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Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie Excellent memo from one of the world’s most impressive technology visionaries: Ray Ozzie’s swan song as he prepares to leave Microsoft. As an employee and a shareholder I’m sad to lose him, and in many ways I …
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Two interesting “media delivery” related developments this week coming out of the sleepy little town of Palo Alto: During their latest earnings report, Netflix (NFLX) announced they now serve most of their content via streaming, vs. DVD mailers. More and more people are adopting the …
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Excellent post on TechCrunch today about the (alleged) end of the Web 2.0 era, and what the next phase of technological innovation might bring us. I’m hopeful that the industry has had its fill of “fun but silly” entertainment products (I’m throwing Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, …
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Death of a media biz icon, as reported in today’s New York Times: Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy – NYTimes.com Nobody should be surprised by this one. Today, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection. They’ll remain in operation, but they plan to close most of their stores. …
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Finally decided to clean this place up; I haven’t changed the structure of my website since about 1996, back when I mostly just used it as a place to host my resume. Web standards have advanced somewhat since then, time to try out the newer …
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This week, several folks from Turn 10 Studios (including myself) will be presenting talks at Gamefest in downtown Seattle. Pretty cool opportunity to showcase the great work we did on Forza Motorsport 3 – we’ll be giving talks on everything from Audio to Agile production to …
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Pretty cool – my first AAA video game credits, for Forza Motorsport 3: Forza 3 Credits. They’re visible in the game, but it’s nice to see it online also. I’m in the credits for other products at Microsoft (Xbox / Xbox360 / Xbox Live) but …
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Interview I did for G4TV while on the floor at the Tokyo Game Show, September 2009. This was the third day of the show, hard to tell but it’s REALLY loud in there. I’m barely able to croak out a sentence after having to almost …
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Iceholes at the 2006 Numb Bum 24 hour motorcycle ice race! Mad props to Mike Deilke for this fine video production, and tip ‘o the hat to Rush for the all-too-appropriate Canadian soundtrack. See if you can pick out your favorite members of Seattle’s …