While not a very useful application, Food Fight does demonstrate the intrinsic power of playful social interaction over glitzy effects.  Food Fight, developed by David Gentzel of Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!), extends the psychology behind the poke.  As in MMORPGs like Warcraft or with virtual roses in Hotornot, users of the application spend a virtual currency on […]

Popularity: 11% [?]

That’s the subject of a short email from Mike Lanza today.  Videos using the Click.TV player will stop working as of June 8.  To those worry that this cool piece of technology will go away, Mike reassures us:
While I regret this shutdown, I am very excited by the reason behind it.  You’ll be seeing Click.TV […]

Popularity: 9% [?]

I’ve been seeing an unusual number of spam comments awaiting moderation lately.  Normally, Akismet does a great job keeping them out of the moderation queue.  The ones that do make it to the queue, I usually let expire automatically.  This new crop, I decided to delete manually.  When I did, I got this error:
Unknown column ‘pingback_views’ in […]

Popularity: 9% [?]

Sifting through the trove of ever accumulating Facebook Apps I came across one of particular interest:  Sneaky Crush.  I thought Secret Admirer would be a natural idea to implement on Facebook and now I found that someone has done it — but not by some random college kid, but by a member of the Google network […]

Popularity: 3% [?]