Archive forJuly, 2009

OpenID for Google Apps is Here, But Not Everybody’s Happy (ReadWriteWeb)

Google announced today that everyone using Google Apps enterprise or education editions can now use their organization’s domain as a federated single sign-on. That means that millions of schools, businesses and other organizations can now use their Apps accounts as an OpenID . tweetmeme_url = ‘http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/07/openid-for-google-apps-is-here.php’; tweetmeme_source …

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Free games draw ‘em in, then offer pay upgrades (USA Today)

There’s free, and then there’s “freemium.” Free online game destinations such as Disney’s Club Penguin and RuneScape have drawn millions of younger players with no-cost, often ad-supported offerings, then made money by encouraging folks to chip in for additional access and features.

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News: Jagex gives Jon Hare top job (Eurogamer)

Sensible Soccer, now RuneScape. Jon Hare and his hair have been appointed head of publishing at Jagex, which makes web-based MMO RuneScape, which makes lots and lots of money. Herr Hare has videogame experience spanning 24 years, during which he has developed for over 20 platforms and made over 30 games - the most famous ones being Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder. His new role has him …

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Today: H 21 /L 13 (Guelph Mercury)

Poorly designed - but free - online PC games are a dime a dozen. Which means gamers who download Sony Online Entertainment’s Free Realms are in for an exciting treat.

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Tween gamers get in on the MMO action with ‘Free Realms’ PC game (Kitchener - Waterloo Record)

Poorly designed - but free - online PC games are a dime a dozen.

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Customer Service (Brandon Sun)

Poorly designed - but free - online PC games are a dime a dozen. Which means gamers who download Sony Online Entertainment’s “Free Realms” are in for an exciting treat.

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Why Enterprises Don’t Like SaaS (ReadWriteWeb)

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked all of the vendors, “SaaS or on-premise?” The assumption, because this conference was all about modern 2.0 stuff, was that everyone would say, “SaaS, of course.” Wrong. At least 50% of the vendors were deploying primarily on premise. Even some of the pure SaaS crowd would admit to an occasional on-premise deployment. Anecdotally, even some of those who …

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Masterclass: Virtual worlds (Revolution)

With a captive audience of young, web-savvy trend setters, virtual worlds such as Second Life can be fertile territory for brands. Mike Fletcher reports.

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Sun launches private beta of the Java Store (Geek.com)

Last month Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz made a new blog post and video discussing how the company intended to go forward with Project Vector. Vector turned out to be a Java app store, working much like the store many of us use to buy apps for our iPhone and iPod touch. The maturity of the Java […]

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Sun Launches an App Store + Ellison on Sun’s Future (O’Reilly Media)

As Schwartz touts the massive market penetration of Java on “Billions of PCs and Mobile Devices”. Sun introduces a Java-centric App Store to bring the advantages of this distribution to Java application developers. Scott McNealy invites Larry Ellison to the stage to talk about the future of Java, how JavaFX is better than AJAX, and how he intends to compete with Google’s Android.

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