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http://www.BetToWinNow.com Top baseball betting forums where you can get the best tips and get free baseball picks online.

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Envoyé : 07 septembre 2008
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John Battelle blogs: Not content to lease data from others who have satellites, Google today launched its own satellite into space. (Via BeetTv, thanks Andy.) Talk about web meets world....this is yet another indicator of the integration of virtual and physical. And it brings Google one step closer to what I think could be the company's Waterloo - a viral meme that Google is sensing too much, knows too much, and is too powerful. It may not be rational, but no one ever accused humans of being entirely rational. And via the linked AP article: A Delta 2 rocket carrying the GeoEye-1 satellite lifted off at 11:50 a.m. Saturday. Video on the GeoEye Web site showed the satellite separating from the rocket moments later on its way to an eventual polar orbit. The satellite makers say GeoEye-1 has the highest resolution of any commercial imaging system. It can collect images from orbit with enough detail to show home plate on a baseball diamond....

Un match de baseball qui oppose Chicago et Cleveland est entravé par un petit écureuil...

Nintendo a mis Mario Super Sluggers à l’honneur au Safeco Field, le stade de baseball de Seattle où les Mariners ont rencontré les New York Yankees. Grâce à un opening pitch original : c’est Mario qui a lancé la première balle du match! Accessoirement, Nintendo a offert des consoles Wii et des jeux Mario Super Sluggers. Une à chaque tour, soit neuf au total! Sympa.

via Wii Fanboy

Joe Blancato of GiantRealm has hit the nail on the head regarding Spore. Using a baseball analogy, he says that everything regarding Spore looks like its about to hit a home rune but unfortunately falls 10 feet short of the fence and lands in the fielder's glove. This is what makes it disappointing and prevents a good game from being great.

Working to come back from a catastrophic spinal cord injury he sustained while playing baseball in 2006, Kyle Metcalfe throws out the first pitch at last year’s Kyle Metcalfe Softball Tournament, which raised money for his medical expenses and ...

Dan "Shoe" Hsu has been writing some excellent pieces on the Sore Thumbs blog about the "behind the scenes" life of a video game journalist. (Mentally quote the word journalist if you want to make yourself feel better! -Ed.) The former Electronic Gaming Monthly editor in chief has recently been very blunt about the touchier subjects in games writing — accusations of bribery, the ethics of junkets, etc. — but now, it's the PR side's turn.
An anonymous guest blogger from an unnamed "Big Publisher" explains the dirty details of games PR, from the "banning" of editors and media outlets, to the financial arrangements publishers make with magazines and web sites to exchange coverage for good reviews, exclusives for the best reviews.
"Any good PR people working for a game publisher understand what a developer goes through, and should fight hard to get the game looked at by journalists fairly," Anonymous Guy writes. "This is not to say a bad game should get a free pass, but every game should be given a fair appraisal, with considerations made for target market and price."
Anonymous also writes that "there aren’t that many good game journalists" and that developers — just like publishers — hold many writers in high contempt. Present gaming blog excluded, I'm quite sure.
What I'm not so quite sure about, is whether I agree with the assessment that those working in the game media "are living off the blood sweat and tears of creative people who love games and regularly work 100 hours weeks." I've known more than a few folks on the press side who pour their heart and soul and time into their jobs for inequivalent compensation.
It's a fascinating, potentially eye-rolling read, should you care that much about the integrity of the industry and game writing in general. Fortunately, I feel like most of the accusations and uncomfortable situations are alien to me, as our particular circumstances aren't exactly like those of bigger print publications and web sites that employ dozens of writers, editors, designers and layers of management.
The lazy part, though. I can relate to that.
From the perspective of a game publisher [Sore Thumbs]

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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Twitter added nofollow to “www.” links in their Bio field  —  Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae's post.  This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don't live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I'd take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post it here.

In October of last year, Major League Baseball tried to claim copyright over the “facts and statistics” of their sport, which would require web sites to pay licensing fees to provide fantasy baseball to fans. The courts of our great country...

Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae’s post. This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don’t live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I’d take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post...

Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae’s post. This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don’t live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I’d take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post it here. Here’s the email:

Sorry for the delay in replying; I’m really behind on email because I’ve been talking about Chrome this past week.

The short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-backlink-tip.html . David Naylor was pointing out that Twitter intentionally nofollowed links in the “Web” part of a Twitter profile, but that you could embed a link in the “Bio” field that would flow PageRank:

Dave’s blog is read by a bunch of SEOs, including quite a few blackhats, so it was pretty clear to me that Twitter might get hit by spammers who jumped onto Twitter just to get PageRank, or by bots who signed up a ton of accounts automatically trying to get links.

I wasn’t sure of Evan Williams’ email address, so I took my best guess at two of Evan’s emails and dropped Evan a quick note pointing out Dave’s post and that spammers might start attacking Twitter soon because of this. Because I wasn’t sure of Evan’s email, I also sent Evan a Twitter saying “@ev, dropped you an email about (the post that Dave did)” That was all in July, and I forgot about it.

Evidently just in the last few days, Twitter changed that Bio link to a nofollow link. A few thoughts:

- My guess is that spammers have started to attack Twitter more, probably at least partially to get links/PageRank. In an August post at http://blog.twitter.com/2008/08/turning-up-heat-on-spam.html , Biz Stone mentioned that Twitter was hiring their first full-time spam fighter. For a company of ~25 people, a full-time spamfighter is a lot of resources. Evan/Biz have seen how dedicated spammers can hurt users’ experiences at Blogspot, so I imagine that they want to keep Twitter really clean and lock out any spammers early.

- It could be that as part of the process of looking at spam attacks on Twitter, the Twitter team asked “What are the incentives for people to spam Twitter? Are we leaking links to spammy sites anywhere?” If they were asking those sorts of questions, it makes sense if they decided to nofollow the Bio link to prevent spam accounts from attacking Twitter.

- I dropped Evan an email about Dave’s post just as a heads-up in July in case he wasn’t aware of it, but people have been talking about gaming Twitter for links even before that, e.g. http://nickwilsdon.com/do-you-want-some-followe-links-from-twitter/ :

and there’s another post someone did in March called “Gaming Twitter for Thousands Of Backlinks”:

By the way, I totally support if Evan wanted to lift nofollow for real users in some way, but I figure that Twitter probably wanted to protect themselves against spam as a first step. Given that a month or so after I dropped them a note, Twitter hired a full-time spam person, I’m not surprised if Twitter was starting to see more spammers show up and wanted to take strong action to push back on spam as a first step--if Twitter got gummed up with spam that would be bad for everybody. Perhaps down the road they’ll look at ways to keep flowing PageRank to real users while not opening themselves to a spam attack. I would imagine that they have pretty good signals that would let them separate (most) real users from (most) bots/spammers. So Twitter could take steps such that most users would still get PageRank by removing the nofollow on sufficiently non-spammy users.

Best wishes,
Matt

That’s what I sent to John by email, minus the pictures.

Burn After Reading, the latest from the Coen Brothers, makes its North American debut this year, following last year's rapturous Toronto reception for the Oscar-winning success of the tense, terse No Country for Old Men. After making No Country for Old Men, in perverse Coen-logic, the timing is clearly right for a messy, mean-spirited, profane punchy comedy. Burn After Reading is built around a classic Coen plot -- there's a valuable something out there, and various ill-equipped, dimwitted people see it as the answer to all their problems -- and the pleasure of seeing the big ensemble cast bite down hard on small parts until the juice drips down their chin is dry, funny and rich. (Brad Pitt's work alone as a fitness trainer whose I.Q. is as immeasurably low as his body-fat percentage is, bluntly, inanely great -- full of verve and conviction, and deeply funny.)

The Coens make movies about desire -- the stuff of drama -- but they often choose to make them about idiocy -- the stuff of comedy -- as well; as various characters around Washington, D.C. pursue, posses or hope to profit from a lost CD of data that an ex-CIA man (John Malkovich, fussy and hilarious) has misplaced, the plot's in part just a canvas for Coen-syle, carefully-timed punchlines and comedy so dry it'll leave your lips chapped. There's also some great inside-baseball movie-joke stuff about the cliches of every techno-thriller -- the Taiko-drum scores, the lower-left-of-the-screen-type establishing place and time, the moody shots of shadowy figures who may or may not be following our heroes -- that work in a smart, sideways fashion, too. And every actor in Burn After Reading is playing someone having some kind of mid-to-late-life freakout, grabbing at chances to be happy, and failing while flailing and spitting out four-letter words as they go down; Kim will have her full review up later, but we laughed. A lot.

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Monday, August 4, 2008, was another absolutely gorgeous day and a holiday, so this was the perfect opportunity to take my European visitors on another bike ride to explore Toronto. We headed south on the Don Valley bicycle path, and my guests remarked that there is an astounding amount of green space in this big metropolitan city. There are even opportunities for off-road mountain biking in this city. We exited the bicycle path and rode through Corktown into the Distillery District, North America’s largest collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture and a National historic site. Formerly the Gooderham and Worts Distillery, this area has undergone major changes since its inception in 1832. It went from being the largest distillery in the world in the 1860s to becoming a derelict post-industrial eyesore in the late 20th century until it was lovingly brought back to life between 2001 and 2003. Today the Distillery District houses numerous boutiques, art galleries, a variety of restaurants and cafes, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts as well as the Mill Street Brewery. During our mid-morning visit the area was slowly starting to come alive, and dozens of people were enjoying their morning coffees on the cobble-stoned plaza in the centre of the district. Our ride back along Toronto’s eastern waterfront and the Beaches boardwalk allowed us to enjoy the sun until we had to climb up the steep roads from Lake Ontario towards Kingston Road. In the afternoon I had a chance to explain the intricacies of baseball to my European friends as we watched the Brampton Astros win their regular season-ending game. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Auteur : travelandtransitions
Tags : canada ontario toronto distillery district don valley bicycle path corktown victorian era industrial architecture young centre for performing arts mill street brewery
Envoyé : 05 septembre 2008
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En grand prince, 2K Sports fait circuler les trois premières images de MLB Superstars, un jeu de baseball - mais pas seulement - destiné principalement aux jeunes joueurs américains. Le titre de Deep Fried Entertainment proposera une douzaine de mini-jeux inspirés du pachinko, du golf ou encore de l...

Joost – one of last year’s hottest startups and so far one of this year’s biggest flops – is pulling a 180 in strategy. According to Om Malik, the video service will kill off its desktop client and replace it with a Web version that will utilize a “small plugin that would embed itself in the browser and allow you to grab files using the P2P technologies”

Although the required download was long one of the biggest criticisms against Joost, the company now faces another big challenge: content. While Joost has scored a number of deals with the likes of CBS and Major League Baseball, one look at the Joost homepage tells you the current state of the company’s catalog.

With all due respect to He-Man & Shera, there is no way Joost on the desktop or the webtop can compete with the likes of Hulu, which has thousands of recent episodes of hit shows like The Office, The Daily Show, and House, just to name a few. Considering Hulu is backed by News Corp and NBC Universal, it’s doubtful Joost will be able to do much to improve its catalog either, since Hulu’s huge competitive advantage is its access to content. Making things even worse, Joost’s own investor and partner CBS has many shows available on its website that are nowhere to be found on Joost.

While shifting to a Web-based product is a much needed move, it seems like too little, too late, unless the company also makes a radical shift in content strategy. At the moment, Joost – which has raised $45 million - has essentially become like a lower tier cable channel, which simply doesn’t work online because of the infinite number of alternatives.

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Le genre de souris avec lesquelles il faut oublier tous vos besoins en terme d'ergonomie, de précision et de confort... Mais pour les fans de baseball 4 Vote(s)

Headoverheels a sorti une nouvelle version de FBA2x qui émule sur GP2X certaines bornes arcade comme le CPS-1 et 2 ou la NeoGeo, des jeux Cave ou encore des shoot them up de Branpresto comme Mazinger Z.
Modifications :
- Remplacement du noyau Z80 de MAME par le noyau CZ80. Mazinger Z et Metamoqester tournent plus rapidement.
- Petites optimisations dans le rendu générique des tiles.
- Désactivation du cache de la lecture du kernel.

Nouveaux jeux supportés :
- Jeux Cave :
Power Instinct 2 (pwrinst2, pwrins2j) (cache requis)
Power Instinct Legends (plegends, plegendj) (cache requis)
- Matériel de Tumble Pop :
Tumble Pop bootleg (tumbleb (bad sound), tumbleb2)
Jump Kids (jumpkids)
Metal Saver (metlsavr)
Pang Pang (pangpang)
Super Trio (suprtrio)
Hatch Catch (htchctch)
Cookie & Bibi (cookbib)
Choky! Choky! (chokchok)
Wonder League Star (wlstar)
Wonder League '96 (wondl96)
Fancy World - Earth of Crisis (fncywld)
SD Fighters (sdfight)
B.C. Story (bcstry, bcstrya)
SemiCom Baseball (semibase)
Date Quiz Go Go (dquizgo)
Jumping Pop (jumppop)
- Matériel de Ninja Gaiden :
Shadow Warriors (shadoww, shadowwa, gaiden, ryukendn, ryukenda)
Tecmo Knight (wildfang, tknight)
Raiga - Strato Fighter (stratof, raiga)
Dragon Bowl (drgnbowl)
- Unico:
Burglar X (burglarx)
- ESD16:
Multi Champ (multchmp, multchmk)
Multi Champ Deluxe (mchampdx, mchampda)
Head Panic (hedpanic, hedpanif)
Tang Tang (tangtang)
SWAT Police (swatpolc)

Corrections de jeux :
- Guwange (guwange)
- Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition (hsf2, hsf2j) (cache required)
- Aero Fighters (aerofgt, aerofgtb)
- Turbo Force (turbofrc)
- Karate Blazers (karatblz)
- Spinal Breakers (spinlbrk, spinlbru, spinlbrj)

 

Take-Two Interactive, still hot in talks with Electronic Arts (supposedly) over their merger, has sent in its financial statement for the previous fiscal quarter.The report reveals their line-up of games for the next year. What does that "fiscal" there mean exactly? It means we can't expect those games to come out before November 1 of this year.

One title to note in the list is Grand Theft Auto IV's PC version, which will come out on November 18 in the US, which lands on the next fiscal year. Other titles to take note of are BioShock 2 (whose platforms are yet to be announced), Borderlands, Mafia II, and GTA: Chinatown Wars. Here's the full list:

• BioShock 2 (Platforms TBA)
  
• Borderlands (Xbox 360, PS3, Games for Windows)
• Champions Online (TBA [MMOG])
• Grand Theft Auto: IV (PC)
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (DS)
  
• Grand Theft Auto IV episodic content (Xbox 360)
  
• Mafia II (Multiple Platforms)
  
• Major League Baseball 2K9 (Multiple Platforms)
• MLB Superstars (Wii)
  
• NBA 2K10 (Multiple Platforms)
• NHL 2K10 (Multiple Platforms)

Midnight Club: Los Angeles, however, was delayed yet again, this time for two weeks. It's new release date in the US is now October 21.


Related Articles:

• Rockstar Games offers 'No comment' on Grand Theft Auto IV PC version
• Rumor: Electronic Arts walks away from merger with Take-Two

 

Take-Two Interactive, still hot in talks with Electronic Arts (supposedly) over their merger, has sent in its financial statement for the previous fiscal quarter.The report reveals their line-up of games for the next year. What does that "fiscal" there mean exactly? It means we can't expect those games to come out before November 1 of this year.

One title to note in the list is Grand Theft Auto IV's PC version, which will come out on November 18 in the US, which lands on the next fiscal year. Other titles to take note of are BioShock 2 (whose platforms are yet to be announced), Borderlands, Mafia II, and GTA: Chinatown Wars. Here's the full list:

• BioShock 2 (Platforms TBA)
  
• Borderlands (Xbox 360, PS3, Games for Windows)
• Champions Online (TBA [MMOG])
• Grand Theft Auto: IV (PC)
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (DS)
  
• Grand Theft Auto IV episodic content (Xbox 360)
  
• Mafia II (Multiple Platforms)
  
• Major League Baseball 2K9 (Multiple Platforms)
• MLB Superstars (Wii)
  
• NBA 2K10 (Multiple Platforms)
• NHL 2K10 (Multiple Platforms)

Midnight Club: Los Angeles, however, was delayed yet again, this time for two weeks. It's new release date in the US is now October 21.


Related Articles:

• Rockstar Games offers 'No comment' on Grand Theft Auto IV PC version
• Rumor: Electronic Arts walks away from merger with Take-Two