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The Secret Service Plays Video Games to Prepare for Trouble | Fast Company
The Secret Service is scrapping the tabletop model, dubbed Tiny Town, that it has used for security training scenarios over the past 40 years. Now, instead, the agency will practice on something called the Site Security Planning Tool, a kind of "Virtual Tiny Town" that uses 3-D models, game-based virtual environments, touch interfaces, and virtual disaster response scenarios to help Secret Service members prepare for the worst.
The title of strangest WTF story of my morning is Plentyoffish CEO Markus Frind recounting how his online dating site got hacked , he and his wife were harassed and someone clumsily attempted to extort his company in the aftermath of the events.
Plentyoffish CEO: We Were Hacked, Almost Extorted – So I Emailed The Hacker’s Mom
Nordstrom Acquires Flash Sales Site HauteLook For $270 Million
Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City.
Can you fire someone for disparaging your company on Facebook? | VentureBeat
(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
By now if you haven’t heard of Klout and in a moment of vanity checked your own Klout score, you’re in the online minority. Klout engenders a lot of debate about its algorithms and relevance, but regardless of opinion, the undercurrent of the conversation is that we’re heading into a world of Klout whether we like it or not. More broadly, we’re heading into a world of unprecedented measurability.
Nowhere to Hide: Assessing Your Work Reputation Online: Tech News and Analysis «
In the Future, Robots Will Surf Their Own Internet | Fast Company
If robots are to become our overlords, they will need their own Internet to communicate with each other. RoboEarth, a just-launched robot information sharing network, gets them that much closer to world domination.Livestream: Debating the National Broadband Plan : Tech News and Analysis «
As the Federal Communications Commission strives to deliver broadband access to every American under the National Broadband Plan, it faces the challenge of connecting residents — and keeping them connected — at competitive rates and with competitive features in a not-so-competitive market. Today GigaOM and the New America Foundation are sponsoring a debate between Craig Settles , an author and broadband consultant, and Blair Levin , the author of the National Broadband Plan, to discuss how America can meet the broadband needs of its citizens for the current century. Please follow along in the live stream below from 10:00 a.m.
How Bradford Cross Plans to Save the Media Industry: Tech News and Analysis «
By now, it’s become obvious that the web is disrupting the media business in some fundamental ways — and not just the distribution of content, but the monetization of it as well. Publishers and content producers of all kinds are desperately trying paywalls , metered access, iPad apps and pretty much anything else they can think of, while users are turning increasingly to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook for their news, as well as aggregation apps like Flipboard.
Paper.li Raises $2.1 Million For Social News Curation, Hits 2 Million Users
Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012.
Disney has acquired gaming startup Rocket Pack , a specialist in games which use HTML5, the latest version of the Web’s lingua franca.
Disney looks beyond apps with HTML5 game maker Rocket Pack | VentureBeat
[Editor's note: Guest columnist Tadhg Kelly has an in-depth review, below, covering a presentation recently given by veteran game developer Raph Koster at the Game Developers Conference happening this week in San Francisco.
Social Games vs Multiplayer Games: A Commentary on Raph Koster’s Social Mechanics Presentation
Social Web browser Flock just announced that it has been acquired by social gaming giant Zynga , confirming an earlier report in TechCrunch . Chief executive Shawn Hardin wrote that the deal is a “perfect fit” and that “Flock will help Zynga in achieving their goal of building the most fun, social games available to anyone, anytime – on any platform.” ( Zynga has built its massive audience on Facebook, but is now trying to diversify .) The company’s browser allows users to access their social networks while browsing other websites.
Zynga buys social browser Flock … or maybe just its engineering team | VentureBeat
This happened just after I switched to RockMelt, and all they seem to have done is ruin one two of chrome's base principles (no tooolbars and a feeble attempt at their own extension store) and missed the main issue, i.e. the base version of chrome it runs on is way behind. by Feb 13
Over the next decade, cities will continue to grow larger and more rapidly. At the same time, new technologies will unlock massive streams of data about cities and their residents. As these forces collide, they will turn every city into a unique civic laboratory—a place where technology is adapted in novel ways to meet local needs.
The Future of Cities, Information, and Inclusion | Institute For The Future
State, Local Government Agencies Reach Agreement with Facebook on Legal Concerns
And yet, just because the Pages are created doesn’t mean they’ll necessarily get popular and therefore be effective.We do not have a choice.