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Dolphin Spotted In Newtown Creek

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WHAATT? Dolphins in Queens? That is just nuts!

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March 3rd, 2010 at 4:09 pm

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Top 25 Facebook Games for February, 2010

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Just to keep everyone informed on the web. Big HUGE numbers for FarmVille. Now you know why you get some many updates.

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March 2nd, 2010 at 11:46 am

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The Economics of Getting Drunk

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Good stuff we all need to know.

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February 28th, 2010 at 8:56 pm

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My mother as I explain my phone

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Edelmira Ventura. My mother, an educator, an activist, a Puerto Rican and a New Yorker.

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February 28th, 2010 at 4:56 pm

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Online Game Disruption – Take everything, everything? EVERYTHING!

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We've yet to see a big portal or game site take EVERYTHING.  None of the older sites, have taken the long tail approach and accepted every game that comes their way.

Sure,  Kongregate is trying with it's tag line "The YouTube of Games" but they are still more of a niche.  Sure, Mochi Media takes everything but they are in the distribution business rather than a portal.
I am talking about a site that has the AAA traditional casual games,  mixed with the weird and wacky of the wild west Flash game market.
Think, MSN Zone + Mochi Media's Library.  How big a site could that be?   How many eyeballs could you get?

It goes back to the saying (no I don't know where it came from) "Aggregate or be aggregated"  The site that has 20,000 games with the filters to match the content,  will be the winner of the online game space.
Screw the YouTube of games,  I want to be the ESPN of online games!

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February 22nd, 2010 at 6:29 am

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Great web trends regarding user experience.

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Things I basically knew and had in my brain but wasn't able to clarify. (Very typical me)

1.Services as Software
Usability testing of websites can be crowdsourced or semi-automated
2. User Experience Analytics
Trying to find better web metrics that measure meaning.
3. Content Strategy
This is a key point and something I am happy to say AOL has.  We have a strategy of how we create content.
4. Return of the Mobile Web
Design for as broad a platform as possible and that to me means,  mobile websites.
5. A Real Experience Economy
People seek authentic experiences.  They are starved for it.  It's why you can be a jerk, curse and still have people like you because you say what you mean. (I'm living proof of this)
Read the full article here:

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February 21st, 2010 at 5:22 pm

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The final stretch home

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102nd street heading east towards 3rd avenun.  The 23rd precinct is on the right side.

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February 19th, 2010 at 8:31 pm

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Aol.’s own “Portait of Dorian Gray”

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February 19th, 2010 at 2:08 pm

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Another day in the books in the online games business.

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Meat Grinder - LoI appreciate people who grind at work

Today was about admiration.  Admiration for what some people are capable of and admiration for for the things I can’t do.

I work with people who can grind.  Grind though daily repeatative tasks like those crazy giant bulldozers on Pandora (first Avatar reference of the day). Its a special skill to have and I think takes practice.  Its unreal to me that some folks can sit, focus and annialate their to-do lists like a lion eats.  Anyway enough with my bad annologies.  Here’s to you folks, because it is not something that comes easily to me or do I enjoy. 

I would say if you hired me to grind, you are wasting my talents.  Give me chaos, give me things going wrong or let me analyze quickly and I’ll come up with some hot shit. I have a quick scattershot brain with lots of ideas and cacamaimi thoughts in it.  Thoughts need to be freed!  
You need a grinder?  I am not your man.  Don’t get me wrong, I am capable of a good grind now and again when I am grinding with purpose – to grind for the sake of the grind?  Blech.
Here’s to you grinders! Huzzah!

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February 19th, 2010 at 9:11 am

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The Morning Commute – 103rd Street.

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Taken from the downtown train platform towards end.  There has always been an odd gap in the columns in this spot.  Image is of the uptown platform.

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February 19th, 2010 at 7:50 am

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