{"id":1968,"date":"2009-09-01T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2009-09-01T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T08:03:46","slug":"megapost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/01\/megapost\/","title":{"rendered":"MEGAPOST!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to leave webpages open until I have a chance to get back to them, but the number of windows and tabs that I have open in Firefox is getting ridiculous. <\/p>\n<p>I figured that I&#8217;d post a sort of executive summary &#8211; and then I can close everything and just refer back to this post. Here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Independent Game Development (and Game Competitions):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamecareerguide.com\/features\/776\/truly_independent_game_.php\">Truly Independent Game Development: A Case For Making Games By Yourself<\/a>: Thank you Lindsay, for <em>gracing<\/em> us with this article. Haw. Haw.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.2beegames.com\/\">2-Bee Games<\/a>: Home of the Indie Game Competition B2 Judgement Day. (Submissions close in 2 weeks).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/contests\/register\/stonkinggreatgame_09\">Stonking Great Game Contest<\/a>: Create a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/zero-punctuation\">Zero Punctuation<\/a> themed game. (Submissions close October 19)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Starting a Business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausicom.com\/\">Australian Institute for Commercialisation<\/a>: Apparantly completely unaffiliated with Australia&#8217;s Funniest Commercials.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbdc.com.au\/index.asp\">Small Business Development Corporation<\/a>: A bunch of useful stuff including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbdc.com.au\/drilldown\/drilldown.asp?refid=1\">notes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbdc.com.au\/drilldown\/drilldown.asp?refid=2.30.5\">workshops<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbdc.com.au\/drilldown\/drilldown.asp?refid=1.11\">checklist<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Diary of a Social Venture Start-up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/diary-of-a-social-venture-start-up-building-your-team\/\">Building Your Team<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/diary-of-social-venture-start-up-the-business-plan-2\/\">The Business Plan<\/a>. Actually, let&#8217;s have more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/2006\/01\/the_zen_of_busi.html#axzz0Ogw9oWLe\">Zen of Business Plans<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garage.com\/resources\/writingexecsum.shtml\">Compelling Executive Summaries<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marketing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netpress.org\/careandfeeding.html\">The Care and Feeding of the Press<\/a>:  A guide for press relations staff (or those who play them on TV)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devmag.org.za\/news\/247\/\">Building Buzz for Indie Games<\/a>: References this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/4117\/building_buzz_for_indie_games.php\">gamasutra article<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devmag.org.za\/articles\/78-ZERO-BUDGET-INDIE-MARKETING-GUIDE\/\">Zero Budget Indie Marketing Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monetisation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mochimedia.com\/\">Mochimedia<\/a>: Advertising and micropayments APIs for Flash games.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashgamelicense.com\/\">Flash Game License<\/a>: The place to buy and sell Flash games; it&#8217;s like a B2B marketplace.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.come2play.com\/\">Come2Play<\/a>: Multiplayer API for Flash games&#8230; and they pay you to use it?! (includes sexually suggesting explanatory video).\n<li>iPhone Sales Numbers: for <a href=\"http:\/\/firemint.com\/blog\/?p=123\">Flight Control<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streamingcolour.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/the-numbers-post-aka-brutal-honesty\/\">Dapple<\/a> (with bonus brutal honesty), <a href=\"http:\/\/bang2d.com\/?p=64\">Mouse House<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fieryferret.com\/2008\/10\/rebound-development-app-store-story.html\">Rebound<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markj.net\/iphone-hit-tennis-sales-stats-marketing\/\">Hit Tennis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2008\/08\/12\/sega-pleased-by-substantial-iphone-super-monkey-ball-sales\/\">Super Monkey Ball<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2008\/9\/iphone-developer-i-ll-do-anything-apple-tells-me-to-do-i-just-made-250k-on-the-app-store-in-two-months-aapl-\">Trism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garagegames.com\/community\/blogs\/view\/17991\">Surf Prodigy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taptaptap.com\/blog\/final-numbers-for-july\/\">Where To? and Tipulator<\/a>&#8230; hmmm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photonstorm.com\/archives\/408\/kyobi-sales-figures-and-1-in-bigfishgames-online-top-10\">maybe Flash is better?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WordPress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instinct.co.nz\/e-commerce\/\">WordPress e-Commerce plugin<\/a>: Oh wait: the &#8220;famous&#8221; WordPress e-Commerce Plugin. Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/speckyboy.com\/2008\/10\/23\/10-powerful-shoppingecommerce-plugin-solutions-for-wordpress\/\">these other ten<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrastheme.com\/\">Arras Theme<\/a>: Looks pretty&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/demo.arrastheme.com\/\">live demo<\/a> looks messed up for me in Firefox though (alignment issues).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.tv\/2009\/06\/08\/create-an-ecommerce-website-with-wordpress-in-under-5-minutes\/\">How-To Create an eCommerce Website with WordPress in under 5 minutes<\/a>: Just because the video is under 5 minutes, doesn&#8217;t mean the actual time taken will be.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.tv\/category\/how-to\/gravatar\/\">Gravatars<\/a>:&#8230; I should probably have one.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Random:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.k2xl.com\/games\/boomshine\/\">Boomshine<\/a>: Simple, yet elegant and &#8220;moreish&#8221; Flash game &#8211; also available for iPhone.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lucylou.livejournal.com\/574975.html\">Summer Pickle Recipe<\/a>: I think that I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucyknisley.com\/\">Lucy Knisley<\/a>&#8230; that or pickles&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/lucylou.livejournal.com\/575044.html\">cats<\/a>. (Also, her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/allpics.bml?user=lucylou\">userpics history<\/a> is great.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindcipher.net\/puzzle\/115-three-idols\">Three Idols<\/a>: Apparantly crazy-hard logic puzzle. Haven&#8217;t even thought about it, but it seems harder than the Two Guards classic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/08\/29\/0228215\/Highly-Paid-Developers-As-ScrumMasters\">High-Paid Developers as ScrumMasters?<\/a>: &#8220;What the fuck is a ScrumMaster? What the fuck is this person asking? Seriously, how did this get in my RSS reader?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambdassociates.org\/blog\/decline.htm\">Why I am Not a Professor OR The Decline and Fall of the British University<\/a>: I think that Phil sent me this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scca.ecu.edu.au\/projects\/spectrum\/proposals.html\">Spectrum Project Space<\/a>:&#8230; um&#8230; someone sent me this&#8230; Simon?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Videos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/area5.tv\/co-op\">Area5&#8217;s CO-OP show<\/a>: It&#8217;s like the 1-UP show, but from the fifth level of Rez&#8230; apparantly. Haven&#8217;t actually had the chance to watch an episode&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamfortress.com\/post.php?id=2754\">Timelapse level design for Team Fortress 2<\/a>: Interesting to watch, but I would have picked different music.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videosift.com\/video\/Secret-of-the-Internet-Revealed\">Secret of the Internet Revealed<\/a>: I knew it! DUUUUUFFFFFYYYY!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess that I&#8217;ll end this oversized post with a quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/reefwalk.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/wisdom-to-know-difference.html\">a page<\/a> open in a browser tab:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;If you want to build a ship, don&#8217;t drum to the women and men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best description of leadership I&#8217;ve read all day. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to leave webpages open until I have a chance to get back to them, but the number of windows and tabs that I have open in Firefox is getting ridiculous. 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