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And this is not just because I think the Blizzard development studio is the world’s best. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick made a statement on an analyst event saying the company “has never been better positioned as a company.” Citing shareholder value creation being the company’s most interesting figure, having the best record for the past 20 years, creating $16 billion in shareholder value since 1990. What this should tell you is that I was right in saying Zynga is overrated and overvalued. They even released a graph detailing the difference:

Read the two posts about it on VentureBeat and start agreeing with me!
Updated: Activision Blizzard could make $1.25 billion in additional revenue in next three years
Activision Blizzard chief says “we’ve never been better positioned” in video games

VentureBeat reports that OnLive has passed its first test as a cloud based gaming platform.

Well, you can put those fears to rest. Human Revolution is the first in what looks like a series of fantastic blockbuster titles on the launchpad this fall. The game looked gorgeous and blazed along at something north of 50 frames per second on OnLive — slightly better than the kind of performance you’d expect from a high-power PC or an Xbox 360. There were a few glitches — which is natural for a newer service — but they did not really get in the way of the gameplay.

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A great post on how the way we are using social networks is changing. I think it will keep evolving for some time, and I know it’s not Facebook that will be here in a few years.

Instead, there is a new trend happening: We’re not really paying attention to our friends we’re connected to online. Take Twitter, for example. Twitter used to be a great place for many early adopters to talk tech. It wasn’t so long ago that there were few enough people on Twitter that you could read every single tweet in your stream.

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Quite an interesting defense Samsung put to the table in the US based version of the lawsuit Apple is pursuing in courts all over the world. Samsung is actually saying that Stanley Kubrick had already thought of a iPad-like device and depicted it in his 2001: A Space Odyssey movie. The Age even had an expert reflect on the probability of success:

“Generally science fiction is not legitimate prior art to a utility patent, because it does not provide an ‘enabling disclosure’, i.e. it does not inform the public how to make the fictional apparatus,” said Summerfield, who writes the patent blog patentology.com.au.

But he said there was no reason why science fiction could not be “invalidating prior art” to a registered design.

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