kakooljay

"'social' games... have become all the rage on social networks such as Facebook. These are more about interaction than action: players either join their friends for an online game of poker or Scrabble, or to create and show off virtual pets, farms and mob families. Zynga, the market leader, which had 22m users in January, now has more than 170m..."

Interesting that they'll be airing on Virgin flights.. I'd rather watch random pitches than most of the movies they show..

Paul Buchheit in Founders at Work (p. 162): "AdSense, the content-targeted ads, was actually something that, if I recall, I did on a Friday... Everyone hated it. Many people were kind of mad at me because they didn’t really go for the whole concept. It was something that had been talked about, and people agreed that it was not workable, it was not a good idea. So, to some extent, they were agitated that I wasted my time."

"It seems strange that the system will allow anonymous voting, but not anonymous comments. Allowing the admin to enable anonymous commenting would be very helpful." Yep. Maybe uservoice should listen to its own users..

Probably just an oversight on the set, & possibly a violation of his contract with MS??