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Fail fast!

Posted: April 18th, 2010 | Author: timo | No Comments »

One of the major themes the past year or two has been something that could be described as “We have to move shortest possible distance, fail fast, get up fast and because most of our assumptions are wrong anyway, we have to correct them fast”. This could be also titled “fail fast”.
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Activebot.net

Posted: March 31st, 2010 | Author: timo | No Comments »

We’ve been doing some backend-projects with a little new approach for some time now. And got some great benefits from this approach. In short, its about separating parts that would normally be components inside software, into autonomic bots that communicate trough xml-based api’s. Read the rest of this entry »


You want a new job or new game?

Posted: March 10th, 2009 | Author: elliot | No Comments »

Yet another article about gold farming in the game industry.
An estimated 400,000 Asians hack dragons and monsters for a living. Read the rest of this entry »


Where is this train heading anyway?

Posted: November 9th, 2008 | Author: timo | 3 Comments »

I was training earlier this week in Lahti, where my audience was mainly pr- and communications people. We had many good discussions and unfortunately I managed to run out of time. I was supposed to cover more about my views on the future so I promised to share some of that stuff via this blog.

And please bear in mind, that I write from my own perspective, which is a perspective of a digital media & internet worker, enthusiastic, addict and science fiction buff. So do take my views with a grain of salt. Since I seem to have too much to say, I’ve divided this into few parts.
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