“CONGRATULATION THIS STORY IS HAPPY END” (Ghosts ‘n Goblins) Last month, when we saw that Athens, Greece based artist and developer Pelikan13 was gunning to resurrect the classic ‘90s-style first-person Arcade Racer on Kickstarter, we had to back him up. Not only had P13 clearly made some serious progress on the game before he sought [...]
Pole position, pretty girls and Kickstarter
03.07.2013 By:
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Trends for content owners in 2013: HMTL5 versus Flash (Video)
03.05.2013 By:
Trend 5: HTML versus Flash Even though HTML5 is quickly becoming the programming language of choice for web developers, digital publishers still need to maintain Flash websites and online applications during the transition. This will require content owners to broaden their development toolset by simultaneously increasing their knowledge of HTML5 while maintaining websites that use [...]
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Trends for content owners in 2013: Mobile and the demise of the content schedule (Video)
02.26.2013 By:
Trend 4: Mobile and the demise of the content schedule Consumers can now watch their favorite shows from multiple devices, and on their own schedule. Tablets, smartphones and DVRs let users control when and where they replay content, including TV shows, music streaming, books and articles. To make content available 24/7 and meet consumer demand [...]
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Trends for content owners in 2013: OTT platforms opening floodgates (Video)
02.15.2013 By:
Trend 3: OTT platforms open the floodgates for new content providers As cable channels watch their audiences dwindle, new opportunities are arising for over-the-top (OTT) platforms. The economics of this shift threaten traditional distribution models as well as the content providers that support them. As OTT pure-plays look to fill the void left by the [...]
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Trends for content owners in 2013: the rise of the multi-tablet household (video)
02.08.2013 By:
Trend 2: The rise of the multi-tablet household Content owners are now faced with the challenge of providing an optimal user experience for a variety of devices, including tablets. As the number of multi-tablet households increases, customers are using them in different ways – smaller devices are more likely to be used for eBook reading, [...]
Trends for content owners in 2013: online privacy concerns (Video)
02.01.2013 By:
Trend 1: Online privacy concerns threaten content consumption and preference sharing Businesses today are collecting massive amounts of data on their consumers. But what do customers really think of these tactics? This presents a new challenge for content owners to find the balance between online privacy and gathering data on their market. Watch Internap’s Drew [...]
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Monetize your free-to-play online game by adding holiday spirit
12.18.2012 By:
Over the past few years, we’ve seen a big jump in the number of free-to-play games we support. Hi-Rez Studio’s Global Agenda was one of the first MMOs to move to free-to-play in 2010. Their next gen shooter, Tribes Ascend and battle arena, SMITE are two more examples that are shaping up to be enormously [...]
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GDC in Austin and catching up on the latest trends in gaming
10.16.2012 By:
We were at Game Developers Conference Online in Austin last week to catch up on the latest trends in one of our key customer verticals. The time we spent deciphering T-shirts with arcane game references and investigating the ubiquitous affinity for 8-bit game art notwithstanding, this was a really informative and useful conference. We had the opportunity [...]
Five trends to watch for content owners: HTML5 versus Flash
10.04.2012 By:
This is the final segment of a five-part series on trends for content owners. Catch up on the rest of the trends here. In November of last year, Adobe confirmed what the news analysts had been predicting for months: Adobe was discontinuing its development of mobile browser Flash in favor of HTML5. It’s true — [...]
Five trends to watch for content owners: Mobile and the demise of the content schedule
10.02.2012 By:
This is week four of a five-part series on trends for content owners. Catch up on the rest of the trends here. Humans are creatures of habit. We are hard wired to build routines and establish schedules, even subconsciously. It’s nice to know that on Thursday night at 9:30 PM ET you can sit down, [...]
Five trends for content owners in 2013: OTT opening the floodgates
09.25.2012 By:
The third trend on our list for content owners is the rise of over-the-top (OTT) pure plays (see posts one and two in this series to catch up if you are just joining). Over-the-top pure plays such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Instant and CinemaNow have blossomed, and as a result the floodgates have opened [...]
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Our take on OpenStack’s launch of independent foundation
09.19.2012 By:
If you didn’t see it already, OpenStack announced its launch as an independent foundation dedicated to the care and feeding of its open source cloud operating system today, sloughing off its corporate skin and officially separating itself from one of its original founders (and some say, overly influential), Rackspace. This is great news for OpenStack [...]
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Five trends to watch for content owners in 2013: Part two
09.18.2012 By:
If you are just joining us, this is week two in a five-part series on trends for content owners in 2013. Last week I discussed how privacy concerns are threatening content consumption and preference sharing and how content owners are responding. Let’s get started with number two on the list: the rise of the multi-tablet [...]
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Five trends to watch for content owners in 2013
09.14.2012 By:
We live in the age of information with anything you need to know literally at your fingertips via smartphone, tablet, laptop and more. With content accessible on a multitude of different devices and available on demand, content producers must stay ahead of the trends to make sure their media is at the ready in any [...]
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The brains behind intelligent route control
08.03.2012 By:
“In a picture, it should be possible to discover new things every time you see it.” – Joan Miró Internap’s Managed Internet Route Optimizer™ (MIRO), the brain behind our Performance IP™, is really astounding when you think about it. It makes millions of calibrations every day to measure the Internet and route around problems. Every [...]
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The enterprise data center
03.08.2012 By:
I responded to a question on Quora a few weeks ago that asked how enterprises separated premium data centers from some of the “bargain” options on the market. In short: experienced data center buyers take the time to understand a service providers’ performance track record. Most performance issues can be lumped into three silos: reliability and [...]
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