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by immad 18y ago
We pull games from Kongregate, AddictinGames and others too, we also let game developers upload games. The game content is already out there we are most aggressive in making sure we have all the best games. We focus completely on publishers
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by immad 18y ago
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/72/game_play_minutes.png <- They didn't post the nice graph :)
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by immad 18y ago
But this stuff is too good to be fake :p "Only four positions were found possible without "mechanical assistance". The other six needed a special elastic belt and inflatable tunnel, like an open-ended sleeping bag."
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by immad 18y ago
http://twitter.com/immad
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by immad 18y ago
It is official
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by immad 18y ago
"identity gives you strength while making you stupid" Couldn't something similar be said about any emotional response. In that emotional responses give you something but are inherently irrational.
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by immad 18y ago
I think I concur that in educated discussions Identity does not help, but I have been thinking through the importance of identity for a while. I think in many situations identity gives you strength. I have an identity within Y Combinator, w
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Heyzap: Online games reach the long tail(telegraph.co.uk)
19 points by immad 18y ago|3 comments
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by immad 18y ago
I am going to put that down to the free thinking nature of Immad and Jude. YC doesn't make anyone do any product, its the teams choice what they do.
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by immad 18y ago
Hmm. At the time we talked to PG about the idea and got funding it was a different variant in the same space. I am pretty sure we didn't tell PG about the current idea until after the other applications were decided. I don't think you can r
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by immad 18y ago
Hi Tony, Given that I had made my decision the timing was going to be harsh whenever it was. Acquisition from start to finish can be quite time consuming, so I could have been +/- 2 months and the timing would have been equivalently good/ba
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by immad 18y ago
http://www.heyzap.com/embed goes straight to the widget. Or you can try it on this site: http://www.dhingana.com/games
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by immad 18y ago
There is also the pressure on the other side that many disruptive technologies require less jobs. For example when manufacturing machines took over previous manual work, or MSN Encarta and Wikipedia affecting the number of door to door ency
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by immad 18y ago
Congrats. SGN does a lot of cool stuff
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by immad 18y ago
Cool. I know Adam Gries pretty well (he used to work there). Were you acquired by sgn or did you start there?
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by immad 18y ago
Yeah. I am going to fix that, sorry. Its a relatively complex issue related to using # for cross domain scripting.
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by immad 18y ago
Cool, what was the start-up? In a broad sense we want to make it easy to put games anywhere. We have been integrated into a lot of blogs and random sites such as: http://www.6-eren.dk/spil/ http://www.dhingana.com/games and http://succ
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by immad 18y ago
We have an API coming and a few other cool integrations that will hopefully satisfy you.
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Heyzap Embeds Video Games Anywhere [video](hyveup.blogspot.com)
33 points by immad 18y ago|11 comments
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by immad 18y ago
picwing.com: I know its different but it has similar end goals given time. edit: Why don't you apply to YC with this idea if you can execute it :P
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by immad 18y ago
Hi sh1mmer, Kongregate does a great job with concentrating on game developer tools and providing a deeper experience for its users. We don't plan to directly complete with that. We want to let other websites embed games to provide more cont
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by immad 18y ago
Hi, happy to consider it. Doesn't that require a separate install? Can you link me to a web playable game?
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by immad 18y ago
Its a fun, cool, memorable, short, unique name. Zap is a small monkey we keep in the office :P
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by immad 18y ago
Here are a few other links on us. Thanks for the coverage everyone! http://mashable.com/2009/01/15/heyzap/ http://tinycomb.com/2009/01/15/heyzap-the-longtail-competito... http://www.geek.com/articles/games/first-impressions-heyzapc...
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by immad 18y ago
Shouldn't you read the book before you hate him for it? He goes through what he does the rest of the time. (sports, holiday, fun, learning things etc)
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by immad 18y ago
"So there it is. My television is now an effective Canary Wharf detecting radar. Probably the most interesting thing I've seen on TV for a long time." :)
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by immad 18y ago
Hotmail does have an API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463989.aspx (looks complicated but is fairly easy)
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by immad 18y ago
He screamed at the disks to recreate the graph. Disk vibrations led to latency.
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by immad 18y ago
2 of the justin.tv founders were kiko founders.
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by immad 18y ago
vim 7 has tabs the are sooo useful. :tabe filename to open something in a new tab and gt to flip between them

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