Sibblingz rolls out social game platform with Crowdstar

Sibblingz launched a social game platform today that lets game publishers release games that players can enjoy on multiple game devices. One of the first game publishers to use the platform is Crowdstar, a hot Facebook game maker that is also a sister company to Sibblingz.
If developers use Burlingame, Calif.-based Sibblingz social game engine, they [...]

Do you have the right to socialize on multiplayer games?

[Editor's note: As virtual worlds and other online gaming communities become more mainstream in the United States, new legal issues are cropping up. Here's one analysis of a case involving a man who claims he should not have been cut off from a gaming site because he needed it to socialize.]
“Erik Estavillo is suing Sony [...]

Do You Prefer Your Email on Your Desktop or the Web? [Reader Poll]

There was a time when—if you were a serious email power-user—desktop email clients were the only way to go. Nowadays, robust web-based email applications like Gmail have completely changed things.
Photo by DJHeini.
Earlier today we mentioned that Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 is available for download, and it got us thinking: There was a time, in the [...]

Use Evernote with TweetDeck for Better Twitter Memory [Twitter]

Twitter organizers like TweetDeck can bring the good, actually helpful messages forward, but remembering and utilizing them is up to you—whether you email tweets to yourself, add a “star,” or bookmark them. One blogger’s solution: Evernote’s email capabilities.
Whether on the desktop or the previously mentioned, just-released iPhone client, TweetDeck (along with a handful of other [...]