After work today my friend showed me the Facebook app contest, of course, the deadline was about to close in a few hours, so I scrambled to organize my prototype, prepare my executive summary, setup a facebook developer app id, and a few other deliverables for submission by 11:59pm. I made the deadline, barely.
The contest is for $25K-100K in startup capital, free pr, development and marketing support. I wasn't planning on designing the site in php (a requirement of the app), but that's a minor issue as we can relatively easily port the work we've done in .jsp to the new language.
I would like to sincerely thank Facebook for the opportunity. It's a win-win so I was happy to participate. A social network for a social word game!
Keep your fingers crossed for me.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
The Words of the Grand Fathers
While prototyping BogusBanter, I called my father for some feedback on a few ideas I was mulling over and after receiving cleverly unhelpful, but inspiring advice, we began on a tangent that is the topic of this banter.
My grandfather, on my father's side, apparently wrote a humorous document on the topic of absolutely nothing, with the point of bantering to such an extent, with such a lexicon, that the reader was utterly confused as to the meaning. He was a politician after all, a mayor in a small town in Ohio, but anyway, the funny part is, apparently so did my other grandfather, a professor and former lt. governor of Vermont. So it all seems rather serendipitous that here I am launching a game called Bogus Banter. I will post their banters once I get them from my family (and we all know how long that can take... :)
So in honor of this newly exposed family history, this game is dedicated to my three grand fathers, Edward Nile Duppstadt II, Robert Shillingford Babcock, and John David Baker (founder of The Critical Thinking Co.). The charming mayor I never knew, the thoughtful professor who believed in me, and the ethical entrepreneur who helped me to know myself.
My grandfather, on my father's side, apparently wrote a humorous document on the topic of absolutely nothing, with the point of bantering to such an extent, with such a lexicon, that the reader was utterly confused as to the meaning. He was a politician after all, a mayor in a small town in Ohio, but anyway, the funny part is, apparently so did my other grandfather, a professor and former lt. governor of Vermont. So it all seems rather serendipitous that here I am launching a game called Bogus Banter. I will post their banters once I get them from my family (and we all know how long that can take... :)
So in honor of this newly exposed family history, this game is dedicated to my three grand fathers, Edward Nile Duppstadt II, Robert Shillingford Babcock, and John David Baker (founder of The Critical Thinking Co.). The charming mayor I never knew, the thoughtful professor who believed in me, and the ethical entrepreneur who helped me to know myself.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Building Bogus Banter
First of all, I'd like to thank my friends and family for all the support, I never imagined everyone would be so excited to help!
The prototyping and development is going smoothly, thanks to our amazing development team. The first version of the game will be designed using jsp and javascript, version two will be developed in Flash and available for use on mobile devices.
The prototyping and development is going smoothly, thanks to our amazing development team. The first version of the game will be designed using jsp and javascript, version two will be developed in Flash and available for use on mobile devices.
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