From Wikipedia: Contextual advertising is a form of targeted advertising for advertisements appearing on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile browsers. The advertisements themselves are selected and served by automated systems based on the content displayed to the user. Because the advertisements are more targeted, they are more likely to be … Great example of contextual advertising…
If you are worried about the changes introduced by AS3 and would like a cheatsheet for a quick reference of most of them, then you should take a look at http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/ This site provides some interesting printable quick reference cards for the ActionScript language. AS3, Flex, AIR, Papervision, and more. Unfortunately the site seems to … ActionScript 2.0 to 3.0 Migration Cheatsheet
Let’s imagine you made an awesome game and monetize it with MochiAds, and want to show your readers/the world how much your game rocks, now you have an interesting option. Thanks to Rhu from Blargh now you can have a banner showing your game stats. I am talking about something like this You can find … Put a banner with your MochiAds stats in your blog
Sometimes Flash developers also work to game development on other platforms. It’s the case of byronay that worked on Multiwinia, a multiplayer game that will make you challenge your opponent to a game of stick-man slaughter and witness devastating digital-war unfold. Byron has decided to give away all 10 copies to random people and all … The great Multiwinia give-away
If you followed the Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress series you know I am about to release a WP Arcade theme with automatic game submission thanks to a plugin that parses MochiAds feed. It’s time to open the beta to the public and make the site run. It’s time to play, rate … Triqui.com WordPress arcade now in beta
Living in Italy is fantastic, but this also means I’ll probably miss every interesting IT conference. Anyway, thanks to Michael Sorrenti from Flash Magazine I can enjoy a full report of the conference, and he asked me to share it with you, so we’ll be able to see what happened without even suffering jet lag. … Seattle Casual Connect breakdown
The wait is over. You can finally download and install the beta version of Chrome, the new browser made by Google guys. I installed it and everything seems to work. I am not going to review it… but I am very interested in the Chromium Developer Documentation that explains how did they make it. It’s … Say welchrome to the new Google browser
If you’re not a professional in marketing, one that loves to promote and sell games, pins, socks… whatever… Flash game marketing can be an hassle, or even a nightmare. Unfortunately, if your game does not hit the frontpage of one of most popular portals spreading virally, you’ll have to manually submit your work to at … Distribute your Flash games worldwide with FlashGameDistribution
If you want to add a new twist to your interface or games, you should try PowerCursor by Koert van Mensvoort (look at his site…) According to the official site, PowerCursor is a software toolkit in Flash for designing interfaces you can touch. Tactile sensations like stickiness, roughness, pressure, volume or mass can be experienced … Design interfaces you can touch with PowerCursor
I am very happy to inform you about another Triqui.com milestone: half a million plays. Half a million is nothing compared to big names plays, but it’s quite good for an auto-feed portal written in a day. It took 56 days to reach the first 250,000 plays and “only” 53 for these ones. The overall … Milestone: 500,000 plays on Triqui.com
Today I am going to introduce you a service that will allow players to design their own levels of your game. I am talking about BonusLevel The concept of the site it to provide an API that allows players create and share their own levels. This may be helpful when you are great at programming … Let players design their own levels with BonusLevel
Yesterday a new search engine called Cuil (pronounced “Cool”) made its debut on the web. According to its developers, (Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, ex-Google search experts) it can index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google. But the point is not how cool is Cuil, it’s that some big names think there is … Learn an important lesson from the new search engine Cuil
