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PODD in Game Developers Conference & Game Connection America
February 14, 2012No commentsTo mark another exciting year in the game development industry, PODD will be joining 19,000 other attendees in this year’s Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) & Game Connection America 2012. Both events are happening from March 5 to 9, 2012 at the Moscone Center & Sir Francisco Drake Hotel in San Francisco, California.
The GDC is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the game development industry to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry. Over 400 lectures, tutorials, and round-table discussions are slated in this upcoming event. Game Connection, meanwhile, is a similar convention, but more focused on business development. It serves as an international marketplace for providers and publishers looking to expand their network and find the right business partners.
“PODD is all ready to broaden our perspective and explore the possibilities of collaborating with other game publishers,” says their President/CEO Christine Rom. “We’d like to be at the forefront, and we see this as an opportunity to showcase the exciting projects we’ve done so far as well as learn more about others.”
Just recently, PODD, has released an update to their edutainment app, Lil Kitten Shopping Cart Game. First launched in April 2011, the game has had been featured as New and Noteworthy in iTunes and has received rave reviews from kids, parents and educators alike. Aside from IP development, PODD’s core focus is in developing casual games for an extensive clientele that includes the National Geographic, Venus Williams, Jimmie Johnson, to name a few.
PODD is looking forward to exploring new partnerships with new clients. To set up a meeting with our team during Game Connection, please email sales@poddcorp.com.
About PODD
PODD is an offshore business unit of US-based platform provider RYO Media. Founded in 2004, PODD is comprised of designers, animators, programmers, and producers working to deliver class A games and applications for desktop and mobile devices. PODD specializes in casual games and edutainment games using Flash, Unity 3D, Objective C, iPhone SDK, Corona SDK, and HTML5.
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sales@poddcorp.comKiller Crowdsourcing Apps
February 09, 2012No commentsWhat better way to apply the “wisdom of the crowd” concept than through crowdsourcing – the portmanteau of “crowd” and “outsourcing”? Now, business entities can make open calls to millions of possible clients and partners across the globe. This opens to a whole new world of providing endless number of solutions to a single problem. Most of all, quality results are just within reach in short span of time.
Everyone is talking about Youtube, Wikipedia, and Google as easy-to-visit crowdsourcing tools. However, these are just a few of the millions of webpages that have changed the lives of their reliant users – the killer crowdsourcing apps.
Here are some of the outstanding outsourcing apps worth mentioning:
Smartsheet
An online collaboration tool, Smartsheet had Google Docs, Google Apps, Intuit Quickbooks, Amazon Web Services, and Livework reach a higher level of project management. Smartsheet is an app that allows members to upload spreadsheets which can be used as web-based business tool. Launched in 2006, Smartsheet developers had intended the app to be a nifty device in helping clients and customers keep tabs on tasks, project progress, and information at a reasonable subscription price. Smartsheet was awarded in 2007 as the Best Online Collaborative Software.Waze
Waze is a testament that crowdsourcing has invaded the mobile technology. This iPhone app is downloadable for free. By gathering real-time traffic updates and making live maps by tapping on the iPhone’s GPS, Waze provides turn-by-turn road directions, and lifesaving information useful in veering away from traffic jams and over speeding drivers.Oil Reporter
Riding on the popularity of the Mexican Gulf Oil Spill, Intredia came up with an android and iphone app that allows people to post blogs and photos they have snapped on the disaster and share it with the rest of the world. Oil Reporter was crucial in raising awareness on the oil spill’s devastating effect on wildlife and sea life thriving on the gulf. The app helped journalists and volunteers come up with significant data used in restoration efforts.Since Web 2.0 began supporting web applications and sites for interactive information sharing, web-based crowdsourcing apps has allowed organizations and companies to outsource strategies and end-products from collective and undefined groups. Though this phenomenon should have been born decades ago, it has changed politics, industry growth, and our personal lives.
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