9 posts and columns on glitch

Flickr Founders Bring Latest Artistic Creation to Life. It’s Not a Facebook Game!

in Commerce on September 27, 2011 at 7:50 am PT

Glitch, a highly anticipated multiplayer online game, is finally launching today, after more than two years in development.
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Tiny Speck Raises Cash to Build a Massive Online Game

in Commerce on April 12, 2011 at 2:49 pm PT

Tiny Speck, which was founded in 2009 by the four original members of Flickr, has raised a second round of capital from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, totaling $10.7 million. The round precedes next week’s beta launch of the Vancouver, B.C., company’s first game. The browser-based massively multiplayer game, called Glitch, offers a goofy cartoonish underworld that evolves from a speck of dust.

Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones

in Personal Technology on February 2, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT

Some major benefits of the new Verizon iPhone service include crisp, clear calls with relatively few drops. But AT&T offers faster data downloads.

Pig-Nibbling Inside 11 Giant Imaginations: The Latest Glimpse of Glitch

in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:44 am PT

Here is some video of Glitch–the new game that Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is in the midst of creating from the Vancouver HQ of his Tiny Speck start-up. Butterfield showed me the latest iteration of the game, which takes place inside the minds of 11 giants. Including, oddly enough, a pig that will give up some meat if you nibble it, but walks merrily away after.

Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Talks About His New Game Start-Up, Glitch

in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:40 am PT

Last Friday, BoomTown dropped in on Stewart Butterfield–now ensconced in Vancouver, Canada–to see what the Flickr co-founder has been up to since decamping from Yahoo a while back. Yahoo bought the innovative British Columbia-based photo-sharing service in 2005 for upward of $25 million. Now it seems Butterfield is back where he started, since Flickr was actually initially part of an original gaming project called Game Neverending. Apparently, it never did end, and now there is Glitch. Almost, that is.

The Inbox of an Accidental Facebook Voyeur

in News on February 25, 2010 at 2:01 pm PT

“Just wanted to let you know it seems like your always on my mind these days,” someone wrote to me last night on Facebook. “Sorry if thats creepy but what can I say.” It was creepy, but mostly because the message wasn’t intended for me, and its sender is an Iowa high-school student whom I’ve never met.

Oh, Snow Leopard Frees Up Disk Space All Right

in News on October 13, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

Apple has finally acknowledged that a bug in its new Snow Leopard operating system can, on rare occasions, result in a catastrophic loss of data. The glitch, which first surfaced in support forums in early September, is triggered by logging in and out of a guest account and wipes the main user account of all data. Clearly, this is not what Apple meant when it claimed the OS would free up as much as seven gigs of space upon installation.
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Buyer Beware: Twitter Search Is Powerful–And Limited

in Media on April 13, 2009 at 8:49 am PT

Twitter’s real-time search capability is a powerful tool–if you want to know what people are talking about on Twitter. If you want to know what people are interested in on the Web, though, it’s a different story. It’s a difference worth thinking about if you’re an Internet company thinking about shelling out a lot of money for the start-up.
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Did Amazon Really Fail This Weekend? The Twittersphere Says “Yes,” Online Retailer Says “Glitch.”

in Media on April 12, 2009 at 7:33 pm PT

Last fall, a small but vocal group of Twitterers managed to shame Johnson & Johnson into apologizing for one of its Motrin ads. This weekend’s replay: a howl of outrage, amplified and directed via Twitter at Amazon, which may or may not have instituted a boneheaded policy regarding “adult” books on its site. Or “adult” books aimed at gay and lesbian readers. Or something. No matter what really happened, the retailer is now in a real pickle.
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