Nuno Silva

Frankfurt

In the last 3 days i made a business trip to Frankfurt to attend to a conference, the browser games forum 2008.

Unfortunately Portugal is such a small market that we need to go to Germany to get some real information about the area i work in, browser games.

It was a great way to do some networking with all the big players, like Big Point (the primary sponsor), Travian Games and a lot of other companies not just in the game area, but in specialized game marketing, browser game publishing and licensing.

it was a great opportunity to know what the big players are doing, how they work and what do we have available in our area to make a browser game successful.

Next year i hope to attend it, this time making a presentation (yes it’s difficult but not impossible).

This presentation ROCKS!

I was searching the web to see if i could find a presentation of an old college professor named Luís Falcão. I asked Google and “he” told me that he’s blog was here. I was traveling truth his blog when a found this post.
I became curious and I went to the site he pointed in his post to see if the presentation was has good has he was saying.

I think that, like my professor said in his post, this is probably the best presentation i ever seen. It’s simple, goes directly to the point and is presented in a fantastic new way.

The presentation is about something named Identity 2.0. Basically identity 2.0 is the new way to see identity on the web. A way to make identity a standard. And instead of a user have 10 diferent logins in 10 diferent websites, he just have one identity that is shared by all of them.

The speaker is Dick Hardt, founder and CEO of a company named Sxip ( pronounced Skip) that stands for Simple eXtensible Identity Protocol. Dick, congratulations, or presentation is really great.

You can the full video here (it really worths the time spent): http://identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

MSDN Event

Today was the day were i synchronized myself with the recent new products Microsoft has to offer in the Microsoft Conference (PT)

Starting in Visual Studio 2008 new features, passing by Sql Server 2008, Linq, Silverlight and ending with Windows Live Services.

The most interesting presentation of the day was indeed the one about Linq made by an old college teacher, although the subject of the day was Silverlight.

I liked it so much that i REALLY want to do export battles in Orion’s Belt into Silverlight. Battles will be more rich and more eye candy.

Here is a preview of the battles as they are today: