Archive for September, 2009

As Brad noted a few days ago, games are becoming more portable. While I personally don't think JamLegend got a chance at succeeding, It think Quake live has a relatively high chance of being a HUGE success. If you are at work, this is gonna be what gamers play. Screw flash games. However, here at TechXav, we don't play games while at work :) All jokes aside, I got a chance to try this out and it is addictive. For those who don't know, Quake is one of the founding fathers in First person shooters(FPS) and is made by the famous id software. It pretty shaped first person shooters, along with other famous FPS, such as Doom and Halo." title="Quake Live – A First Person Shooter on a Browser" />

This is a guest post written by Jeremy Goodrich, the Co-founder and President of FunAdvice, a social asking and answering platform which enables users to ask questions, share advice, photos and make new friends all in one place. It's mostly made up of teens and it's currently the 5th largest Q&A site in the United States. According to comScore, it had grown by 138% from 952,000 unique visitors in May 2008 to an amazing 2.269 million in May 2009. In this post, he talks about FunAdvice's accomplishments and why it is a more social platform as compared to Yahoo Answers and Answers.com. Everybody knows that Twitter is the fastest growing social network: what about #2?" title="Fun Advice: More Social than Yahoo Answers & Answers.com" />