MENLO PARK, Calif. (Business Wire EONPRWEB ) August 27, 2008 -- Sun Microsystem's Chief Gaming Officer talks with Jennifer MacLean from 38 Studios about game development. MacLean is listed as one of the top 100 women in gaming by the NextGen website and is the chairwoman of the International Game Developers Association. She's an influential member of the games community and VP of Business Development for 38 Studios, a new game studio that is focusing on building a new Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG). SHIFT Radio is a weekly Sun Internet radio program featuring interviews with leaders in the rich media and video gaming industries.
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Jennifer came to 38 Studios from Comcast, where she served as Vice President and General Manager, Games, responsible for management of all games products, strategy, and business development for the United States' largest cable company. Her extensive and varied experience in online content and interactive entertainment began in 1992 at Microprose Software. She joined AOL in 1996, where she held numerous positions in the AOL brand programming division, including Programming Director for the Games Channel.
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Thursday, 28 August 2008
Sun Internet Radio Discusses Massive Multiplayer Online Game Development With Jennifer MacLean
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Firefox 3 for Guiness World Record
The open source file produced by Mozilla, Firefox 3 only released on June 17. The presence of this newest version of Firefox was welcomed by the good market. In 24 hours, was recorded by more than 8 million times Firefox 3 has downloaded. The aim of Mozilla personally was 5 million downloads. According to the Mozilla side that is poured into its official blog. "We have reached 8 million downloads in the 24-hour period," wrote Mozilla.
The download this figure was recorded at 11:16 on June 17, at 11:16 next day. Moreover, after the period of 72 hours, which is the same time on June 19, Firefox 3 has downloaded at least 14 million copies. This achievement made Mozilla prepares to record this record in Guinness World Records as the software in most discharge into a 24-hour period. At this point, Mozilla asked for the third audit on this figure. It was Paul Vixie consortium Systems Internet, and Corey Shields, the scholar at Indiana University.
After this third party for the audit was completed and the figure was said Mozilla true, then all packages will be delivered by Guinness World Records for verification. This figure was considered to be fantastic. Previously, Firefox 2 personally downloaded only 1.6 million times in first 24 hours after his release.
