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Popfly Game Engine Code on Codeplex

Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:25 PM by johnmont
Though we decommissioned Popfly last Monday, Ben Anderson from the (former) Popfly team worked his magic (along with a lot of help from others, including our legal team) to get the Popfly Game Engine code on Codeplex under the MS-PL. Give it a look. Technorati Read More...
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Popfly Game Creator Beta, or "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges..."

Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 8:21 AM by johnmont
Popfly , which we opened to the public last fall as a web mashup tool, has come a long way. Over the last ten months we launched an add-in for Visual Studio ( Popfly Explorer ) so people could create and open projects on the Popfly site from VS, a lightweight Read More...
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Time to Brag!

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 2:28 PM by johnmont
Have you created a really cool Popfly project? If so, we want to hear from you! Click here to send us your story and you may be featured on our site! Technorati Tags: Popfly Read More...
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Ten Fun Popfly Games

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 8:22 AM by johnmont
Created by students. AlfredTh has the list . Technorati Tags: Popfly , Casual Games , Students Read More...
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Adding Your Images to Games

Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:59 AM by johnmont
A coworker who is teaching Popfly to his daughter just asked me, I'm working with my daughter who is working on a game and she wants to import a picture to be an actor. How does she do that? And is there a wiki or other site to get these kinds of answers? Read More...
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How to Make a Popfly Application a Full Facebook Application

Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:16 AM by johnmont
In this short screencast , I'll show you how to take a Popfly application (in this case, a mashup) and turn it into a full Facebook application using the ".facebook" feature of Popfly. Technorati Tags: Popfly , Silverlight , Facebook , Screencast Read More...
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Popfly: My Favorite Feature This Time

Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 9:56 AM by johnmont
The neat thing about working on a team that updates its product every 4-5 weeks is that every 4-5 weeks I get to have a new favorite feature. With yesterday evening's update to Popfly I had a bunch to choose from (Adam Nathan outlines many of them here Read More...
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What People Do with the Game Creator

Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 1:50 PM by johnmont
In two weeks we've gotten a bunch of interesting, fun games built with the Popfly Game Creator. Some of the team's personal picks are now on our Wiki . I wound up playing Ninja Ball for quite some time. Technorati Tags: Popfly , Silverlight , games Read More...
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Why Build a Game Creator?

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 3:38 PM by johnmont
Several people have asked me, "Why would we do this?" They imply that there are so many better things to do. I typically speak about it in terms of increasing the potential universe of people who can create -- developers of a sort. And I've Read More...
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Popfly on Moonlight

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 12:51 PM by johnmont
I'll be darned. Daniele Muscetta has Popfly running on Moonlight . Technorati Tags: Popfly , Virtual Earth , Moonlight , Silverlight , Mashups Read More...
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Popfly in the News

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:04 PM by johnmont
You probably already know that Mark Frydenberg at Bentley College used Popfly in some of his introduction to information technology courses. Campus Technology magazine pointed to his work to show how Bentley is trying to teach the impact of technology Read More...
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Popfly Update

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:44 PM by johnmont
Earlier in the week we quietly updated Popfly. Why quietly? Because we really didn't add any new features. We fixed some bugs, sure, but mostly what we did was roll out an improved caching system. Between the middle-tier cache and changes we made to take Read More...
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It's About the Data

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:18 PM by johnmont
Popfly , a mashup tool, depends on three things: data that is simple to access programmatically, interesting, and available under terms that enable users to work with it. As with most software endeavors, you can pick two. The government has a huge amount Read More...
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Popfly Nominated for CNET Webware 100

Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 12:09 PM by johnmont
Today Popfly was nominated for a Webware 100 award . As you can see on the Popfly team blog, this means we need people to help us by voting for Popfly . So please vote for Popfly . Just like regular elections, you can vote up to three times . (Yes, that's Read More...
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Applying The "Ken Burns" Effect to Your Photos

Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 10:00 AM by johnmont
One of the things that Popfly does well is take photos from one place (e.g. Flickr , Live Image Search , Facebook , Live Spaces ) and display them in another (e.g. your blog) in pretty ways. Tim on our team created a really nice block called "MovingSlideShow" Read More...
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