Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

links for 2008-04-01

• 37signals Product Blog: [Basecamp] New Feature Preview: Replying to messages via email
  Finally!
  (tags: basecamp reply message email 37signals)
• Shine Group :: Home
  (tags: shine tv tvproduction indie superindie uk murdoch entertainment)
• Microsoft, Safran Digital Group Ink Xbox Deal
  Original video content to be distributed through XBox Live. Depressingly, the site reports XBox Live as the 360’s “web platform” - a bit like calling Second Life a website.
  (tags: mediaweek xbox360 xboxlive video original entertainment iptv ppv)
• Whirled - Me
  I am, predictably, danhon. A bit like Game Neverending 2.
  (tags: whirled threerings virtualworld flash game gaming)
• Still Alive: Still Alive for Rock Band Free Tommorrow
  SO JEALOUS NO ROCKBAND IN .UK YET GRR SMASH
  (tags: rockband portal stillalive)
• jwz - Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!
  Oh god I’m all nostalgic now. Must go find trumpet winsock and write a slip script.
  (tags: jwz internet history mozilla mcom nostalgia retro)
• Donal MacIntyre to make series on CCTV for Channel Five | Media | guardian.co.uk
  (tags: theplot cctv surveillance five guardian)
• sxswi 2008: day 2, Stories, Games and Your Brand at threadnaught
  Yay, Jen’s posted her notes of our sxswi panel
  (tags: danhon rooreynolds rachelclarke jeremyettinghausen penguin ibm sxswi wetellstories stories games brand gamedesign arg 2008 danheaf bbc)
• Game Design: Neil McFarland on Wipeout Pure’s Omega Pack
  This looks AWESOME
  (tags: wipeoutpure psp omega sony via:kotaku)
• GameSetWatch - Quiz Me Qwik: Forumwarz’ Robin Ward On Launching A Net.Culture Game
  Love this game.
  (tags: gamesetwatch qanda interview forumwarz robinward online gaming)
• How do we legally run an online contest for non-US participants? | Ask Metafilter
  (you don’t. It’s really hard, and really expensive. Someone should just post up precedent for this)
  (tags: askmefi competition worldwide english online)
• GameSetWatch - Opinion: Feel Lucky, Punk? The Game Writing Fallout
  Pwnage: “Supposedly a writer himself, Adam condemns game writing for offering little in the way of nutritive value. What he doesn’t seem to realize that it was never intended as food. It’s the salt.”
  (tags: gamesetwatch writing gamedesign opinion oped)
• GameSetWatch - In-Depth: Inside Puzzle Quest - The Postmortem
  Iterative design works.
  (tags: gamedesign postmortem puzzlequest crack development management productdesign)
• Celebrity scandal and Anne Frank: the reading diary of British teenagers | News | guardian.co.uk Books
  (tags: audience teens reading habits literacy media)
• GameSetWatch - World of Warcraft Exposed: Why WoW Made It BIg
  YA Why Wow Worked article
  (tags: wow gamesetwatch postmortem oped design gamedesign)
• STATEMENT | Issue No.4, 2007
  Using google maps to view magazines (via kottke)
  (tags: googlemaps interface api mapping scrolling tiles)
• Creativity Top 5: March 31 | Creativity Online
  We Tell Stories makes Creativity Online’s top work for week of 24 March 08
  (tags: creativityonline top5 wetellstories penguin sixtostart)

New Basecamp Add-on to Export projects and info to PDF.

It let’s you export Basecamp projects to PDF for sharing, archiving or offline analysis.

Its called Export Reports.com and is, not surprisingly, at http://www.exportreports.com.

Its currently in Beta.
Hope you find it useful -and if you have any suggestions please do pass them on.