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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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The developers of an acclaimed Skyrim mod just made it to the big leagues

The Verge

In 2016, a team of modders released a game they developed a game in their spare time to nigh-universal acclaim — a mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that they called Enderal, with its own 30+ hour quest with gobs of original dialogue and professional voice acting. Now, its developers are setting off to build a game of their own.

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Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace

Trends in the Living Networks

and Google are doing in the space, the article continues: As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks. was that employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive than those at tables for four, thanks to more chance conversations and larger social networks.

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Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users

Trends in the Living Networks

While I closely followed the social networking space at the time, I didn’t join many. When I was writing Living Networks in 2002 there were no true social networking applications in existence. The basic principle was inviting friends to connect, and using that to find the quickest social path to people you wanted to meet.

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Amazon-backed Seattle startup Bamboo Learning brings voice education app to Google devices

GeekWire

Ian Freed , a former Amazon exec who led Kindle and Alexa development teams, launched Bamboo in 2018 with co-founder Irina Fine , a 30-year veteran of elementary education curriculum development and teaching. Freed was a technology adviser to Bezos from 2004-2005.

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Will the future of social networking be open and distributed? Here comes Plexus

Trends in the Living Networks

I just caught up with my neighbor and fellow futurist Mark Pesce , who over a coffee at our local briefed me on his new project Plexus, which he publicly announced at his recent keynote at Pycon Australia, for Python developers. First and most important is the social graph, a database of connections known as the ‘Plex’.

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Roblox goes public so that it can build a bigger metaverse

The Verge

Roblox has been around since 2004, but the game nearly doubled its daily users over the last nine months as it’s provided a social space where its users — mostly kids and teens — can hang out while stuck inside. Cost of revenue appears to have spiked as more people used the platform and Roblox began paying out more money to developers.

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