Vlambeer is no stranger to being stolen from and ripped off. Anyone who remembers the Gamenauts controversy or Skyclone ripoff can attest to that. But while most developers might give up or take legal action, Vlambeer did something entirely different…they released a game: Vlambeer Clone Tycoon.
This article was written on July 11, 2007 by CyberNet.
I always love the “Best Website” lists because there’s usually a handful of sites that I haven’t heard of, or paid much attention to. Time magazine has put together their list of the 50 Best Websites of 2007. They explain it as their picks of “what’s new and exciting about the Web right now.”
You can get involved by taking their poll and ranking each of the sites on a scale of 1 to 100. After you’ve given the site a rating, it will display the average rating that it has received.
Top 5 Best Websites
While I haven’t heard of some of the listed sites, there are several well-known sites that we’ve covered like:
You can view the entire list of 50 websites here. Are there any that you don’t think belong on the list? On the other hand, is there a site that you think belongs? Let us know in the comments!
Oh, and just in case you’re interested, there’s also the Time Magazine’s list of the 5 Worst Websites. That list included e-Harmony, Evite, Meez, MySpace (no surprise here!), and SecondLife.
Source: Thanks XPGeek!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early years after 9/11, the CIA turned some Guantanamo Bay prisoners into double agents then sent them home to help the U.S. kill terrorists, current and former U.S. officials said.
The CIA promised the prisoners freedom, safety for their families and millions of dollars from the agency’s secret accounts.
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The next generation of consoles are in the wild, and now that the general public has access, they’re bumping up against some new restrictions with the way they work. While Twitch is clamping down on its live streams, on the Xbox One side some users have run afoul of XBL policies against foul language in their Upload Studio clips. Microsoft hasn’t been specific about what constitutes a violation, but in a statement to TechCrunch it says “excessive swearing” (in Upload Studio, peer to peer communications like Skype are reportedly unmonitored) can lead to some or all Xbox Live privileges disappearing. In this case, it appears to usually manifest as a 24 hour ban on voice communication, which some of those affected first noticed when they tried to use a different app like Skype. We’ll see if these policies or the way they’re enforced evolve over time (if not, you may be in for some very quiet gaming sessions with your favorite Engadget editors), but for now you might want to tell the world what you think of campers after liberating an uploaded clip from SkyDrive.
Filed under: Gaming, HD, Microsoft
Source: TechCrunch, Reddit
Google has once again expanded the gates for its Explorer Program, sending out invitations to developers in an opportunity to nab a pair of Google Glass. This follows a few times the program has been expanded in various ways, and makes good on a recent promise the company made to provide additional chances to get […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Barack Obama has visited with the family of a Transportation Security Administration officer who was killed at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama gathered with relatives of officer Gerardo Hernandez at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday. Obama was in Los Angeles to attend Democratic Party fundraisers.
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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — If Colin Kaepernick and Robert Griffin III have become the future of football suddenly put on hold, consider Kaepernick the one more likely to get going again.
The young, mobile quarterbacks who have struggled in 2013 after breakout years in 2012 faced off for the first time Monday night, and Kaepernick clearly outperformed his counterpart as the San Francisco 49ers broke a two-game losing streak with a 27-6 win over the Washington Redskins.
Kaepernick completed 15 of 24 passes for 235 yards — the first time in five games he’s topped 200 yards — with three touchdowns and no interceptions.
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Vice President Joe Biden helped celebrate the groundbreaking of a domestic violence shelter in Chicago on Monday — the city’s first new shelter for abused women in more than a decade.
Biden, who championed the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 and celebrated its long-awaited reauthorization earlier this year, praised the shelter for bringing “hope” to victims of domestic violence, calling it “one of the most elusive commodities an abused woman needs.”
“There’s no prison on earth like the four walls of a woman’s home when she’s battered,” Biden said. “These women are prisoners in plain sight. They walk down the street every day and they are still prisoners.”
As hectic Thanksgiving week air travel builds, a Sikh group is alleging that the Department of Homeland Security is ignoring reports about airport screening discrimination, including allegations that many members of the faith are pulled aside for secondary screening.
Sikhs, often mistaken for Muslims because of the turbans many wear as a religious obligation, have been targets of discrimination and hate attacks since 9/11. Although Transportation Security Administration policies forbid travel checkpoint profiling, they also say head coverings, including turbans, are subject to secondary screening.
“Talk about reinforcing negative stereotypes — the government itself is targeting the object that folks are most fearful about — the turban,” said Amardeep Singh, cofounder of the Sikh Coalition. Singh said he is selected for secondary screening, on average, more than three out of four times he travels by air.
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