How Google should have acquired EtherPad
December 5th, 2009
How the acquisition probably went down. EtherPad is one of my favorite companies and we have mentioned it from time to time. If you missed it, EtherPad is a bare-bones but technologically advanced collaborative text editor in your browser. You send your buddies a link like "http://etherpad.com/test" and anyone who clicks it is instantly greeted with a ...
Sony Holiday Party
December 3rd, 2009
A few weeks ago, we received a mysterious email in the Wolfire inbox -- a special invitation from Sony PlayStation! It was an evite for a party tonight. We were very intrigued, so we RSVP'd (I am warming up for the next rap video). The event was just as awesome as the Secret Meebo Party. I'm not sure how ...
Upcoming Lugaru Mod: Red Dawn
November 30th, 2009
The forum user known as Monkey announced Red dawn 7 months ago with amazing promotional posters and screenshots. The mod then went into stealth mode for a few months but has just come back with a vengeance thanks to this killer trailer. If the Red Dawn mod receives even half of the care and polish that was applied to this ...
Happy Thanksgiving From Wolfire!
November 27th, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you guys are having a great holiday. As you might have noticed from his absence in Wolfire IRC, Aubrey is visiting family right now so we don't have an awesome holiday sketch this time. Here's a picture of an undercover turkey instead! This rabbit is thankful that he was not on the menu today ...
Captions for our YouTube videos
November 26th, 2009
Thanks to a community effort from Silverfish, Jo-shadow, and djscrat, all of our Overgrowth videos have now been captioned! Normally it is very difficult to add subtitles to a video because you need to annotate your transcript to tell it when to display every single caption. However, last week, Google enabled a new feature that lets you upload a simple ...
The new blog is live!
November 22nd, 2009
The new blog, powered by App Engine, is now live! First post! Awesome art by John! Last week I snagged Nick Johnson's super light Bloggart blog engine, and worked on it until it supported all of the features we needed. I am still slowly contributing our changes back to the main project. I hope more people jump on board ...