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	August 18th, 2012 花火大会 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 2 明日。 A leadership revolution, and why it matters to you Posted 1 day ago by SmartBrief to Holy Kaw! Many CEOs have identified creativity and innovation as critically important to growing their organizations. My experiences have convinced me that most of what they are seeking is lying dormant in in the knowledge and experiences of their employees and customers, and that employees are longing for the opportunity to be included, involved and unleashed. Full story at SmartBrief Social Media. More SmartBrief stories. A leadership revolution, and why it matters to you Posted 1 day ago by SmartBrief to Holy Kaw! Many CEOs have identified creativity and innovation as critically important to growing their organizations. My experiences have convinced me that most of what they are seeking is lying dormant in in the knowledge and experiences of their employees and customers, and that employees are longing for the opportunity to be included, involved and unleashed. Full story at SmartBrief Social Media. More SmartBrief stories. Photo credit: Fotolia Collections (YC S12) launches support for Facebook photos for its upgrade to Apple Finder Posted about 17 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Y Combinator’s demo day is coming up next Tuesday, but one of its startups has given us all an early surprise to tide us over. Collections is officially launching the public beta of its content manager Mac app today with initial support for Facebook photos, Instagram and Google Docs. The free software aims to reimagine Apple’s Finder tool for the Internet age by pulling together your digital life into one convenient place. Think of it as a stripped-down version of Tweetdeck for content (e.g., photos and documents). It gathers together the feeds from your different accounts and lets you like or comment on the photos and edit the documents. Read the full article on TheNextWeb SpinPunch (YC S12) builds beautiful high-performance HTML5 games - first launch is Starcraft-like Mars Frontier Posted about 16 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous 1 “You can run StarCraft on your PC, but the best game you can in your browser is, like, FarmVille,”SpinPunch co-founder Ian Tien told me. While he’s quick to note that there’s nothing wrong with tilling fields and raising livestock, the games powered by the Y Combinator-backed startup’s HTML5 platform aspire to break down that quality distinction by being faster-paced, and more visually rich than the rest. Mountain View-based SpinPunch was founded by ex-Microsoftie Tien and Dan Maas, a software developer and 3D animator who won an Emmy for his work on a documentary called “Five Years on Mars”.  ... To highlight the power of their “high performance” in-house HTML5 platform, the SpinPunch team decided to offer up their own take on a classic (and hard to nail) genre for their first game: real-time strategy. It’s a tricky endeavor for sure, but the SpinPunch team thinks of as a trial by fire — after all, gamers don’t take very kindly to gameplay-cripping bugs no matter how impressive the technology behind it is. Called Mars Frontier, the HTML5 Facebook game plays home to something like 140,000 monthly actives (or so AppData tells me), and puts users in the midst of a Martian conflict between multiple maladjusted AIs. Read the full article on Techcrunch Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.