The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site.

Take an overall look at Spore with its creator Will Wright! Get an idea of what Spore is all about in this video featuring an interview with Will Wright and brand new gameplay footage spanning all the stages of Spore. Spore available in stores September 2008.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming [...]

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, one of which recreates the functionality of a digital whiteboard, a powerful yet expensive educational tool. Lee’s implementation offers “80% of the functionality for 1% of the cost.” He then demonstrates a head-tracking method for creating a fake 3-D effect from a regular TV. Also check out [...]

Following a ruling ordering YouTube to turn over user data to Viacom, privacy concerns mount.YouTube must turn over information about its users as part of a lawsuit from Viacom. The move has outraged electronic privacy advocates. Bobbi Rebell reports.

In this exclusive interview, Will Wright explains how science has influenced SPORE™. From cell to space stage, Will shares scientific inspirations and shows how some have made their way into the game.

BBC interviews mathematician John Conway, who developed a simple program called “Life” in 1970. The program illustrates how simple rules or algorithms can create complex and unexpected results.