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  • Hi, I'm Ramine

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    Coach at Startup Sauna
    Enjoy hackathons and Game Jams

    Founded Mysites, a cloud-based OS similar to Chrome OS. Launched 2008 with 20 web apps on top of our IDE.

    Co-founded Summer of Startups
    Blogged at RWW SiliconAngle ArcticStartup
    Wrote on GamersHell Emuholic Gamikaze
    Hacked on Moonlight B.O.R, Mugen AGS
    e-Sports on CounterStrike

    TL;DR: #hacker #gamer #entrepreneur

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  • brilliant. 3d printed personal statues in a mall http://t.co/KtSKhVN5

  • Pornterest Vs. Pornstagram Vs. Tumblr’s #NSFW http://t.co/K5nM23jZ

  • Amazing Alex Go Alex, go! :)

  • Save 66% on Portal 2 on Steam Henrik Rinne Behrouz Derakhshan Tan Miaoqing Niklas Kari

  • Impressive web-site design/paralax scrolling concept by Nike: http://t.co/DmoGun0N

  • Nice reminder: “Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.”

  • Move Over @Harvard @MIT, @Stanford Has The Real “Revolution In Education” http://t.co/q7Pajby0 cc @universityaalto @aaltoes

  • The ultimate freemium model. Staggeringly simple. Staggeringly powerful. http://t.co/TRT0n46c /via @rushikh

  • 1 BILLION Angry Birds downloads! – Rovio Entertainment Ltd It looks like Angry Birds games have been downloaded 1 Bn times. Very, very proud to be part of this company.

  • if you follow one person about Games & Japan, it must be @serkantoto : read e.g. http://t.co/6FHp7x2A on regulation affecting Gree & DeNA

  • Startup valuation is not a science. It’s an art that combines current market valuations, your traction, and your negotiating leverage…

  • My Little Pony Goes To Bullet Hell In My Little Pegasus: Kizuna DoPonyPachi http://t.co/m2b3K1zw

  • Terry Jones’ Starship Titanic | The Novel Terry Jones’ (of Monty Pythons fame) book Starship Titanic is finally available for free online! The free online edition of the book has all the words in alphabetical order.

  • Bayonetta Non-Stop Infinite Climax (bosses) 1of2

  • Bayonetta Non-Stop Infinite Climax (bosses) 1of2

  • And this is pure gold from yesterday: http://t.co/yBLuymNh (via @Jamie_McHale)

  • The World’s Top 100 Venture Capitalists in 2012: http://t.co/yvzWvG2l via @newspin

  • New post by @sgblank on Why Innovation Dies: http://t.co/5D2V2tp0 #custdev #innovation

  • Podcast #5: How to be a successful indie developer | GamesIndustry International http://t.co/WrYmmblL

  • How to Fix All of Your Biggest YouTube Annoyances: Hide Comments, Turn Off Autoplay, and More [YouTube]

  • Do companies really need public enemies to innovate, like @FastCompany suggests? http://t.co/rfMCqe3H

  • Double Fine’s Kickstarter-funded adventure game to use the Lua-based Moai platform

  • Other Apps Could Learn from News.me’s Location Features

  • Tween girls doubled their game usage in the past year

  • What Do Consumers Really Want? Simplicity

  • Why we need Bayonetta 2

  • Lost doujin games (NSFW)

  • Managers Don’t Really Want to Innovate

  • Designer Jane McGonigal launches ‘gratitude network’ game for Oprah Winfrey

  • Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen

  • This is how you’ll edit Portal 2 levels

  • Is your startup failing? Here’s how to exit gracefully

  • PlaySay gamifies language learning with speech recognition app

  • Hacked Skype IP Address Search Shows Who’s Speaking From Where

  • “Creativity Is Just Connecting Things” [Quotables]

  • Barnes & Noble to add NFC to Nook e-reader

  • Zynga starts promoting third-party partner social games

  • MIT Tetris Hack: Source Code Released

  • Running a startup True story (again).

  • Facebook Urges Members to Add Organ Donor Status Good move from Facebook

  • Zuckerberg’s girlfriend and Steve Jobs’ liver transplant inspired Facebook’s new organ donor feature

  • Toys R Us facing financial struggle

  • Sega urinal game ‘Toylets’ goes on sale to general public, sink companion still missing (video)

  • Adventure games are the literature of gaming. :-)

  • Etrian Odyssey IV Uses QR Codes For Guild Card Exchanges & Unlockable Quests

  • KegDroid pours beer with NFC

  • Microsoft’s HomeOS brings smarter homes, blue hallway of death

  • Quasar gives the iPad untabbed windows for ten dollars and a jailbreak (video)

  • Fez and the lost art of taking notes

  • Creative Assembly’s ‘fairly brutal’ approach to achieving high Metacritic scores

  • MySites for Chrome Transforms the New Tab Page into a Metro-Inspired Speed Dialer [Chrome Extensions]

  • Microsoft partners with Barnes & Noble in $300 million e-reading investment

  • Huawei throws R&D dollars at gesture control, cloud storage, being more ‘disruptive’

  • ‘Angry Birds Space’ Hits 50 Million Downloads Space reached 50M downloads in 35 days, making it the fastest selling mobile game ever!

  • Repurpose Ikea Shelves Into a Storage Bed Platform [Ikea Hacks]

  • Beatbar – media player that beats in the browser address bar This is awesome!

  • Apple saves billions in taxes through very creative accounting, says NYT

  • Google Cube: Because you’re dying to play a game about Google Maps

  • Robert Scoble on the startups that cross the ‘freaky line’, at TNW2012 [Video]

  • A technical look at C++ GameDev in the Browser Interesting article on writing C++ for the web!

  • Mon thème Chrome : créez votre propre thème sur Google Chrome

  • The Real Reason Aeris’s Death Made You Cry [Video]

  • Here’s How Sega Thought They Could Sell You A Crappy Kinect Game [Rise Of Nightmares]

  • The Emotions Free-to-Play Games Prey on to Get Players to Pay [Free-To-Play]

  • How to Properly Cook a Steak (in Your Kitchen)? [Crowdhacker]

  • iCleaner Deletes Junk Files and Frees Up Space on Your Jailbroken iPhone [Maintenance]

  • AppMotion Turns iPhone & iPod Touch Into Motion Controllers for iPad – Gotta Be Mobile: USA TODAYAppMotion Turns… http://t.co/qnQNZ74v

  • How to boost creativity, from Adobe’s Chief Strategist Mark Randall at TNW 2012 [video]

  • Evernote CEO Phil Libin: “My advice to aspiring entrepreneurs? Don’t do it” [Video]

  • When Will this Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

  • The More You Struggle with New Information the More Likely You Are to Learn It [Learning]

  • Poo Wi-Fi : des crottes de chiens contre du Wi-Fi au Mexique

  • Covify scans album covers so you can listen to them on Spotify instead (video)

  • “People Will Be Happy” Watching These Incredibly Abrupt Old-School Game Endings [Video]

  • Gifture: The stunning iOS app that turns your photos into awesome animated GIFs

  • Une console portable sous Android 4.0

  • That Game About Dating Disabled Girls is Excellent (And You Should Play It) [Video]

  • A Reminder of Just How Cool the PS Vita Can Be [Video]

  • Now that’s the kind of news story I like to read! #EatKebabs RT @HuffingtonPost Man’s life saved by kebab http://t.co/2PcOPEMI

  • How Suicide Made This Japanese Game Developer Famous [Video]

  • Star Castle finally finds a home on the Atari 2600, gets a redesigned cartridge

  • Go Type “Zerg Rush” Into Google [StarCraft]

  • How to make a Text Adventure

  • Send Files to Dropbox, Google Drive, and More From Windows’ Right-Click Menu [Dropbox]

  • Google’s Project Glass snaps a photo of Charlie Rose mid-interview

  • It’s Official: Google Has Lost Control of the Android Tablet Market

  • The Story Behind Sony’s Homebrew Development Kits [Blip]

  • Redditor got ‘a little carried away’ and made this Android Metroid gauge

  • Increase Your Team’s Motivation Five-Fold

  • Home Heating Automation with Google Calendar [Video]

  • Go Innovate on the Periphery

  • Ikea et son appareil photo numérique en carton Knäppa !

  • Nintendo Just Posted Its First Annual Loss [Nintendo]

  • How Beautiful Video Game Shirts Are Made [Video]

  • Super Monkey Ball Vita: Stage Edit and Mini Games

  • Opinion: Rejection Of StarDrone Level-skip DLC Shows Where To Draw The Line

  • 10 Alien Species from Star Wars Who Became Jedi Knights [Video]

  • Worth a thousand words: 6 beautifully designed tablet apps

  • A Super Mario Summary crams Mario levels into single screen

  • What Video Games Teach Us About Marriage [Marriage]

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