"@raphkoster: For the late crowd: breaking down choice architectures in games:  http://www.raphkoster.com/2013/04/24/on-choice-architectures/ …" worth reading #gamedesign #behavior

Backed By $3.25 Million ..., Tynker Launches Its Visual "Learn To Code" platform for kids  http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/backed-by-3-5-million-from-nea-500-startups-felicis-others-tynker-launches-its-visual-learn-to-code-platform-for-children/ … via @chetansharma #edtech

Embedded+Wearables=distributed ensembles r back>> Apple's Long-Rumored Game Controller May Soon See The Light Of Day  http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/29/apples-long-rumored-game-controller-may-soon-see-the-light-of-day/ …

"@arstechnica: Mozilla making the Web a gaming platform with Unreal 3 engine in a browser  http://ars.to/14oPHt7  by @drpizza" #tocheckout

Agree. Creates/closes click2buy loops too. “@stevenlevy: "Send to Kindle" button on webpages and blogs? Brilliant.  http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/19/amazon-launches-send-to-kindle-button-for-web-publishers-and-wordpress-blogs/ …”

On "conversational" search #nlp RT @mattcutts Reading "How Search Is Evolving — Finally! — Beyond Caveman Queries":  http://goo.gl/5JX1R 

game+video cycles in story-telling >> Rovio to launch Angry Birds cartoons inside its mobile games  http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/11/rovio-to-launch-angry-birds-cartoons-inside-its-mobile-games/#BdBi1c5oMGkWaL6j.02 … via @venturebeat

"@eldon: How Andrew Mason Has Revolutionized Firing Memos" << memo text here.  http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/02/28/ceo-andrew-mason-replaced-by-eric-lefkofsky-and-vice-chairman-ted-leonsis-at-groupon/ …

#edtech taking off .. >> Ed tech accelerators go corporate: Pearson and Kaplan launch startup programs  http://gigaom.com/2013/02/20/ed-tech-accelerators-go-corporate-pearson-and-kaplan-launch-startup-programs/ … via @gigaom

The scary acronym-loaded soup that is early childhood education #edtech >> Schools Ask: Gifted or Just Well-Prepared?  http://nyti.ms/W4mMT5 

Twitter's engineering contributions are insightful, interesting. Twitter Stack explained >> RT @twittereng Braindump  http://dlvr.it/2sK92L 

@ciberch Done! I've wanted to dive into Ruby for a while now but didn't have a 'project' to push me. @codecademy solved that problem! #ftw

Must hand it to @codecademy -- the experience is fun, useful and quite addictive (witness this being close to 1:30am EST). Next: Ruby?

Y Combinator Backs Its First Non-Profit, Watsi; Paul Graham Says He's "Never Been So Excited" To Invest  http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/y-combinator-backs-its-first-non-profit-watsi-paul-graham-says-hes-never-been-so-excited-to-invest/ … via @techcrunch

Tim Berbers-Lee pays tribute “@nelson: All 30 of the articles on the Hacker News front page now are about @aaronsw. pic.twitter.com/1UEkubc1”

NYTimes: Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition. << deep insights vs. cursory by-the-numbers modeling.  http://nyti.ms/RYqUaQ 

Whoa. Beautiful. >> Via @nprnews: A 3.8 Billion-Pixel Tour Of Mount Everest  http://n.pr/ZiWmDV 

Awesome! #pydata NYC videos now online  http://vimeo.com/channels/pydata  -- worth watching for quick intro/ramp-up to python data analysis tools/libs +1

NFC-enabled music poster at JFK. Tried it with Samsung III. Instantaneous browser launch but poor followup in download http://t.co/KAR9xcdr

Worth a read!! #highscalability >> 7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month http://t.co/7Y0sqiB5