I am Charles Parra, and I am interested in digital communication technology. This site is used to capture things that I find worth sharing. I am currently working on a platform to support the development of cross-platform social games. I like to say that my head is in the cloud these days as I focus on defining a set of web services to support social game development.

13th September 2012

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I love these retro-style ads →

20th August 2012

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Book encoded in DNA →

Interesting new developments in genomics

10th August 2012

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Always fun to look back in time. Anyone remember the Frox? 

The remote control is pretty much a Wii controller.

3rd July 2012

Link reblogged from Roger and Mike's Hypernet Blog with 23 notes

Roger and Mike's Hypernet Blog: HTML 5: The Next Big Thing for Content →

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by Roger McNamee

“Hypertext Mark-up Language 5 (HTML 5) is just a programming language.” A famous investor said this to me 18 months ago. The statement is true, especially if you delete the word “just.” But it misses the point.

As programming languages go, HTML 5 may be unusually disruptive….

19th June 2012

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Dream Desks →

I’m a little obsessed with workspace design at the moment and these desks are inspiring.

15th June 2012

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@ The Ascent in Brooklyn (Taken with Instagram)

@ The Ascent in Brooklyn (Taken with Instagram)

15th June 2012

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@ The Ascent in Brooklyn (Taken with Instagram)

@ The Ascent in Brooklyn (Taken with Instagram)

15th June 2012

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@ The Ascent in Brooklyn (Taken with Instagram)

@ The Ascent in Brooklyn (Taken with Instagram)

1st June 2012

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Genius use of limited space

31st May 2012

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Microsoft Windows over the years →