Chris Webb

Professional XNA Author in Wired Magazine

Last night, as I was flipping through my new issue of Wired, I was pleasantly surprised to find a short piece on Benjamin Nitschke, the author of my recently published book Professional XNA Game Programming for Xbox 360 and Windows (which is now shipping from Amazon.com and other fine retailers.)  The piece focused on his [...]

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Crowdhacking: 10 Simple Ways Authors Can Help to Increase Sales at Amazon.com

More from the March 2007 issue of Wired – Annalee Newitz’s piece entitled Herding the Mob explores the influence of online crowds like Digg and eBay, and how the mobs themselves can be influenced, and in many cases gamed. “On the Web, we let strangers tell us who to trust, what to read, and where to [...]

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Snack Culture and its Effect on Publishing

The March 2007 issue of Wired features a cover story on “The New World of One-Minute Entertainment” and how media is being distributed and consumed in quick and easy chunks. In a world where viewers prefer a series of 60 second webisodes streamed to mobile phones instead of weekly 30 minute program, do [...]

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