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DLS @ SXSW - Crowd Fusion
I spoke to Brian Alvey, co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. and the guy who built Blogsmith -- the same engine Download Squad, TUAW, Engadget and our other blogs use) about his newest creation: Crowd Fusion. There are quite a few CMS products to choose from out there, but Crowd Fusion is built to perform at scale while boasting an impressive feature set. That's because Brian knows a thing or two about scale! Having had the experience of watching Engadget and TUAW cover Steve Jobs keynotes and CES and Detroit Auto Show (Autoblog also uses Blogsmith), not to mention Brian's early gigs building industry-grade sites, the team at Crowd Fusion has experience when it comes to building rock-solid CMS tools that enable content programmers to do just about anything they can imagine. If it sounds like I'm gushing it's not because I used to work (somewhat indirectly) for Brian -- it's because I've seen what Crowd Fusion can do. You can see it too on this demo from TC50 last September. You can also join the open source beta program to test Crowd Fusion out for yourself.
The Illusionist's Dream is a simple platformer; you play as a magician who needs to get through each level by transforming into any number of animals that you encounter along the way.
Each animal can do different things; the butterfly can obviously fly, but if it encounters a frog, the frog eats it, and you have to start over again. There's also a fox that runs fast and leaps far, but it eats any rabbits that cross its path. That means that, if you may need to be a rabbit later on, you need to take that into account ...
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Evenio said 8:08PM on 3-19-2010
Here's hoping it supports a better comment system than Blogsmith's. :P *ducks*
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William Wolf said 5:25AM on 3-21-2010
I know this is completely random but this guy has to be (is) an ENTP. I can sense the arrogance in my fellow entps. He's got that similar "Anything you can do I can do 100 million times better" way of talking. "Wiki's are terrible, Other frameworks are terrible...." TBH, I now have a man crush on this guy.
Now, on to the software. I've checked out his website and I agree that it do-
es give me that "best of both worlds" feeling. From the examples he has up;
especially Obsessable; you can tell the front-end is easy to design around &
easy to navigate. I've not gotten the pleasure to see the back-end but it is s-
omething that I am looking forward too. This is definitely on my to review lis-
t.
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