Just wanted to quickly bring to your attention two interesting upcoming events at Reykjavik University (www.hr.is) that might well be of interest to IGI members.

1 - MIT Global Startup Workshop taking place March 24th-26th

2 - Lecture Marathon 2010 taking place Friday March 19th

Hope to see you there :)

A Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Phone Developer Tools is available today as a free single download at developer.windowsphone.com

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Thanks to all for a great meetup last Thursday. In total about 50 people stopped by I believe and it was a great atmosphere and a good chance to chat over beer :o)

Maybe we just need more events like this - shorter time for talking/presenting, more time for beer and chat..?
:)

Lastly a reminder to all interested in the IGI Awards - the last workshop is merged with a visit to the Gogogic office Saturday the 13th of March -… Continue

A brief mention of educational games on the Guardian website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/03/naomi-alderman-educational-games

prompted me to remind everyone not to forget the genre of educational games. Despite a setback some years ago, that genre is now coming back stronger than ever as research into the various new pedagogical approaches it allowed for continued. One e… Continue

So it turns out some people see us, on this floating iceberg in the N-Atlantic, as the pinnacle of innovation...
Thinking about that for a while, there has certainly been an immense push in the last 18 months or so. It seems a huge portion of those that lost their jobs aren't giving up, but instead trying to create their own opportunities.

The same of course is happening within our own industry here and hopefully we (the IGI) can continue to help out and support that development. So… Continue