On: Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google...

[revelation]

I was sure this was about some multiplayer game thing, but no, it's a crossword. Not entirely sure what they are even scaling here, I was expecting an article about a CDN..

[jprob → revelation]

The game allows you to sync your game progress across multiple devices and it's subscription based so a CDN wouldn't do much help there.

Also, realtime multiplayer crosswords are coming! I'll be speaking at GothamGo this year about that exact topic.

[jonknee → revelation]

It’s a paid service that hundreds of thousands of people use. Not world changing stuff, but considering competitors are still using Java applets and Flash, I for one applaud their efforts.