There seems to be no holding back the growth of UK-basedMindcandy‘s social game for kids,Moshi Monsters. As we’ve previouslyreported, this thing is a phenomenon and now it’s getting into the music business. Moshi Monsters is launching its own record label which will release songs and videos by various characters such as ‘Dustbin Beaver’, ’49 Pence’, ‘Broccoli Spears’, ‘Hairosniff’ and ‘Avril Le Scream’. First up for download will be ‘The Moshi Dance‘ by Lady GooGoo, which is set for release on iTunes from 18 September....

Mosobrings users a bank of animations, motion text and sound effects that can be easily added to video and shared with your social networks. A series of cool animated effects can be recorded on-the-fly and overlaid on a live webcam feed or added to imported videos and images. Animations and Sound Effects After looking through the collection of animations, it came to mind immediately that this will be great for the YouTube crowd....

Most ads you see are chosen by a reinforcement learning model — here’s how it works Naïve A/B/n testing To better understand how reinforcement learning optimizes ads, consider a very simple scenario: You’re the owner of a news website. To pay for the costs of hosting and staff, you have entered a contract with a company to run their ads on your website. The company has provided you with five different ads and will pay you one dollar every time a visitor clicks on one of the ads....

Today, a new site called “Most Interesting People in the Room” launches as a new, incentivized way for highly intellectual and curious people to communicate, forum style on the Internet. The site’s founder, serial entrepreneur Colin Wright, explains the inspiration behind his new site: “I was in Thailand on an island with a group of friends. We had this great night on the beach getting into these semi-drunken discussions. While everyone experiences these kinds of conversations, with certain people those discussions get taken up a notch and life changing ideas are put into your head....

Most mobile apps suck — here’s how to fix them Working offline Even 10 years after the rise of smartphones, we can’t assume devices will always be online. Developers must think offline-first when building an app. The best ones take full advantage of connectivity when available, but understand it’s temporary. For offline, apps need a way to store data on the device. That way they can still function when the service drops....