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10. "A Bug's Life" (1998)
Borrowing its template from "The Seven Samurai," this adventurous follow-up to the paradigm-shifting "Toy Story" is a widescreen retelling of the grasshopper and the ant fable. Except this time the ant is a neurotic inventor (Dave Foley) and the grasshopper is the leader of a ruthless biker game (Kevin Spacey). When the ant goes away to the big city to recruit warriors to combat the villainous grasshoppers, he ends up hiring a bunch of circus performers (including David Hyde Pierce, Madeline Kahn, Jonathan Harris and Denis Leary). The Pixar team was still relatively small when "A Bug's Life" was completed, and much of the creative team (including director John Lasseter) went straight from "Toy Story" into "A Bug's Life." Not that this kind of fatigue shows. If anything, it makes the movie, with dozens of principle characters and expansive crowd sequences, even more impressive. (Famously, Pixar re-framed the complex crowd sequences for the full frame home video, something that now seems like an incredible waste of time.) "A Bug's Life" is colorful and often quite funny (it introduced the credit sequence "bloopers" that would become a mainstay of Pixar movies for a little while), but lacks emotional resonance. More a dazzling technical achievement than a storytelling tour de force, it none-the-less proved that the computer-animated feature, more adept at crafting geometrically perfect structures, could capture the outdoors in a naturalistic way.
9. "Toy Story 2" (1999)
One of the rare sequels that is just as good as the original, "Toy Story 2" started life as a direct-to-video sequel that the studio was producing on the down low. When John Lasseter and Disney executives saw the quality of the story, they decided it could be a theatrical release, and Lasseter stepped in to massively overhaul the movie in a little over a year, which is unheard of for an animated film, especially a computer animated film (this was still during the technology's infancy). "Toy Story 3" deepened the original film's "mythology" by exploring Woody's origins – as a highly valuable tie-in for a long lost "Howdy Doody"-type television show, and introduced a second Buzz Lightyear (still Tim Allen), who was just as delusional as Buzz was in the first film. The sequel hedged pretty closely to the original from a structural standpoint (with an obsessive toy collector standing in for the abusive kid next door, and an elaborate runway chase replacing the moving van chase from the first film) but offered some nice new flourishes, the best of which being the introduction of the cowgirl Jesse (Joan Cusack) character, whose tragic backstory makes for a moving, Sarah McLachlan-sung musical interlude. Many elements of the sequel, including the fantastical videogame-world opening and the more adult themes of loss and memory, would be expanded upon and perfected in the following film. But at the time, "Toy Story 2" was as close to a peerless follow-up as you could have asked for – visually, thematically, and emotionally rich.
8. "Toy Story" (1995)
The one that started it all, "Toy Story" was the rare combination of technological breakthrough and storytelling prowess. The movie, which we can't forget was not only the first feature-length Pixar movie but also the first entirely computer-generated feature (ever), was based in part on a short film Lasseter had directed called "Tin Toy" that imagined what rich interior lives toys must have when their owners are not around. From that came the creation of Woody (Hanks), a cowboy doll and the favorite toy of Andy… That is until Andy gets a brand new, high tech toy in the form of Buzz Lightyear (Allen) for his birthday. Suddenly Woody feels inadequate and outdated. In a fit of jealousy he tries to shove Buzz out of the picture (quite literally), which leads to him also getting abandoned. The movie, at its heart, is a classic buddy movie in the vein of "48 Hrs" or "Midnight Run," which was quite shocking given that it was released by Disney during the height of their Disney Renaissance period, one that was largely defined by big, Broadway-style musicals (there are songs in "Toy Story" but they're warbled by Randy Newman and played in the background, not the foreground). In a way, "Toy Story" is a metaphor for animation – with Woody representing the traditional, hand-drawn animation that the makers of "Toy Story" grew up on (and still love) and Buzz standing in for the computer animated features that would come to dominate the marketplace. While some of the imagery is overtly simplistic by today's standards, the movie still moves – and from a storytelling standpoint the movie is even more impressive when you think that the filmmakers behind the movie (besides from a few key outside collaborators like Joss Whedon) weren't traditionally trained in film. They were guys who wrote code and developed software. And yet they made one of the most exhilarating animated features of all time, full of characters that will literally live forever.
7. "Finding Nemo" (2003)
At the time of its release, "Finding Nemo" soon became the biggest animated feature of all time (surpassed later by one of the "Shrek" sequels) and it's easy to see why – the tale of a father clown fish named Marlin (Albert Brooks) who loses his son after years of being overtly cautious and super protective – is something that everyone can relate to (even cowboys have daddy issues). And the characters are well drawn, from Marlin's forgetful partner-in-crime Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) to the motley crew of fish that surround Nemo in the dentist's waiting room aquarium (most notably Willem Defoe). There's a reason that there are 'Nemo'-themed attractions at Disney's Animal Kingdom, EPCOT Center, Disney California Adventure, and Disneyland theme parks and a sequel in the works – people love this movie. But upon re-watching it during its recent theatrical 3D conversion, revealed that not all of "Finding Nemo" works. The bisected storyline, split between Marlin's journey and Nemo's imprisonment, often slows down the movie's pace (at times it nearly crawls); the Marlin/Dory dynamic was too familiar at the time, when it seemed like every Pixar movie was going to be a variation of a buddy movie; and the movie's extra climax, wherein Nemo gets caught in a net (again) and has to convince the similarly captured fish to swim to the bottom of the ocean so that they could all escape, is both tedious and thematically redundant. We get it. Let's move on. Still, "Finding Nemo" has an undeniable powerful, one that can speak to anyone, really. It's also a singularly beautiful Pixar movie too, with the naturalistic style that they pioneered for "A Bug's Life" plunged under the ocean, with relatively few stylistic flourishes (comparatively, "Finding Nemo" was a low-budget movie because they blew so much R&D money on "Monsters Inc."). It's just that, like Dory, it's easy to forget some of the film's problems because it's so easy to praise the work as a whole.
6. "Monsters, Inc." (2001)
Pixar had some experience in world building by the time "Monsters, Inc." rolled around in 2001, but the worlds they had constructed where microcosmic and very much a part of our own reality. With "Monsters, Inc." they crafted an entirely separate universe, one in which monsters cultivate the screams of children to power their own modern cities, using a system of magical doors. It's an ingenious concept and one that relates to our own childhood fears of the monster in the closet (who turns out is just an employee at what amounts to a large energy corporation). There's a kind of frazzled inventiveness to every frame of "Monsters, Inc.," from the design of the characters (like the one-eyed Mike and the blue, furry Sulley) to the system of doors, which really pays off in a jaw-dropping climax where our heroes and villains ride the doors through the labyrinthine back channels of the corporation. It's also a sly take on our ongoing energy crisis and a loving homage to the monster movies of yore (a popular restaurant in the monster-y universe is Harryhausen's, named after the great, recently departed effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen). But the real reason "Monsters, Inc." works so well is the emotional connection forged between the tiny human who is unleashed in the monster world (who they nickname Boo) and Sulley, a giant, fearsome monster whose job it is to scare little kids just like Boo. The way their relationship develops, mostly wordlessly, is a testament to the confident storytelling prowess of the studio. The way the movie ends is probably one of the most powerful moments the studio has ever crafted, one that is delicate and unforced. The simplicity and emotional power of "Monsters, Inc." is what made a sequel seem (for a while at least) inconceivable. But with a world as large and immersive as the one created for "Monsters, Inc.," there are undoubtedly many, many different stories to tell.
Jacob C | August 29, 2014 12:39 PM
Other than the two Cars movies, I'd argue every Pixar movie is at the very least great (and the Cars movies aren't all that bad...just boring and cliche). Brave is a movie that is tainted in critics' minds because of the behind-the-scenes controversy, but I was completely unaware of it going into the film, and I found it masterful. A brilliant take on classic fairytale formula.
...Incredibles is definitely #1 though.
Sydney | August 18, 2014 10:37 PM
The Incredibles will always be #1 in my opinion. You'd think with the cliche of super heros, it would be a train wreck. But even as a child I always marveled at it's visual beauty, everything was so sleek and made you feel mature and just pulled you in with suspense. I loved how it was at times realistic, those moments were rare but you knew them when you saw them.
I'd love to know why Frozen wasn't anywhere on this list, it was so stupid and lacked richness in logic and detail. How did Elsa get her powers in a completely normal, royal, Scandinavian family? Olaf was the cliche ill-humored leftover crap of every other Disney sidekick character. Anna was just an annoying reincarnation of Repunzel from Tangled, which was another Pixar flop. Elsa's powers getting stronger was more of an all-bark-no-bite thing, they made it out like she was gonna become an evil ice witch with mad ice powers, but all she did was unintentionally leak ice on whatever she stood, sat, or touched, and ran away fearfully crying.
Mehek | August 12, 2014 4:37 PM
WALL - E, better then Monsters Inc? Are you serious? I went to watch WALL-E in cinema, and halfway through, I fell asleep. So boring.
breaddeficiency | August 6, 2014 4:36 AM
1 thing I'd rather do than watch The Incredibles: Watch Frozen 13 times
Liv | July 22, 2014 11:59 AM
Lol, MoNster's
Liv | July 22, 2014 11:57 AM
Mosters INC :b
Liv | July 22, 2014 11:54 AM
In my opinion...
UP was ludicrous and highly overrated. The only good part was the beginning. The rest of the story was so bogus I found myself rolling my eyes throughout the whole film. I'm surprised they didn't stick like that.
Finding Nemo was a massive cliche but I still enjoyed it for the most part because the animation was brilliant, the cinamatography spectacular. And Dori was hillarious.
CARS and CARS 2 shouldn't even be on this list, they were dreadful. Even UP, as bad as it was, was decent enough to make the list.
Anthropomorphic romances are not always my cup of tea which is only one of the reasons I wasn't crazy about CARS, so WALL-E was a little odd to watch, however, i love post-apocalyptic fiction so the first part of the film was pretty entertaining. The rest wasn't bad either. I really liked the funny little vacuum who kept cleaning stuff :b
I love THE INCREDIBLES, it was a great story and very funny but putting it at number one is a bit farfetched. I'd say, number 5 would be a better fit.
TOY STORY will always be number one. MONSTERS INK at number two. Followed by TS2 and TS3.
Mandy | July 10, 2014 7:53 AM
why the f-ck does everyone think wall-e is so d-mn great? Has to be the most boring pixar movie ever made!
Sarvesh | June 4, 2014 10:44 AM
Dude The Incredibles @ 1?...u must be from some other planet! This list is a piece of bull-shit!
Cameron | May 4, 2014 11:50 PM
This list is a joke, incredibles @ #1?
Toy story 1 should be #1
Fuck You | April 14, 2014 12:02 AM
this is bull you dont know anything about freaking pixar you ruined my whole damn childhood thanks bud
Brad | February 11, 2014 2:17 PM
I thought Brave was a masterful movie, even by Pixar standards. To be fair, it's a departure in tone from the usual Pixar material which can sometimes be a little cornball for adult taste. It has sort of a Grim Fairy Tales narrative which can come across as odd to some but like many movies that aren't grasped easily at first, Brave benefits greatly from repeated viewings. The visuals are by far the most stunning of any Pixar movie to date and I believe the more traditional storyline will stand the test of time much more easily than something like Wall-E that beats you relentlessly over the head with political satire.
M | January 23, 2014 11:53 AM
I'd agree with the top 3, but I'd change the ORDER of it around to Up (1), Incredibles (2) and Ratatouille (3).
I'd place Wall-E low though (It's first half is good, but it's second half is just plain crap. And it gets forgiven for that much to often). But otherwise I largely agree with the list.
Though Pixar delivers consistent quality I also think it's a bit to much of a critics darling and therefor tends to be somewhat overrated. (Which isn't the case for it's genuine masterpieces (particularly up) but IS the case for some of it's more middle films (like Finding Nemo, which is certainly not at all bad, but not a masterpiece either.)
Also though Pixar stood out positively compared to early Dreamworks (Which had just plain awful films like Shark Tale) Modern Dreamworks (And some smaller studio's) stepped up their game and mad movies that certainly compare well to TYPICAL Pixar films. Therefor I think Pixar could stand to be looked at a little more critically.
Take Ratatouille for example, it's excellent and one of my favourite Pixar movies, but even so it's far from flawless. (The biggest and easiest flaw is obvious... Linguini, who's ultimately by HIMSELF a pretty damn boring stock character. (Now REMY I think on the other hand is an excellent character and he's why I love the movie even so. (Remy is definitly one of my favourite chars from cgi films!) And there's a lot of other things I love about the movie, but flawless? No... Aside from Linguini there's also Ego the critic, I love him up until that damned ending speech he gives. I liked the idea of a sour and mean but HONEST critic. But in the end he gives a speech that amounts to 'critics suck', and that's SO the wrong message. It just drives me nuts. A lot of people love that ending speech, but I HATE it, I would have much more liked the message that being a bitter person is not necessary being a bad person, what matters is honesty. And that two honest people can definitely be bitterly adversarial (Ego's relation with Gousteau), but that that doesn't necessarily means the bitter mean person is inherently a bad person who's wrong about everything. (Which unfortunately the speech then decided IS the message. So good movie, yes... and WELL above average in spite of everything. But flawless... no.
I guess ultimately on Pixar my opinion is what it is on many old school popular RPG series... Definitly good, definitly high end stuff... But STILL overvalued and unwarrantedly gushed over. With flaws where other studio's would be skinned alive over, completely forgiven in Pixar's products.
Eliot | January 2, 2014 2:17 PM
I loved Brave. I don't get what everybody is complaining about. They probably can't handle a female main character or something. (kidding though it is true for some people..I know 2 buds in real life..but maybe I just have bad luck in people surrounding me lol)
1 Brave (best pixar main character ever and for once its about a mom and daugther instead of a romance. Girls always need a guy in animation and that is boring. This one broke that tradition. A wonderfull and importand lesson and like in most pixar movies. I like that kind of fire in a gal.)
2 Up (Second best main character, that old guy was great, it did get weaker the second part but still. Possible the animated movie I cried most on. Yeah I cried and I ain't being ashamed of that. )
3 A bugs life (very underrated movie who deserves a lot better. I remember this being one of my fave movies as a kid. But people tend to not like bugs and might feel bad for killing them after watching this movie :3 )
4 (almost everything else, I love these movies equaly all for DIFFERENT reasons)
Toy Story (made me think toys where real, oh the hours I tried catching them talk..)
Rattatoile (rat in kitchen = win)
Incredibels (yay a family with no dead people in it)
Wall- E (that Robot was awesome and would have scored higher if not for the last part of the film)
Monsters Inc ( Loved the 2 friends and the little girl and monster being afraid of children)
Toy Story 2 ( a sequal that did a good job as a sequal.)
5 Toy Story 3 (hated the ending though)
6 Monsters U (fun but not special)
7 Finding Nemo...(I saw it..and I did like it but I do feel it is very very overrated. I wanted to see more son father stuff, not all this random chasing in the sea and the ''bad guys'' where lacking, Dori was annoying. I have no clue why nemo is so loved and Brave not when the reason people claim to love nemo (father son relation) is not nearly as worked out as the mother daughter one in Brave.. Perhaps because they have the wrong gender. I do wonder how people would have ranked Brave had merida been a boy and Nemo's dad been a mother. Anyway, overrated movie and would have been my least loved pixar movie if not for the last 2.
13 Cars (but I have nothing with cars so that might be the reason, I still enjoyed the movie though. I am biased on this because I dislike cars in general. I admit had the same story happend with something different then cars I might have scored it higher. Still, despite it being low on my list it is still a fun movie to watch and still recommend to anyone who likes animated movies.)
14 Cars 2 (Just not my thing.)
Anyway people should igore critics and lists really. Just watch all the movies and decided for yourself. you love Nemo best? Good for you! Keep watching it and loving it and enjoy it as long as you can. :) You like Brave best? Also good for you. Don't let the critics or other people ruin it for you.
In the end all Pixar movies are well made, and what is the best and what is the worst is something opinion based only. Everybody has their own favorites. And this is a wonderfull thing.
I just hope more movies will keep comming. Even If I won't love them all, thats ok. Some other people will and that is wonderfull for them.
Let go watch more movies people! And forever share our love for them, because if we agree on lists or not, we can agree on enjoying movies. In the end that is most importand. ^^
oh the sappiness...lol anyway I leave in peace.
lloyd | September 29, 2013 1:59 PM
A Bugs Life. I find this film very funny and light movie. Very Entertaining.
Monster Inc.
Finding Nemo
Toy Story 1 & 3
Blair Matsen | September 3, 2013 4:04 AM
14. Cars 2 - 7.1/10
13. Brave - 7.5/10
12. Cars - 8.2/10
11. Monsters University - 8.4/10
10. Incredibles - 8.8/10
09. Ratatouille - 8.9/10
08. Toy Story 2 - 9.1/10
06. Up! - 9.3/10
05. Monsters Inc. - 9.5/10
04. A Bugs Life - 9.6/10
03. Toy Story 3 - 9.7/10
02. Finding Nemo 9.8/10
01. Toy Story 10/10
Kieren | July 16, 2013 12:34 AM
Wall-E, Toy Story, and Finding Nemo are amongst my favourites.
I never liked Ratatouille, it didn't feel 'Pixar' like. The Toy Story sequels didn't live up to my expectations; and I feel that the Incredibles could have been so much more.
I always make a point on these lists, as they seem to never get it right, A Bugs Life is always, ALWAYS, underrated. It was a great film, and one of my favourites, if not my favourite, even more so than the ones I listed above. It seems it's the Pixar movie everyone but me has forgotten about.
Kieren | July 16, 2013 12:33 AM
Wall-E, Toy Story, and Finding Nemo are amongst my favourites.
I never liked Ratatouille, it didn't feel 'Pixar' like. The Toy Story sequels didn't live up to my expectations; and I feel that the Incredibles could have been so much more.
I always make a point on these lists, as they seem to never get it right, A Bugs Life is always, ALWAYS, underrated. It was a great film, and one of my favourites, if not my favourite, even more so than the ones I listed above. It seems it's the Pixar movie everyone but me has forgotten about.
Kieren | July 16, 2013 12:33 AM
Wall-E, Toy Story, and Finding Nemo are amongst my favourites.
I never liked Ratatouille, it didn't feel 'Pixar' like. The Toy Story sequels didn't live up to my expectations; and I feel that the Incredibles could have been so much more.
I always make a point on these lists, as they seem to never get it right, A Bugs Life is always, ALWAYS, underrated. It was a great film, and one of my favourites, if not my favourite, even more so than the ones I listed above. It seems it's the Pixar movie everyone but me has forgotten about.
Kieren | July 16, 2013 12:32 AM
Wall-E, Toy Story, and Finding Nemo are amongst my favourites.
I never liked Ratatouille, it didn't feel 'Pixar' like. The Toy Story sequels didn't live up to my expectations; and I feel that the Incredibles could have been so much more.
I always make a point on these lists, as they seem to never get it right, A Bugs Life is always, ALWAYS, underrated. It was a great film, and one of my favourites, if not my favourite, even more so than the ones I listed above. It seems it's the Pixar movie everyone but me has forgotten about.
Hack Fraud | July 16, 2013 12:01 AM
Despite being visually incredible like many of Pixar's films, Wall-E is by far their worst, not to say that it's a bad film, but to say that it wasn't enjoyable. The film kept hitting everyone over the head continuously with obvious social commentary that was horribly ignorant and unwarranted in a children's film, remember that this is not a Ridley Scott film. The Incredibles and many other Pixar films were able to successfully make subtle social commentary that didn't bog down the narrative so I'm wondering how Wall-E ruined it. It also did't help that most of the characters were underdeveloped, especially compared to Pixar standards; Wall-E's character literally has no arc other than the fact that he gets the girl in the end, something that's standard in far too many films already. This is further compounded by the fact that there are no stakes in the film, making it hard to care. In the climax Wall-E is fighting to save a ship full of selfish, ignorant, lazy, and horrible people who have done nothing to him but condemn him to an eternity of collecting their garbage. I feel like an alien, what world do I live in where people are enjoying this? Greatest animated movie of all time? No, the Incredibles is the greatest animated movie of all time.
Papa Osso | July 11, 2013 5:13 PM
01-Monsters, Inc
02-Toy Story 3
04-The Incredibles
05-Toy Story
08-Toy Story 2
10-Monsters U
12-A Bug's Life
14-Cars 2
DrAsawa | July 11, 2013 9:24 AM
I'm not sure about UP, but The Incredibles and Ratatouille by far deserved the top spots. Wall-E, Toy Story 3, and Monsters inc. also were top 5 material.
Hiccup | July 11, 2013 9:20 AM
I just want to add that part of Wall-E's amazing success is because of the ability and brilliance of music composer Thomas Newman to move the whole wordless beginning along. If you're going to mention how great Giacchino was for Up (and don't get me wrong, all of his work with Pixar has been legendary) you have to tip the hat to Newman's work with Pixar as well, and the way he has brought several of these stories to life sonically.
CJJJ | July 10, 2013 4:44 PM
1. The Incredibles
2. Toy Story 3
3. Finding Nemo
4. Wall-E
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Ratatouille
7. Toy Story
8. Toy Story 2
9. Brave
10. Cars
11. Up (Would've been good as a short film. As a 2 hour feature though it was dull and stupid)
12. A Bug's Life
Haven't seen Monsters University or Cars 2 yet.
Priya | July 10, 2013 10:21 AM
1. Toy Story - it's TOY STORY!
2. Toy Story 3 - that scene at the end, when they're about to die.
3. WALL-E - the space dance.
4. Ratatouille - everything.
5. Finding Nemo - Dory (funniest character they've created).
6. Monster's Inc. - Sully and Boo.
7. Toy Story 2 - Jessie's song.
8. The Incredibles - when Bob tells his wife he's not strong enough to survive losing his family.
9. Up - a grumpy main character that you can't help but love. And THAT scene.
10. Monsters University - the best of the modern ones.
11. Cars - didn't really like this.
12. Brave - Merida is possibly the most annoying main character they've had. Great scenery.
13. A Bug's Life - boring.
14. Cars 2 - didn't even watch this one.
James Ernst | July 9, 2013 11:33 PM
1. Toy Story
2. The Incredibles
3. Toy Story 2
4. Cars
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Ratatouille
7. Toy Story 3
8. A Bug's Life
10. Monsters University
11. Brave
12. Finding Nemo
13. Cars 2
14. Wall-E
James Ernst | July 9, 2013 11:33 PM
1. Toy Story
2. The Incredibles
3. Toy Story 2
4. Cars
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Ratatouille
7. Toy Story 3
8. A Bug's Life
10. Monsters University
11. Brave
12. Finding Nemo
13. Cars 2
14. Wall-E
James Ernst | July 9, 2013 11:33 PM
1. Toy Story
2. The Incredibles
3. Toy Story 2
4. Cars
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Ratatouille
7. Toy Story 3
8. A Bug's Life
10. Monsters University
11. Brave
12. Finding Nemo
13. Cars 2
14. Wall-E
James Ernst | July 9, 2013 11:32 PM
1. Toy Story
2. The Incredibles
3. Toy Story 2
4. Cars
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Ratatouille
7. Toy Story 3
8. A Bug's Life
10. Monsters University
11. Brave
12. Finding Nemo
13. Cars 2
14. Wall-E
James Ernst | July 9, 2013 11:32 PM
1. Toy Story
2. The Incredibles
3. Toy Story 2
4. Cars
5. Monsters Inc.
6. Ratatouille
7. Toy Story 3
8. A Bug's Life
10. Monsters University
11. Brave
12. Finding Nemo
13. Cars 2
14. Wall-E
Andy Peth | July 2, 2013 6:37 PM
1. Nemo â Great performances by Brooks and DeGeneres, fun story, excellent pace
2. Toy Story â Groundbreaking
3. The Incredibles â Long-winded but spectacularly entertainingâI drop it because they could have shortened the scenes with the dad at work
4. Cars â Excellent pacing and fun
5. Toy Story 3 â Terrific, but the burning scene was misplaced in a kid flickâI mean, seriouslyâ¦
6. Up: Charming, paradigm-shifting for kids, but long
7. Toy Story 2
8. Ratatouille: Yes, I liked this more than most people did
9. A Bug's Life
10. Monsters, Inc.: Overrated, in my view
11. Brave
12. Cars 2: Truly awful on every level
13. Wall-E: First time Iâve ever been too bored to mind a torrential downpour of preaching that much (okay, I minded)
Andy Peth | July 2, 2013 6:13 PM
Wall-E was nonstop preaching; thoroughly boring. I don't know anyone--rightwing or leftwing--who actually enjoyed it. The lead character was a charmer, but this and Cars 2 were two horrifying episodes in the rightly vaunted history of Pixar. Because of them, I didn't even bother seeing Brave.
DChute | July 1, 2013 11:16 PM
Great to see "Incredibles" at No. 1. Like almost everybody else, though, you missed the film's Libertarian moral underpinnings. It's almost a cartoon "Atlas Shrugged," railing against the supression of people with extraordinary abilities. "Saying everybody's special is the same as saying no-one is."
julie | July 1, 2013 11:45 AM
Karen | June 30, 2013 11:28 PM
Walle had so much potential but ended up being the lamest lecture Pixar ever could have done considering all the crap Apple has contributed to the environmental damage to the earth. And UP was just plain stupid. They need to stop lecturing people and start entertaining them. I totally agree with the Incredibles. Loved that movie.
Aidan | June 29, 2013 6:46 PM
Maybe I need to give Ratatouille another go (I feel it belongs much lower on the list), but The Incredibles is a big *yawn* for me. There is no way that it belongs higher than WALL-E, Up, or the Toy Story films. For that matter, I'd shove it down there in "Cars" territory. I didn't even think that it was Pixar, for some reason, and so I had an unpleasant shock at reading number one.
Jason | June 28, 2013 11:35 PM
Loved this article. Well thought-out and articulated. I disagree with the order, but that's to be expected (I'm sure everyone has their own list). The top 10 or so of these movies are all so equally wonderful that there's no way to win.
Finding Nemo definitely tops my list. Partially because of the influence it had on me, but I really do think it's an astounding movie. I still think the pacing is nearly flawless, but yeah I agree the fishing net extra climax at the end pushes it just a little long. Other than that it is a masterpiece, in my opinion. Along with Ratatouille and The Incredibles. Man. I need to watch these again.
Kyosuke | June 27, 2013 9:56 PM
I don't see how films which have received much so much acclaim (Toy Story & Finding Nemo) can be ranked under such mediocre films
Lets be real | June 26, 2013 1:22 AM
How is Ratatouille rank so high? No disrespect but seriously???? That should be near the bottom with Cars and Brave...one reason why...I practically forgot that it was even Pixar. Heck, I forgot about that movie entirely. It was the least memorable of all the Pixar movies, no one even talks about that one no more. Toy Story 3 should be 1 or 2 and Finding Nemo should be like 3 and Up or Wall-e next.
fxjcjtms | June 25, 2013 7:27 PM
How could a writer who knows how to spell things like 'aesthetic' and 'prognosticators' be unaware of the difference between 'principle' and principal'? Repeatedly.
Nicole Vacca | June 23, 2013 12:03 PM
Monster House and Chicken Little would have been lowest ranking if they were Pixar films (they're not, though they're both still Disney). I don't see how The Incredibles is #1. The plot was a little messy and it didn't have as much heart as Monsters, Inc, and Toy Story 3 (arguably the best of the trilogy, in my opinion). At least Up was in the top 3.
welles80 | June 20, 2013 11:40 AM
I've never understood the love for The Incrdibles, personally it does bugger all for me.
Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Ratatouille, Up and WALL E are all exceptional films. Toy Story 3, Finding Nemo and Toy Story 2 are almost there but not quite.
Brave, A Bugâs Life and The Incredibles have some pretty decent moments and are nowhere near âthe worstâ anything but in comparison to better Pixar they don't make the grade.
Cars /Cars 2 are soulless crap.
brace | June 20, 2013 4:51 AM
I liked Brave way more than Up - Pixar's worst in my opinion (haven't seen Cars 2)
krimzim | June 19, 2013 5:47 PM
Hey man, I like your list.
Michael | June 19, 2013 5:47 PM
Wow..toy story 1 must be in first position..
It's a really bad ranking you've made in my opinion.
Roark | June 19, 2013 4:56 PM
For me, Up and Wall-E have become rather overrated. Both fine films, but very conventional after their admittedly outstanding opening acts. Cars and Brave are rather underrated - sturdy classical storytelling with a lot going for them, but ultimately second tier Pixar, which makes them doomed to be forever slagged as disappointments.
My top five would probably be Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Toy Story, The Incredibles and Monsters Inc, but aside from Cars 2 there's no such thing as a genuinely bad or even mediocre Pixar movie. Even in decline, which they have been for a few years (Toy Story 3 excepted) they're still the closest guarantee of quality entertainment the studios have to offer.
Joel | June 19, 2013 4:52 PM
For a guy who hates Pixar so much. You sure do write about them a lot.
Neil | June 19, 2013 4:40 PM
1. Toy Story - How could it not be top? Just a brilliant, charming, inventive, complete movie
2. Toy Story 3 - Just stunning, in many ways my favourite and that incinerator scene... My God
3. Toy Story 2 - Excellent the way it moved the Toy's universe on
4. Monsters Inc - Fun, warmth and character to spare
5. Nemo - Visually stunning, decent storyline too
6. Wall-E - First half great, second half, not so much
7. Cars - Good fun. Could be my kid's love of it that's got it higher up the list than it should be
8. The Incredibles - never really 'got' what people raved about with this. Was ok, but...
9. Brave - Could've been great, but not as bad as people made out
10. A Bug's Life - Mostly meh, but had its moments
11. Up - One for the critics. Actually a really dull film
12. Ratatouille - Missed its mark... Whatever it's mark was supposed to be
13. Cars 2 - A blatant cash in
14. Monsters U - haven't seen it so can't comment
Mike | June 19, 2013 4:37 PM
Pretty Decent List.
Toomaui | June 19, 2013 3:55 PM
Wow, am surprised how much of this list I disagree with.
Iâm with you on the Incredibles, but after that, Iâm not so sure. I donât rate Ratatouille at all â would see it as one of the worst. Not funny, twee, sentimental and didactic.
My top five would be something like:
1. The Incredibles
2. Finding Nemo
3. Toy Story 2
4. Up
5. Toy Story
Then again, Iâm not particularly a Pixar fanatic. I still miss hand-drawn animation... C'est la vie
Nathan Duke | June 19, 2013 3:38 PM
All in all, not a bad list, although I don't really agree with the ranking of the top five.
I'd go: 5. Toy Story 4. Finding Nemo 3. Ratatouille 2. Up 1. Wall-E
starway2001 | June 19, 2013 3:23 PM
My son's favorite Pixar movies are in the reverse order of this list (with the exception of Incredibles being much higher). I'm supposing our tastes are not as sophisticated as the author's.
James | June 19, 2013 3:13 PM
Great article! I only have one question... I can't quite follow this portion of the Ratatouille segment: "it was going to be the first film released outside of its distribution pact with Disney (which explains its international setting)." The film was released normally by Disney both in the US and overseas, Pixar didn't release it on their own as the wording seems to suggest.
Captain Celluloid | June 19, 2013 3:04 PM
I would suggest that your premise, or at least your headline, is misleading at best and flawed at worst.
The are no WORST Pixar films . . . . there are some that are not as wonderful as
My issue is not with your ranking the films.
My strong issue is your use of the use of the word WORST which strongly implies that some are TOTALLY AND WITHOUT ANY MERIT BAD and that is not the case with Pixar films . . . .
Pixar in particular and with most films in general.
If I were your editor I would write "headline editorializes story in a negative spin; allow reader to draw their own conclusions. Is this a story or an opinion piece. Label clearly if it it is opinion of the writer" I would also note that FROM BAD TO WORST LISTS and TOP TEN WORST MOVIES EVER LISTS are weak ideas in general.


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Twitter Pressed To Release Diversity Data
July 22, 2014 by mphillips
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U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson is urging Twitter to release its employee diversity information, which its Silicon Valley peers such as Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Facebook have already done.
The Rainbow Push Coalition, founded by Jackson, has also asked Twitter to signal its commitment to inclusion by hosting a public community forum to address the company's plan to recruit and retain more African American talent.
The coalition and black empowerment group, ColorOfChange.org, plans to launch a Twitter-based campaign to challenge the company, the coalition said in a statement late last week.
On Friday at the Netroots Nation conference in Detroit, ColorofChange will lead a "Black Twitter" plenary session where activists will push out the petition campaign over Twitter and other social media.
Tech companies have been under pressure to release employee diversity data since Jackson took up the campaign to highlight the underrepresentation of African-Americans in Silicon Valley companies, starting with a delegation to Hewlett-Packard's annual meeting of shareholders.
"….Twitter has remained silent, resisting and refusing to publicly disclose its EEO-1 workforce diversity/inclusion data," according to the joint petition by the coalition and ColorOfChange.org.
The diversity reports are typically filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and companies are not required to make the information public.
Twitter has not commented on the matter.
Dominos Pizza Customers Data Stolen, Threatened With Exposure
June 18, 2014 by mphillips
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Cybercriminals have stolen data on more than 600,000 Dominos Pizza Inc customers in Belgium and France, the pizza delivery company said, and an anonymous Twitter user threatened to make the data public unless the company pays a cash ransom.
Customer names, delivery addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and passwords were taken from a server used in an online ordering system that the company is in the process of replacing, Dominos spokesman Chris Brandon said.
He said he did not know if the stolen passwords had been encrypted.
A Tweet directed at Domino's customers through an account of somebody listed as "Rex Mundi" said hackers would publish the customer data on the Internet unless the company pays 30,000 euros ($40,800), according to an article in The Telegraph.
The Rex Mundi account was later suspended.
Brandon said he was not familiar with the ransom demands, but that the company would not be making any such payment.
Domino's Vice President of Communications Tim McIntyre said the hacking was "isolated" to independent franchise markets of Belgium and France, where the company's online ordering system did not collect credit card orders, so no financial data had been taken.
"This does not affect any market outside of France and Belgium," he said via email. "The site has been secured."
Domino's has some 11,000 stores worldwide, including 229 in France, 24 in Belgium and about 5,000 in the United States.
Twitter User Base To Grow By 24% This Year
May 28, 2014 by mphillips
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Twitter users are expected to increase by 24.4% this year to over 227 million with double-digit growth expected to continue through 2018 when the number of users will be nearly 400 million, according to a report.
The US will continue to be the country with the largest number of individual Twitter users through 2018, according to an eMarketer report . But its share of users, currently at 20%, will drop over the years and give Twitter the opportunity to grow its advertising revenue from outside the U.S.
The Asia-Pacific region increased its share of the number of Twitter users to 30.5% in 2013 in comparison to 26% for second-place North America. High growth countries in Asia-Pacific were Indonesia and India with 76.3% and 68.8% growth, respectively.
The research firm said its estimates are based on how many individual users log in or access Twitter each month within the calendar year. It said its figure differs from Twitter's reported figure for users because it uses consumer survey data to remove business accounts, multiple accounts for individual users and other sources of potential double-counting.
Twitter reported average monthly active users (MAUs) were 241 million as of Dec. 31, which increased to 255 million at the end of the first quarter.
The figure for Asia-Pacific does not include China which blocks Twitter, although users still access the social networking site using virtual private networks.
By 2018, the share of the Asia-Pacific region is forecast to reach 40.1%, eMarketer said.
India and Indonesia are forecast to have the third and fourth-largest base of Twitter users in the world in 2014, with about 18 million and 15 million users, respectively.
The popularity of Twitter and other social media in India was reflected in the extensive use of these tools during the recently concluded federal elections in the country. The new prime minister Narendra Modi uses Twitter and Facebook frequently to communicate to literate users and has over 4.4 million followers on Twitter.
Social Media Titan Twitter Still Unprofitable
May 1, 2014 by mphillips
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Twitter has reported impressive sales figures for the first quarter, but its net loss grew substantially compared to last year.
Total revenue for the period ended March 31 was roughly $250 million, Twitter stated, more than double the $114 million recorded for the same period in 2013. Twitter's sales topped analysts' consensus estimate of $241 million, as polled by Thomson Reuters.
"We had a very strong first quarter," said Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in the company's announcement. "Revenue growth accelerated on a year over year basis fueled by increased engagement and user growth."
However, Twitter hasn't managed to turn a profit since it became a public company. The company reported a net loss of more than $132 million for the quarter, nearly quintupling the loss of roughly $27 million reported for the year-ago period.
The company's earnings per share loss was $0.23, a tad worse than a loss of $0.21 reported last year. On a pro forma basis, excluding share-based compensation and other adjustments, Twitter broke even, beating analysts' expectations of a loss of $0.03 per share.
Twitter's stock was down to $38.30 in after hours trading, down considerably from its $42.62 Tuesday close.
Twitter, like Google and Facebook, makes the bulk of its money from advertising — $226 million for the quarter, up 125 percent. The lion's share of its advertising — 80 percent in the first quarter — comes from mobile.
To continue growing its ad revenue, Twitter needs to attract more users and increase the time they spend using the service. As a public company, Twitter is under pressure to make its service more accessible to a mainstream audience.
The company in recent months has tried to address this, partly through cosmetic changes like redesigning user profile pages and making photos more prominent in people's streams.
Twitter is making progress in this area, but not very rapidly. Compared to the same period last year, Twitter grew its monthly active users by 25 percent, to 255 million. But compared to the fourth quarter of 2013, Twitter grew its monthly active users sequentially by less than 6 percent.
On mobile, Twitter now has 198 million monthly active users — a 31 percent increase, the company said.
Twitter Unveils Redesign Of User Profile Pages
April 10, 2014 by mphillips
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Twitter Inc has revealed a redesign of its user profile pages, the latest in a series of steps promised by the company to bring new users to the seven-year-old service.
In response to an all-time low in user growth figures during the recent quarter, Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo informed worried Wall Street analysts that the company would make a number of changes to freshen up the service.
The redesign, while mostly cosmetic, hinted at what Costolo described in February as a willingness to experiment with new ways to organize content. Users can now "pin" a tweet to stay at the top of their feed, a rare instance of Twitter departing from the continuously rolling format that has defined the service.
Tweets that have received more re-tweets or replies will also appear slightly larger to spur more user engagement.
The new layout, which will be available to a small group of users initially, will be widely deployed to Twitter's 241 million users in the coming weeks, the company said.
Twitter reported higher-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue on February 6, but investors focused on user growth of just 3.8 percent, the lowest rate of quarter-on-quarter growth since Twitter began disclosing user figures. The San Francisco-based company went public in November.
In recent weeks, Twitter has also reportedly been testing a number of new advertising units, such as ads that include download links for mobile apps.
As part of Tuesday's refresh, Twitter said users will also be allowed to select a large banner picture to display across the top of their profile page, as well as a much larger profile picture, two features that resemble another social network familiar to most of the world's Internet users: Facebook.
Will Google's Chrome Anti-Hijacking API Work?
Google has targeted web browser settings hijacking in its latest update to Chrome for Windows.
On the Chromium blog, Google engineering director Erik Kay announced an extension settings API designed to ensure that users have notice and control over any settings changes made to their web browsers.
As a result, the only way extensions will be able to make changes to browser settings such as the default search engine and start page will be through this API.
Bargain hungry consumers are often unaware that freeware programs often bundle add-on programs for which developers receive payment but can create irritating, rather than malicious, changes to user settings.
Although there is usually consent sought at installation, quite often it is ignored or not understood, and the people who miss the warnings are generally the same ones who find it hard to change the settings back.
Kay said that the API is available in the Chromium developer channel, with a rollout to the stable channel set for May.
The Chromium stable channel has been updated to version 33.0.1750.149. The main change is an update to the embedded Flash Player for Windows, which is now version 18.104.22.168.
There are seven new security fixes, most of which were user submitted via the open source Fast Memory Detector Address Sanitizer.
Although the user community and Chrome team continue to proactively protect the Chromium project, third party extensions can still cause problems, with several already having been removed from the Chrome Store this year.
MS Maps New York Complaints With Bing?
March 12, 2014 by Michael
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Microsoft has decided to map the opinions on New Yorkers and pin their gripes to their locations.
The Redmond firm's researchers have developed Herehere, a complaint cataloguer, and launched it on the hardboiled streets of New York, New York. The firm reckoned that over time it will build up a view of the community.
Microsoft said that "hyperlocal engagement" would "encourage civic response". We think that it might put people off certain areas and funnel others to other locations. Microsoft has provided an image to suggest how this manifests itself. We learn that somewhere has "no asbestos issues" somewhere else does not feel safe, and another location has bad traffic.
"Herehere NYC introduces daily neighbourhood engagement with a light touch," said Kati London, head of the Herehere project.
"It takes neighborhood-specific public data, and it enables the neighbourhoods to communicate how they're doing-expressed through text and cartoonlike icons.
"People can receive the information via a daily email digest, neighborhood-specific Twitter feeds, or status updates on an online map. We want to understand how it changes or impacts the way people relate to their community when they can interact with data in this way.
"Think of it as a meta-status update for the day – a simplification of issues in your neighbourhood compressed into a text that you might get from a friend," added London.
There are 42 New York City locations covered, and the firm thinks that it will boil down the mood of the city into a digestible format with a friendly, occasionally ratlike, face. The data is culled from the 311 phone number in New York City, which is the state's contact number for non-emergency communications.
"The idea is that we are inundated with all kinds of data in our lives, and it's overwhelming. Characterisation helps bring immediacy and a human scale to information," said London.
"When the Lower East Side says it's totally cool with a few vermin complaints, we're giving a human voice to the neighborhood which, hopefully, will stimulate conversations about issues."
Will King's (Candy Krush Saga) IPO Be A Success?
Over 90 million people play Candy Crush Saga every day. Say whatever you like about London- based social game developer King, but its headline game is an unquestionable success. Like many games (most games, perhaps) it iterates upon previously existing formulae rather than being a breakthrough, unseen innovation. Like many games, the real DNA of its success can only be analysed honestly if we first admit that one of the dominant genes involved was luck. Still; 90 million players. About 1.3 per cent of the entire population of the planet try to clear candies and jellies at least once a day. Whether you consider that to be a depressing reflection of the state of humanity or not is entirely subjective; whether you consider it to be a remarkable business success is not. King's got a touch of magic in its sweet jar.
Now King wants to convert that magic into cold, hard cash, so it's going to float on the New York Stock Exchange. It's proposing an initial public offering valued at $500 million, but given that its net income last year was $568 million (on revenues of $1.9 billion), everyone involved will clearly be hoping to make a killing off an early spike in share value.
When any company announces an IPO, it's reasonable to ask why it's happening. There are two ways for an entrepreneur to "exit", cashing in his or her chips on the company that's been built. One is by being acquired by a bigger firm (like the recent purchase of a major stake in Supercell by Puzzle & Dragons publisher GungHo). The other is an IPO. In both cases, there are two clear reasons for cashing in – the first one, which everyone always claims to be pursuing, is to raise more money to facilitate further growth and make your company bigger and better. The second is shadier but not uncommon. You reckon you've taken the business as far as you can – organic growth is looking rocky from here, maybe you sense a change in the market or an oncoming headwind, and you want to grab as much cash as you can while the going is good, before your valuation starts to heavily decline.
"Take the money and run" isn't an uncommon reason for a sale or an IPO, although none of the parties involved would ever be so gauche as to admit to such a thing. Still, the logic underwriting such a thing is cold and undeniable. If you can sense that your company is facing rocky ground and its valuation has likely peaked, you want to make sure you get as much of a return on your holdings as possible before they become devalued. Laws and rules force lots of disclosure of financial data, of course, so you can't hide a decline that's already started – but if your instinct says next year won't be as good as last year, now's the right time to sell, and "instinct" doesn't appear on SEC-mandated documents.
Is King taking the money and running? Yes, I think they are. I think this IPO is actually a little late – it's going to occur just as King is on a downslope – but it's far better timed than the easiest comparison, Zynga. Zynga launched on the stock exchange far too late, after it had already become obvious that the company was completely hobbled by the rapid transition from Facebook to smartphones in social gaming. Its IPO was a flop from an investor's perspective, although plenty of people still made a lot of money from it – it certainly made more money than it would have if they'd waited around until the depths of the company's troubles became apparent. On its current timeline, King will be IPOing while it's still within touching distance of Candy Crush Saga's peak.
"Is King taking the money and running? Yes, I think they are"
I foresee two problems, both of which ought to ring huge alarm bells for investors interested in the company. The first is that Candy Crush Saga's peak is just that – a monolithic, dramatic peak climbing up out of a landscape of foothills and gentle valleys. There are no other peaks in sight. King's other games do "okay", but nearly 80% of its revenue comes from Candy Crush Saga, whose 90 million daily users figure is six times greater than the daily users figure for the firm's second-place game, Pet Rescue Saga. There is nothing on the horizon which might replace Candy Crush Saga; once you start descending from that peak, the danger is that you end up back in the foothills with no more peaks to ascend. There's simply no evidence, let alone proof, that King is capable of recreating the lightning-strike success of Candy Crush Saga. Bluntly, I don't think King believes it can manage that either – because if the firm and its investors genuinely believed that they could repeat the success of Candy Crush, they would IPO after doing so, knowing that a company with a proven ability to turn out enormous hits is vastly, vastly more valuable than a company with one lucky strike and a string of also-rans to its name.
The second problem is Zynga itself. The stock market has already had one market-leading social game company perform absolutely dismally after flotation. Investors now know that this sector, while it's exciting and interesting and extremely profitable, is also insanely volatile, completely hit- driven and largely subject to the rapidly changing whims of technology. On the surface, the F2P model is far more investor-friendly than the old-fashioned boxed game model, since you actually get a steady revenue stream from your products rather than a single burst of revenue after a couple of years of expensive development. In practice, though, you still need to keep turning out hit titles in order to ensure revenue growth (which is all the stock market gives a damn about). Few studios have shown any capacity for doing that – there are laudable exceptions like Supercell and Nimblebit, but most mobile gaming studios are still dining out on single successes. King has Candy Crush Saga; Rovio has Angry Birds; GungHo has Puzzle & Dragons. None of these companies have managed to create another game as popular as the one that made them famous – lacking a track record, each of them can fairly be considered a one-hit wonder until proven otherwise.
What about recent controversies around King? The company's aggressive approach to trademarks, its reputed cloning of games and so on have done nothing to endear it to the gaming world and cultivated an atmosphere of negativity around the company. I would caution against reading too much into the likely impact of such stories on an IPO, though. Investors, bluntly, don't really care if a company stands accused of not being terribly innovative, as long as the results are good. They certainly couldn't care less about trademark spats with independent developers, I fear. Such issues are important and relevant to those directly involved, but of no consequence to the IPO prospects of a company like King.
What they do, however, is set mood music around the firm. Being seen as a bit ruthless is no bad thing, but I suspect that investors burned by Zynga will be quick to note the parallels between the sort of behaviour of which King stands accused, and the sort of behaviour in which Zynga engaged. The two companies are, in my mind, very similar both in culture and in approach. Neither was founded out of any attachment to games as a medium, a culture or an artform; both are simply entrepreneurial vehicles to exploit a potential market, and as such, it's to be expected that both would struggle to adapt and succeed at points where they encounter obstacles that can only be surmounted by creativity rather than by management bullet points or business model refinement.
That's not entirely a criticism, by the way; in a capitalist economy, there's no sin to creating a business just to exploit a gap in the market. If the market in question happens to be a creative medium, one has to expect significant blowback to this approach. Moreover, there's a limited lifespan to such a strategy – a company in a creative sector which is not founded on creative principles cannot expect to significantly outlive the market conditions it was originally designed to exploit.
In summary, I find it hard to view King's IPO as anything more than Zynga 2.0. It is better-timed, certainly, but the companies involved are similar enterprises facing similar challenges – and thus far, demonstrating a similar lack of capacity to overcome them. Zynga is much, much further down the slope from its peak than King, so of course there remains a reasonable possibility that King can surprise us all with a second title on the scale of Candy Crush – and by doing so, establish itself as a genuine leading light of this new market. For all the negativity poured upon the company of late, I honestly hope King can make lightning strike twice for itself. I don't like Candy Crush Saga personally, but that's a subjective view – objectively, I cannot find a trace of the supposed immorality, grasping and nastiness of which the game regularly stands accused, and can't help but recall all the awful stuff of which Flappy Bird also stood wrongly accused when it dared to be a break-out mobile gaming success. King faces problems down the line and I question whether it represents a good investment opportunity for anyone – but should it overcome those issues and prove itself capable of the creativity required to replicate its Candy Crush success, it would be churlish to call that anything other than a fresh triumph for UK game development. Fingers crossed that it happens.
BlackBerry Not Happy With T-Mobile's Latest Promo
BlackBerry Ltd Chief Executive John Chen directed pointed words at T-Mobile US Inc earlier this week, calling ill-conceived a promotion run by the company that encourages customers using BlackBerry smartphones to upgrade to iPhones.
T-Mobile US, which is majority owned by Deutsche Telekom AG, sent out emails to some of its customers last week, pitching free iPhone 5s and touting the promotion as a, "great offer for BlackBerry customers."
That sparked a brouhaha in social media forums after some of the telecommunications company's loyal BlackBerry customers reacted angrily to the offer, which they perceived as a slight.
The backlash prompted T-Mobile US Chief Executive John Legere to respond publicly. In a Twitter posting on Sunday, Legere said T-Mobile would continue to support BlackBerry smartphones and he assured BlackBerry users they do not have to give up their devices or "loyalty."
In a blog post on Tuesday, BlackBerry CEO Chen slammed the T-Mobile US offer as a, "clearly inappropriate and ill-conceived marketing promotion," and he thanked BlackBerry users for their loyalty to the company.
"Your partnership with our brand is appreciated by all of us at BlackBerry, and draws a sharp contrast with the behavior of our longtime business partner," Chen said in the posting, noting that T-Mobile had not discussed its promotion with BlackBerry.
T-Mobile US later said it is happy to work with BlackBerry and will by Friday offer speedy and free shipping of BlackBerry devices to T-Mobile customers who order them.
BlackBerry, a one-time pioneer in the smartphone industry, has been struggling to claw back market share lost to Apple Inc's iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy devices, and other smartphones powered by Google Inc's Android operating system.
The Waterloo, Ontario-based company's new line of BlackBerry 10 devices has so far failed to win back market share, and Chen is attempting to reshape the company and focus less on the handset segment, and more on the company's services business.
Chen has stressed, however, that the handset business remains a core component for BlackBerry as the company attempts to engineer a turnaround.
Chen called on T-Mobile US to "find a way forward that allows us to serve our shared customers once again."
Mac Book Ship Date Slips Again
Apple continued to experience problems meeting demand for its totally redesigned Mac Pro desktop computer, with ship dates extending into April.
Now shipping estimates for new orders stretched into April in several foreign markets, including China, France, Germany, Japan, and the U.K., as first reported by MacGeneration, which is based in France. Soon after, Apple's U.S. and Canadian online stores followed suit, showing April as the estimated ship date.
Although the Mac Pro — a distinctive-looking black cylinder that's 10 inches tall and about 7 inches in diameter — went on sale Dec. 19, it almost immediately slipped into back order. The February estimate was later pushed into March before today's change to April.
The pricey computer starts at $2,999 for the low-end stock configuration and can be tricked out to a top price of $9,599.
At least one analyst predicted that the Mac Pro, while catering to the line's traditional power users, creative professionals and engineers, would also become a status symbol of sorts for those with the wherewithal to buy one.
The shipping delays continue to hint at low production volumes at the new Apple factory in Austin, Texas, where the computer is assembled. Apple has touted the Mac Pro's built-in-the-U.S.A. trait, including a rare tweet by CEO Tim Cook at the machine's launch.
Shortages of the Mac Pro will not materially affect Apple's bottom line, as the Mac division accounted for just 11% of the company's revenue for the December quarter. The Mac Pro, while expensive, will make up only a fraction of the unit sales of the line overall, which last quarter reached 4.8 million, the majority of those notebooks from the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro families.
But the extended shortages mean that the revenue the Mac Pro produces is being pushed from the current quarter into the calendar's second. They also are reminiscent of the fiasco Apple created in late 2012 and early 2013, when it announced a redesigned iMac without an inventory even as it pulled the older models from its stores.
The shortages also spurred profit takers to list their new Mac Pro systems on eBay at prices significantly higher than list.
Mac Pro prices on the auction and sales website today were as high as $6,250 for a configuration that Apple sells for $3,999, a 56% markup. Another of the several listings asked $4,499 for a system that runs $2,999 from Apple, a 50% profit for the seller.
Spammers Purchase Chrome Extensions Convert Them Into Adware
January 21, 2014 by mphillips
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Changes in Google Chrome extension ownership can expose thousands of users to aggressive advertising as well as other threats, two extension developers have recently discovered.
At least two Chrome extensions recently sold by their original developers were updated to inject ads and affiliate links into legitimate websites opened in users' browsers.
The issue first came to light last week when the developer of the "Add to Feedly" extension, a technology blogger named Amit Agarwal, reported that after selling his extension late last year to a third-party, it got transformed into adware. The extension had over 30,000 users when it was sold.
A second developer, Roman Skabichevsky, confirmed on Monday that his Chrome extension called "Tweet This Page" suffered a similar fate after he sold it at the end of November.
Skabichevsky accepted an offer to sell the simple extension for $500 because he didn't have time to improve it anymore.
"A woman named Amanda who contacted me said they wanted the extension 'for further development'," Skabichevsky said via email. It was weird because the extension's code is open sourced so anyone can work on it, "but I sold it anyway, thinking it would be better for the world. I was so wrong!"
Agarwal's story is similar. He sold his extension for a four-figure sum after being contacted by a woman.
"A month later, the new owners of the Feedly extension pushed an update to the Chrome store," he said Thursday in a blog post. "No, the update didn't bring any new features to the table nor contained any bug fixes. Instead, they incorporated advertising into the extension."
"These aren't regular banner ads that you see on web pages, these are invisible ads that work the background and replace links on every website that you visit into affiliate links," Agarwal said. "In simple English, if the extension is activated in Chrome, it will inject adware into all web pages."
Converting a trusted and popular extension into an aggressive advertising tool is more efficient for adware pushers than creating an extension from scratch and building a large user base they can later target, because it brings a quicker and most likely bigger return on investment.
The "Add to Feedly" and "Tweet This Page" extensions have been removed from the Chrome Web Store this weekend, supposedly by Google. However, the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It's not clear if any other extensions from the Chrome Web Store were resold and exhibit the same behavior.
Hackers Targets Skype Social Media Accounts
January 3, 2014 by mphillips
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Skype said its social media properties were targeted, with a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army taking credit for the hacks.
"You may have noticed our social media properties were targeted today," Skype said in a Twitter post late Wednesday. "No user info was compromised. We're sorry for the inconvenience."
Skype's Twitter account, blog and Facebook page appeared to have been attacked by the SEA, a group that supports the Syrian government, according to reports. The Skype blog was still inaccessible late Wednesday and redirected users to the Skype home page.
The SEA reproduced in a Twitter message a copy of what appeared to be its message using the Skype account on Twitter. The message read: "Don't use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook),They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments.More details soon #SEA". It did not figure by late Wednesday on Skype's Twitter feed.
SEA later posted on Twitter contact information purportedly of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, stating: You can thank Microsoft for monitoring your accounts/emails using this details.
The attack on Skype's social media accounts appears to be linked to disclosures through newspapers by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that Internet companies allegedly provide the agency real-time access to content on their servers for surveillance purposes.
The SEA has targeted previously many high-profile websites and Twitter accounts. In August, an attack purportedly by SEA on Melbourne IT, an Australian domain registrar, affected the websites of The New York Times, Twitter and other top companies.
Facebook Is Still The Dominant Social Network, Others Gaining
January 2, 2014 by mphillips
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Facebook is still the most popular social networking destination among U.S. adults online, but users are also visiting other websites for their daily social fix.
Social networks are used by 73 percent of online adults in the U.S., according to a study released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The study was based on 1,445 adult Internet users interviewed from August 7 to Sept. 16 this year.
The full survey sample totaled 1,801 adults over age 18. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.9.
Facebook was the dominant social networking site, boasting an audience of 71 percent of online U.S. adults, growing from 67 percent late last year.
While Facebook was a universal favorite, some 42 percent of online adults used multiple social networking sites, the study said. Pinterest attracted women, Twitter and Instagram were heavily used by young adults, African Americans and city dwellers, and LinkedIn was favored by college graduates, older users and high-income households.
Usage of all Facebook alternatives grew, according to the survey. LinkedIn was used by 22 percent of U.S. adults online, Pinterest by 21 percent, Twitter by 18 percent and Instagram by 17 percent.
The engagement levels varied, with 63 percent of Facebook users visiting the website at least once a day, and 40 percent visiting multiple times. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, had 57 percent of users visiting once a day and 35 percent logging in multiple times. Around 46 percent of Twitter users visited at least once, and 29 percent multiple times.
Once viewed as a social networking platform for college students, Facebook is now attracting a larger number of Internet users aged 65 or more, according to the survey. Facebook is used by around 45 percent of U.S. Internet users aged 65 or more, growing from 35 percent late last year.
Twitter and Instagram are becoming more popular among African Americans and users aged 18 to 29. Around 34 percent of African American Internet users in the U.S. adopted Instagram, growing from 23 percent last year. The site was used by 37 percent of users aged between 18 and 29, growing from 28 percent in the comparable period last year.
The Pew survey does not include information related to usage of sites such as Google+, Tumblr, Reddit and Vine.
Reddit In Pursuit Of Profits
December 31, 2013 by mphillips
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Social news hub Reddit enjoyed a major get when it interviewed Barack Obama last year. The big get for 2013 was reaching 90 million unique visitors a month, according to the company, on par with the likes of eBay. This season, even Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates joined its Secret Santa gift exchange.
Now, the self-dubbed "Front Page of the Internet" is going for a milestone it has been trying to reach since its founding in 2005: profitability.
After years of experimenting with paid subscriptions and display advertising, Reddit, with just 28 employees, has begun pouring resources into building an electronic bazaar.
Company executives say they increasingly believe such a venue is the answer to their long search for reliable revenue, complicated in part by their fans' mistrust of advertising.
If Reddit Gifts, as the burgeoning bazaar is known, brings sustainable profitability, it would mark a turning point for an outfit that has exerted an outsized and sometimes controversial influence on Internet culture yet languished financially.
Reddit estimates over 250,000 items have been purchased over the holiday, mostly as part of the 50 or so mostly geek-oriented Secret Santa gift exchanges – where zombie- or fantasy-themed presents, say, change hands – that users have created.
Although Reddit won't disclose details about how much money it has made from Reddit Gifts or its overall financial performance, it takes a 15 to 20 percent cut of every purchase.
Usually priced between $10 and $25, the goods reflect Reddit's young and geeky user base, from collages of cats in steampunk apparel to coffee mugs branded by Imgur.com, a repository of funny Web pictures, to an entire category dedicated to bacon-related products. More than 250 merchants supply gifts curated and "up-voted" by the community, much as articles and links are elevated on the Reddit site itself.
The gift exchange made headlines this month after Gates signed up and surprised a Reddit user by sending her a travel book and a stuffed cow, symbol of the charity he donated to in her name.
The company, which is hoping to position itself as a bona fide shopping destination year-round, estimates that only 14 percent of its marketplace revenue comes from the Christmas-season gift exchange programs.
Yet those sales alone could put Reddit firmly in the black, said Dan McComas, the head of Reddit Gifts. He added that the company may choose to reinvest funds in e-commerce customer service and infrastructure.
Chief Executive Yishan Wong, a former Facebook executive, said Reddit was "kind of" breaking even and denied that pressure was mounting on his team to turn a profit.
Can't Make It To Times Square? Ring In New Year Remotely
Party goers who can't make it to New York's Times Square to celebrate New Year's Eve can download an app to make sure they see the ball drop.
More than a million people from around the world flock to the famous area in midtown Manhattan which hosts one of the world's largest New Year's Eve celebrations. Another billion across the globe tune in on their televisions.
"It's one moment where 100 million Americans are all doing the same thing at the same time. They're all counting down to the same time thing," said Jeff Straus, president of New York City-based Countdown Entertainment, which organizes the annual event.
With the Times Square Ball app for iPhone and Android, people not near a television can tune in to the festivities from their smartphones. The app features a live six-hour webcast that will be available on New Year's Eve, with behind-the-scenes interviews, musical performances, countdowns and the fall of the Times Square Ball.
"We created the app because there's a whole other audience that can't be near their televisions or are overseas, but still want to be part of it and count down those final seconds with us," said Straus.
The app will include tweets from the Times Square Ball, which will be tweeting news and photos of the event from its perch high above the crowds.
"The ball's history goes back to 1907 when we had the first ball drop. It was basically a 5-foot (1.5-meter) ball of iron and wood with 100 125-watt light bulbs in it, which was the latest in lighting technology," said Straus.
It has been re-designed seven times since then. Over the years, computer controls and other features like strobe lights have been added.
The ball, which has been dropped every year since 1907 except for 1942 and 1943, is now over 12 feet in diameter, weighs nearly 6 tons and is adorned with over 32,000 LED lights in varied colors, according to the Times Square Alliance, white works to improve and promote the area.
The free app also has a countdown that can be configured to different time zones and is available worldwide.
People who want to join in on the fireworks on New Year's Eve in the London can download the free London New Year's Eve fireworks app for iPhone and Android created by the UK-based company Vodafone.
The app overlays the fireworks on display on the banks of the River Thames onto the smartphone camera. Its app will be released on December 30 at midnight.


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Chieftains fall to South HavenPublished 8:55am Wednesday, September 30, 2009
SOUTH HAVEN – The Dowagiac cross country teams were swept by host South Haven on Tuesday afternoon in a Wolverine Conference meet.
In the boys' race, Dowagiac grabbed two of the top three positions, but fell to the Rams 23-38.
Mark Cornett of South Haven was the overall winner with a time of 17:58.
Dowagiac's Kasey Proshwitz and Chris Gantt finished second and third respectively with times of 18:08 and 18:11.
"Kasey and Chris finally put together a nice race on the same day," Dowagiac coach Ken Jordan said. "We knew the rest of our boys would need to run in the 21s to have a shot and it just didn't happen."
Matt Ernzen ran 11th with a time of 22:50, while Ryne Wilming was 12th (22:51), Brandon Wilson 13th (23:18), Tony Brooks 15th (23:45), Tyler Cross 16th (23:47) and Ryan Daly 17th (23:49).
The Dowagiac girls' team was defeated by the Lady Rams 15-48.
Grace Carwel of South Haven was the overall winner with a time of 20:50.
The Chieftains' Kelsey Cleveland grabbed the top finish for Dowagiac as she was seventh wtih a time of 26:25.
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The Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival started in 1999, and since then the mayhem has moved from the lanes to a giant parking lot just off of Fremont street in downtown Las Vegas. Tournaments and cash prizes are still part of the event, but today, the offerings on stage are the main draw, attracting thousands of hardcore music fans from around the country.
If EDC is the definitive dance music hap in Sin City, Punk Rock Bowling is a formidable match when it comes to a different kind of loud music. The term "banger" comes from punk after all! Here are the bands who bowled us over this year:
Free pool parties were a big part of the fest this year and this shindig from Swinghouse Studios kicked things off with an all-star extravaganza on the roof of the Plaza Hotel. James Williamson (The Stooges), Capt. Sensible & Pinch (The Damned), Tony Adolescent (The Adolescents), DH Peligro (Dead Kennedys), Kevin Seconds (Seven Seconds), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks), and Charlie Paulson (Goldfinger/Black President) took the stage together to play music from each of their respective bands. They were audacious and pretty clean, but we can't say the same for the swimming pool. Hotel pools are questionable anyway, but at a beer-drenched punk party? Um, you don't want to know.
This was one of the best performances on the festival grounds, The Damned performed a mix of hits and lesser known numbers for a rabid crowd on Saturday night. They have always incorporated style and flair into their dark persona, and are a rare band who seem to get cockier with age.


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Park, Tailgate and Cruise
Celebrate Chicago football at the best tailgate party in Chicago! For every home regular and pre-season Chicago Bears games, avoid Soldier Field traffic hassles and party at Harry's. For Sunday noon home games, the tailgate party starts at 9 a.m. with a selection of brunch items and Harry's Build-Your-Own Bloody Mary Bar. Guests can then board the Shoreline Water Taxi to take a 15-minute scenic cruise to Museum Campus for the game. Ground transportation will be provided during colder weather. Customers of Harry Caray's Navy Pier will receive a discounted parking rate of $13 in the Navy Pier Parking Garages located at 600 E. Grand Avenue during all home game days with validation (restrictions may apply, visit www.harrycarays.com for full details). Visit www.harrycarays.com for more information.
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Shoreline Sightseeing Oktoberfest Cruise
Enjoy this evening Oktoberfest celebration two-hour cruise featuring German dinner from Chicago's famed Paulina Market, free drink in souvenir mug, live German music and dancing. Must be 21 to attend; cash bar is available. Cruise departs from Polk Bros Park at Navy Pier. Tickets are $49. Visit www.shorelinesightseeing.com/special-events for details or call 312-222-9328.
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