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Grockit Raises Series B

By posted May 30, 2008

We recently raised our Series B financing. We couldn’t be more excited about the firms we are working with. The press release is below. 

Grockit, a San Francisco Learning 2.0 Start-Up has raised its Series B financing. Integral Capital Partners lead the $8M round with Benchmark Capital, who lead their Series A, participating as well. Grockit is creating a MMOLG (Massively Multi Player Online Learning Game) where people can connect to learn from each other. The company was founded by Farbood Nivi, a long time teacher, and Michael Buffington, a well known Rails developer. Grockit will use the latest financing to expand their development team and they plan to launch their first product this fall.

You can also check out our post on TechCrunch.

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Should The Basketball Score Board Delay Before Updating?

By posted May 21, 2008

Growing up, the score at the bottom of the screen of a Basketball game would update about a second or so after you looked down at it. And, as you didn’t look down until you saw what looked like a legitimate basket, there was a flow.

1. Notice the basket
2. Look down to bottom of screen
3. Watch the score change

Lately, probably because of advances in technology, the score often updates before you look down. You can be left staring and waiting and sometimes not really knowing whether the current score is the updated score or the pre-basket score. You can end up staring longer than you would had the score been delayed a second, allowing you to look down.

So, from a UI perspective, should there be a 1 second delay in the update of the score on the screen? Would one test this? How?

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