After 6+ years in university (undergrad + graduate + research), I have decided to put aside my interests in science and to pursue a career in the web (enough academia bureaucracy)
I do iPhone & web development, and quite capable with design. I would prefer to stay in Vancouver and work remotely, but also open to other options.
Thanks,
Ivan
Since the logical leap to be made - considering this is a portfolio post on HN - was "surely, there must be more", I quickly discovered a lot of visual click fun to be had. Considering my typical click-in-click-out viewing patterns, the fact that your site inspired me to spend .6 seconds to learn to use it and then to also stick around to take it in speaks volumes about your creative presentation (IMHO).
Good work, and good luck.
http://wikipediagame.posterous.com/
I don't see your name anywhere on either of those pages.
Do you plan to keep ripping off websites/web apps and converting them to iPhone apps in order to boost your portfolio?
Edit: I didn't link his version because I didn't want to add fuel to the fire.
Edit2: Wiki Game creator says it's cool, then I have nothing to be annoyed about. S'all good. :)
I did not rip off The Wiki Game, at least wasn't intent to do so.
In The Wiki Game, problems are randomly generated.
In 3 Degree of Wikipedia (my app), they are created by other players, and limited to 3 degrees only, so each connection puzzle can actually encapsulate a concept that's meaningful and worth learning. Besides, all puzzles are dynamically ranked to filter out the bad ones (like HN).
I intent to make it an app for learning.
Hope this answers your questions.
Ivan
http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1981552
Boom-shaka. You're in good shape chief.
There are already 5 other apps in the app store that do the same thing as the wiki game, his is at least has a twist.
But I doubt that it matters that it's similar game play. How many roll the dice & go around the board games are there?
"New Competitors Help Validate Your Market"
So, I'm totally cool with ThreeWiki.com! :-)
When Ivan showed me the initial prototype of his app (over 6 months ago), neither of us had heard of The Wiki Game. We had however, heard of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon) before though, and I'm sure many others have too.
If you've ever worked on an idea, especially for the internet, you'll find that nearly all of them have been thought of before in some shape or form, so it's not surprising that they came up with this independently.
edit: language