Hi everyone, we have a few announcements for our nightly game shows (7pm PT / 10pm ET at playcafe.com).

1. We're hiring!:We're growing our team and accepting applications for a variety of positions, including Executive Producer, Senior Engineer, Camera Operator, and Production Assistant. You can learn more on the positions in our Careers section.

2. Two minute trivia launches: We're testing a daily two-minute trivia podcast starring Daniella at trivia.playcafe.com.

We'll challenge you each day with one question, such as: "What percent of employees would fire their bosses if they could?" Send us your answer each day to trivia@playcafe.com and if you're within 10% of the answer, -you'll qualify for our daily prize!

3. Multimedia game testing: Think you can identify movies, music, and pictures? That's the challenge for a new visual and audio game we're testing. Let us know what you think!

4. Weekly leaderboard winners: At the end of each week, a $10, $25 and $50 iTunes certificate will be awarded to the top scores.

AND EVEN MORE NEWS!

1. Anyone can now sign-up: You can now sign-up to play without an invite. Openness is good!

2. Put PlayCafe on your website: Want to attract visitors to your site with interactive TV? Starting today, you can put our live video stream, game window, and/or chat on your site. You can learn how on this page:

http://www.playcafe.com/cgi-bin/main.py?page=help_embed

3. We're hiring!: Do you love games? Do you want to be part of an innovative startup in interactive TV?

We're hiring for several positions:

-Executive Producer/Director
-Live game show host
-Web engineer
-Flash engineer
-QA engineer
-Production Assistant Intern

Remember our live, interactive game shows start at 7pm PT / 10pm ET at http://www.playcafe.com. More hours of programming are coming soon!

Game on!

Chad
Intern/Writer, PlayCafe

On behalf of Mark and Dev
Founders, PlayCafe

P.S. Visit us on MySpace! MySpace.com/PlayCafeTV!

So if you really want to win, you'd better not have Thanksgiving plans.

No, actually, there will be no Thanksgiving show. =)

Enjoyed the game tonight! Just wish my computer hadn't cut out at the end!

Ryan :)
(the first caller)

That would be their streaming video...it's doing it to everyone.

Speaking of which, Matt O...I believe you were going to experiment Friday with IE7 and see if it worked any better. Any results to report?

Tried a different experiment instead. (Really don't like using Explorer any more than I absolutely have to.) I completely closed out of Firefox and reopened after each game. Didn't have a problem except for jumpy video in game three, which seemed to be everybody's problem and unrelated to my earlier freezes.

Meanwhile, how bad is my obsession with this thing that I'm figuring out how I'm going to play on Wednesday and Friday during a trip to Tennessee?

Clearly I need to check this out, when I'm on my break from work and can more easily schedule in such things.

Wow, when did they get the Internet in Tennessee? :)

It really is a lot of fun. I strongly recommend it!

For me, the best part of the show (and the big reason why I go almost every night) is the chat feature. Yeah, we do get a little silly sometimes, but it pleasantly simulates a "game night" get-together with your close friends. And it's a great way to get to know fellow GSF boardies.

Often, even the hosts will stop the game momentarily if the chat is particularly interesting or funny.

It requires an invite, I could gladly send you one if you want it.

Thanks, but no need yet....I don't start my 100-day break until December 11, and I really won't have time to dedicate to it until then, so there's no huge rush. :)

I can't speak for everyone, but I attribute most of my problems to my seizure induced tablet pc. :)

Please! I'm trying to figure out how I can be live doing a radio show tonight while playing!

I do hope you don't take as much flack as I do when I get time off!

Ryan :)

/it's not my fault my school gives me ten weeks off in a row...

Sadly, this is Microsoft contractor policy, not a voluntary leave of absence, so flack will not be distributed. But I plan to take full advantage of three months of financially-solvent unemployment. :)

Is this a talk or sports show that you host? If it's just playing music, I'm surprised that there still live music shows after dark!

Most of those stations nowadays are automated with the the announcers "pre-recording" their schtick!

/Damn the evil Clear Channel empire!

Hey Tim

I actually work as a teacher but I've started to moonlight on my school's new, honest to goodness, CRTC-approved radio station, CHOP FM. I have a one hour slot on Monday nights at 10 EST, and I play a bit of everything. I've done college radio with two stations before, and I find it really fun and relaxing. We are a small station but there is a live link so that people outside of a say 5 km radius can listen too.

We're pretty much independent so not as part of any empire - yet.

Cheers

Ryan :)

/who is hoping that he will host some kind of game show format, preferably soon, on said station.

"Welcome to "How's This Canadian?", the CanCon radio quiz!"

And that link is...

Touché!

102.7, CHOP FM, Newmarket

Right now we only have programming Sunday nights (teachers), Monday night (me) and Mon-Fri mornings (students), however hopefully it'll grow! It's hard scheduling students mind you because they've got a rotating timetable.

Ryan :)

Just a reminder that we're still alive and that our weekly leaderboard cycle has started. It's still not too late to knock anyone off of a perch, though! =)

Also, an even more exciting reminder.. Open registration is now available! Get signed up in time for next week's leaderboard cycle!

Chad,

I have to ask because I wasn't there on Wednesday or Thursday. What was the ruling on the Tuesday episode on if leaderboard points were given, were no points given or my suggestion, half the points?