Mac App Store Notification Center

Hello many smart people on this forum,
As the days have passed after downloading Mountain Lion, I have receieved many updates on the Mac App Store. The weird thing, I find about this, is that I have not found any notifications about these updates, or recieved any banners. I'm wondering, what's going on? Is there some secret setting to do this, or does it just take time, or is it only spontaneous?
Many thanks, Daniel.

I understand that the MAS is not in the preferences for notification center. I guess my question is this: when it gave you the notification for an update, was the update already downloaded and you just had to install it? If so, how much time did it take for the update to be published to the MAS, to be automatically downloaded? Just curious. I'm just a bit disgruntled Apple hasn't said a lot about how automatic downloads work in Mountain Lion.

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1. Make redundant backups, keeping at least one off site at all times. One backup is not enough. Don’t back up your backups; make them independent of each other. Don’t rely completely on any single backup method, such as Time Machine. If you get an indication that a backup has failed, don't ignore it.
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4. Beware of trojans. A trojan is malicious software (“malware”) that the user is duped into installing voluntarily. Such attacks were rare on the Mac platform until sometime in 2011, but are now increasingly common, and increasingly dangerous.
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imacyh.com wrote:
... i need all the steps to be mac developer to be able to distribute my finished game at the Mac App Store!
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349
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