(4 posts in one day? Yeah! Too busy to be regular right now. GDC is on the way) At the end of my commentary on the formation of NC West, I added almost as an afterthought a little comment about Europe and the MMO industry: there’s a gaping hole in […]
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Mark Cuban’s blog is an odd one; I really can’t remember why I started reading it (presumably linked by a VC blogger would be my guess), and yet even though I read very few blogs I’ve stuck with his. It’s not like the standard SiValley other investor/commentator blogs. It’s a […]
Here’s a question about increasing the profitability and decreasing the development cost of any MMO, although probably no-one except the web-people will recognise it as such (and even some of them won’t get it): How do you improve the customer support for an existing MMO? [where do you start, and […]
The App Store is just another casual games distribution platform + social network. You can pretend it isn’t (sometimes I think Apple is still pretending that it’s just an extension of iTunes, and ignoring the social side completely – Doh!), but that doesn’t make it true :). Apple’s had the […]
On this site I have a rather subtly-hidden Blog Roll. When I started blogging, the site had less on it, and the roll was easy to find – and short. Now it’s not. And it’s long. And each link on there has been carefully considered. There’s some gems in there […]
(a FAIL using web-based meeting tools) 1) Make it look fun and interesting and seemingly inclusive: “MiniBar is a social evening in East London which offers people a chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 (3.0) mayhem & […]
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s been a recent disturbance in the force for the inhabitants of the place they call Second Life, and it’s all about money. But that’s not what this post is about (I’m not that interested in the internal politics of a single VW/MMO/whatever, until/unless they […]
A little over 2 years ago, a new startup went into private alpha. Here’s one (of many) announcements about it: On 9/18/06, Jim Greer wrote: > > Hi all – > > I want to announce my soon-to-launch Flash game startup to this list – I’m > looking for game […]
From the latest newsletter, at the bottom (after the big graphics and announcement about “moshlings” – aka mini-moshi-monsters (my – this is getting a bit infinitely recursive, isn’t it? Now your child’s pet has a pet :). I’m still trying to attract an interesting Moshling (the minigame to get them […]
Web 2.0 strategies often say “we can’t compete with our users, there’s too many hundreds of millions of them, and actually – collectively – they outmatch us in almost everything we do. So we’re going to bring them into our company, we’re going to let them develop the products, we’re […]