Someone just wrote this comment on one of my StackOverflow answers: Fundamentally, this question/answer pair is saying: “Apple: one of your non-programming managers made a stupid mistake in one of your core tools, one used every day by hundreds of thousands of people; since you won’t fix it, here’s a […]
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Steve Yegge’s Google Platforms Rant is not so much a rant as a sign of someone fighting an inappropriate culture. We saw stuff like this a lot at NCsoft when people were trying to turn around the $100 million clusterf*ck that created hundreds of redundancies all the way to director […]
This is cool – a great use of Google’s tech, a great example of what it *really* means to drag Online Games and MMO’s out of the stone-age of “do what Diablo did, but with more people on screen”. Sadly, it doesn’t quite work – none of the stereographic projection […]
Another interesting post from Dan Lee Rogers on whether the money paid for ngmoco last year was reasonable. (hint: Dan is clearly rather doubtful, IMHO with good reason) E.g. … Further, Ms. Namba stated that DeNA’s purchase decision was based ngmoco’s ability to create hit iPhone games, which begs the […]
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you’ll have read my thoughts on the Science part of Marketing, and how much money this makes you. As I explained recently to an Accountant, we don’t have a “business plan” for my current company, we only have a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet […]
(where normaly people might “Be original, then Apologize if you fail”) Just a minor piece of recent DRAMA! DRAMA!, something to cheer up the week… This excellent piece of Advertising / Fun / Augmented Reality / Creativity was – like most big-budget ideas – based on someone else’s idea, someone […]
I’m getting messages every day from John Say (of Say Design) pushing me to join his network on Ushi. Ignoring them had no effect; I’m now routinely forwarding these to google’s spam box. I’m amazed that in 2010 people would send out an “invitiation” to their business contacts without bothering […]
Interesting search result for “O2 Facebook”: …IIRC that started off as a service for MySpace, then MySpace/Facebook. Apparently now it’s all about Facebook (only). The only mention of MySpace is a navbar link to something about broadband – seemingly unrelated. PS: Entity System post coming soon, for those that look […]
(for the three people who haven’t heard yet, EA just bought PlayFish, for circa $400 million) Three things I have to say on this: Mainstream games industry people question it’s value Yes, of course it was worth it What Would Zynga Do? Mainstream games industry people question it’s value I’ve […]
I saw an article recently that described this attitude nicely: certain weak marketing executives believe that the purpose of a “conversation” is for them to have more ways of telling the customer what to do; they are seemingly incapable of understanding the idea that a “conversation” involves listening to the […]
This talk was all about a theory of innovation/finding new markets known as Blue Ocean Strategy, from a book published in 2005. I first came across this book/theory when I joined NCsoft a few years ago (apparently, the CEO and board in Korea were very keen on it), which is […]
Wifi and internet at all is a priviledge – but Free Wifi is something that in our modern society, and the society we’re set to become, needs to be treated as a right. When I started writing this, I was looking at the benefits we have yet to see (ubiquitous […]
Adam Martin, (me!) Summary I was giving this talk, so … no live writeup this time :). The slides are up on slideshare here: http://www.slideshare.net/guest38ac74/how-to-sell-social-networking-to-your-boss-and-publisher-1215019 NB: I lost my voice the morning of the talk, and panicked, and rewrote the slides to include everything in words in case I couldn’t […]