Kudos to Charles Hudson for a splendid job running the Social Gaming Summit. It was a great turnout, over 500 folks showed up well north of the 200 or so they expected. A few big takeaways: There is no ip in casual games. Duplicating each other’s games has been around forever, but now Zynga has […]
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There is no place like New York City
I have had a love hate relationship with NYC, having lived there for 20 years from 1983-2003, through some of the best and worst times NYC had to offer. But there are moments like the one I experienced yesterday, which cover more than a multitude of problems. I walked into the Barnes and Noble on […]
Continue Reading...Freemium Model at a Gas Station
Who would have thought the freemium model would have hit the gas station business, but I saw it today driving back from a great team bonding trip white water rafting in Maine. As I approached the gas station, I noticed that there was no credit card facility at the pump. Nor did they tell me […]
Continue Reading...Flash by any other name is still flash
The number of Flash games purporting to differentiate by claiming to modifying flash are legion- almost everyone dies something to make flash more suitable for game development – to the point that the differentiation is now commoditized.
Continue Reading...Google Doesn’t Get It — Pull is not Push
The announcement that Google is getting out of the radio business is no surprise. Not because they could not measure performance of the audio ad business, which of course is not resolvable to a formula that smart engineers can go off an code. Rather, they confuse their success in a pull business with businesses that […]
Continue Reading...3D is 3D, Not 2D
Getting frustrated by the usurping of the term 3D. Stuff that is clearly not 3D is getting tagged as such. Bweek is an early culprit http://tinyurl.com/c52b5w. Why do I care? Because it confuses the market. Is their work important? Absolutely. Products like Cooliris are very cool and may help redefine the casual UI, but it […]
Continue Reading...Telling a Story
Time is short for everyone. Fewer people are being asked to do more and more work. Information overload has hit us hard. The tools to produce jazzy, multimedia presentations are ever stronger. All of the above suggests that presentations are therefore even harder to make memorable. No one has the time to listen to you […]
Continue Reading...Big Hire for Hangout
In the life of a company, there are moments when the direction it takes is highly influenced by a singular event. I have seen everything from a customer or investor commitment to the hire of the right or wrong person radically change the trajectory of the company. For Hangout, the hire of Mike Goslin (http://partners.hangout.net/PressRelease.aspx) […]
Continue Reading...Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation — Perception vs Reality
We all have experiences with how perception often overrides reality. What appears to be true is much more appealing than what is true. As I read Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin, I was continually struck by how our perception of the events of the day are far different than the reality. The latest reality […]
Continue Reading...Blockbuster will be sold for piece parts in less than 2 years
I know this sounds either naive or obvious, but my forecast is not based on the advent of netflix and nextflix streaming or some other obvious disintermediator. Its part competition, but its also part bad service on their part. While one or the other could take a long time to bring Blockbuster down, the combination […]
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