Archive for March, 2009
Speaking tonight at The Facebook Developers Garage
I’ll be giving a talk in San Francisco tonight on casual gaming metrics applied to social gaming. If you’re in town for GDC and looking for something to do tonight, this may be the meetup for you! Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:30pm – 9:30pm Hyatt Regency San Francisco 5 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, CA There’s [...]
Your Game is a Service Business
My latest opinion piece is up over at Inside Social Games. Here’s a taste: But whether it’s what we play, or how we play it, some companies are beginning to figure out that even though they are now directly responsible for dealing with their irate customers, that relationship is becoming as important as the product [...]
Are used games a missed opportunity for Publishers?
There aren’t many companies that sell games that aren’t in the used game business these days. Gamefly jumped in last year, and now Amazon is getting on-board. That’s clearly an issue for publishers and developers since games aren’t a tiered business like movies, so there is no point in the business that they can be [...]
Microsoft Office to go Ad Supported?
I’m always interested in how products transition from old to new models (hence the name of this site), but I have to say that I’m surprised by this quote from an MS executive that Office 14 will have an ad-supported component. There will be ad-based revenue streams. There’s an opportunity to draw those pirate customers [...]