Archive for December, 2009
Love and Hate Are Always Better Than Like.
Set Godin pulls apart a New York Times article on user feedback for the Kindle, and mentions something that everyone interacting with user metrics should be keenly aware of: Amazon reviews never reflect the product, they reflect the passion people have for the product. As Jeff Bezos has pointed out again and again, most great [...]
Dear Duke Nukem: Compromise Is Part of the Process
There are plenty of lessons to be learned from the decade long debacle of Duke NukemForever, but the key one here, I think, is that any creative process is going to have elements of disappointment when you launch. Things you imagined would be better but aren’t, or ideas that you hoped would flourish but didn’t. [...]
A Vision for a Magazine on Digital Dveice
This technology doesn’t exist yet, but it’s good to see people are already thinking about the impact of the next generation of digital devices. The good stuff starts at about 3 minutes in. The first generation of digitized media tends to closely relate to our analog experiences, but quickly takes advantage of the flexibility of [...]
Why Zynga is worth $2.5 Billion
With their latest huge investor Zynga is now valued at somewhere around 2.5 billion dollars, give or take a billion (and who’s counting, right)? As usual when these huge valuations come around, people tend to question whether or not the company is really worth it, especially when you consider they pulled off this kind of [...]
Video Games as Astroturfing
Rachel Maddow covers the controversy over using virtual offers as a political tactic: She does an excellent job of breaking down the economics.