new media
Why the iPad Isn’t Insanely Great
Apple has, in the past, always built their consumer products around a need that has either been unaddressed, or closes an obvious “hole” in the marketplace, even if most people didn’t realize how obvious it was until someone built a shiny-white plastic a bridge across it.
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 the virtual [...]
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 value [...]
Are VideoGames Dead?
Interesting series on whether videogames are “dying”.
What’s interesting is that I think there’s lots of interesting information here about what’s going on in the core business, and I think there’s a major shift coming in the business models as we head to the next generation.
I’m also wondering if the term “budget title” is being used [...]
O’Reilly explains what may kill the Kindle in the long run.
There’s few people out there who have a better understanding of digital publishing than O’Reilly. He’s spent the better part of the last two decades publishing technical books that have given developers the information they need to make innovation happen, while being a driving force behind the rise of “Web 2.0″.
In this article for Forbeshe [...]
Why the XBox 360 may already be the next generation’s winning console
It’s heresy among the gamers to say that any particular console may have “won” a particular round of the game wars, especially when you’re talking about features not directly related to the games themselves. Over at Offworld, Jim Rossignol posts an excellent article discussing how the XBox may already be a generation ahead.
All I have [...]
What’s up with instant messaging?
Internet Messaging has always been a bit of a red-headed step child. Everybody has it, but no one really seemed to like it all that much. Even the term "chat" made it all seem so inconsequential.
And that makes sense. It’s a relatively "hot" medium for the Internet, demanding that you pay attention to an ongoing [...]
What the Newspapers gave away (and what they have left)
Scoble posts a nice rundown on why he thinks print news missed the boat (again) by letting Twitter own crowd-sourced news.
I’ve been pretending in my head that I’m a newspaper exec. When I do that I keep beating myself around the face. Why? Because the newspaper industry keeps giving the geeks free meals. Let’s study [...]
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 itself, and [...]
DRM hurts publishers as well as users.
Having won a minor battle with the Kindle, publishers are now free to request that digital reading can be disabled on any individual book that is downloaded.
That may be bad news fhe book industry.
So far the transition to digital media has been filled with different industries practicing radical nose removal, absolutely convinced that the face [...]