October 2008
38 posts
Casual MMOs get between 10-25% of users to pay →
There’s been some good number crunching going on at conferences and on the blogosphere to find out the basic economics of casual mmo / free to play companies. From a post a few months ago Jeremy…
September 2008
22 posts
Would the media stop calling this a Bailout package for wall street, this is a Self Preservation package for the US economy. #CNN
fatfoogoo - There is Money in Your Game →
in-game commerce provider
Lessons Learned →
IMVU Founders blog, quite good.
WatchGood preso from Danc on production, using actual citation research. Stuff like:
- is it better to have crossfunctional teams sit together or departments sit together?
- should you schedule to 100% of capacity? 120% 80%
- should you have walls?
- what happens when you get more than eight folks on a team
Interesting. MSNBC declaring McCain the winner, FoxNews declaring Obama the winner. You’re hardest on the one you love. #debate08
feels good to be blogging again. http://nabeel.typepad.com
Reagan quote I agree with under current circumstances, “The problem with communism is that it takes away your freedom to fail.”
Echo Nest, it's like S3 for music tools →
The Echo Nest is a damn cool company. Last week David Rusenko of Weebly wrote some nice thoughts on Loudcrowd on his blog (thanks David!). That led me to read some of his older posts, including…
Computer games drive social ties →
It was a 2006 Pew Internet & American Life project that first confirmed some thoughts for me that led to Conduit, so I like to keep a close eye on what they are saying. Today they revealed a new…
Feeling Internet warmth from all the well wishers today.
Some startup on our floor is fucked (see on a whiteboard nearby). http://twitpic.com/b9ro
YouTube on Tivo is actually really good. Just used it to watch the ABC Palin interview that we missed tonight.
When have you released too early? →
(The following is consolidated notes from the talk at the Startup meetup put on by the YCombinator folks, which I found to be a very enjoyable event and hope they put on again soon) Conduit Labs…
TriggerMail →
Manages event-based email delivery for your site (such as a new friend added, welcome email, etc)
Does anyone use one of those outsourced exec assistant services?
happy to have @devilmouse as an office-mate today, he just created a .plan to twitter sync. So retro.
