Bringing a little drama to social games
by justingibbs on February 19, 2010
Tim O’Rielly recently posted about a dream he had for augmented reality and fiction. I share this dream as a reminder that the fiction and entertainments of the future may have a very different form than the fiction of today. The first metamorphosis is just to change the medium, in the way that the paper [...]
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by justingibbs on February 12, 2010
I’m catching a lot of flack for being a believer in Google Buzz. Interestingly enough most of the flack is coming in through Google Buzz itself. One theme I keep hearing is “Where’s the social games?” The launch of Google Buzz brings up an interesting debate – are social games are the killer app of social [...]
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by justingibbs on February 9, 2010
The echo chamber is abuzz with, we’ll Google Buzz. While some are negative: But like many Google services, it lacks any imagination or compelling reasons to use it. (Starting with the name, a rip-off from Yahoo.) As a result, it’s probably not a threat to any of the services it’s trying to disrupt. I’m a [...]
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by justingibbs on January 28, 2010
Talk to most hardcore gamers and they don’t consider social games to be games at all. Talk with many social gamers and it’s likely they don’t consider what they’re doing a game either. So what exactly are they doing? Facebooking, that’s what. Urban Dictionary defines Facebooking as a verb: To check your facebook profile, search [...]
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by justingibbs on January 23, 2010
Zynga’s strategy to copy and crush the competition could be more successful than it was for even Microsoft because social gamers don’t comparison shop. One way Zynga creates huge hits is by identifying popular games from other studios, creating a near replica, and then beating the original with a bigger marketing budget. The fact that [...]
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