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Thats quite a nice article! Wonder how this could be related to startups (e.g. how to optimally design your website to "hook people")? I am sure a lot of the g
by daniel_iversen 15y ago
Thats quite a nice article! Wonder how this could be related to startups (e.g. how to optimally design your website to "hook people")?
I am sure a lot of the game companies (Zynga, online poker etc) are all over this!
Also reminds me a little of this awesome Reddit interview as well (the guy explains how data driven the online game companies are and its quite awesome and scary); http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/pc6j9/iama_former_fulltime_zynga_engineer_quit_6_months/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/pc6j9/iama_former_full...
Lastly it also reminds me of this article from a few days ago illustrates what crazy (but profitable) things you can do with data/behaviour/trend analysis (how the Target shops target you advertising); http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
- gojomo 15y agoZynga continues a long tradition of gambling/addiction innovation in San Francisco, going back at least to the invention of the slot machine by Charles Fey in ~1895: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_machine#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_machine#History