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by ijk 14y ago
I sure hope it serves Google's long term goals. Lest we forget, apparently Reader did not serve those goals, and got killed for it. They don't have to be nefarious, they just have to want to use you to sell ads.
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by ijk 14y ago
Sure, but part of the reason why they're defunct is that Google Reader killed them. Which doesn't address this point but does the larger conversation.
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by ijk 14y ago
Not the browser extension, but when I check a Feedburner feed in Chrome I see, in order: MyYahoo, NewsGator, MyAOL, Bloglines, Netvibes, Google Reader, Pageflakes, and then a dropdown for other options.
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by ijk 14y ago
This is actually a better point than you might think, because the state of game journalism means that most journalists and reviewers are both overworked and dependent on publishers, and this the publisher's spin doctoring. Many have just re
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by ijk 14y ago
They've been making a lot of public statements about how the simulation works and their plans over the course of development (For example: [1]). Most of it nitty-gritty stuff has been in industry conferences and publications, but there is
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by ijk 14y ago
> We thought of calling it SimCityVille, but that just didn't have the same ring to it. Amusingly, EA also has SimCity Social, a Facebook game, launched last June. It doesn't have server problems.
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by ijk 14y ago
The sad thing is, Zynga knows how to run a game as a service. They have the engineering down to a science, and a launch like this would never happen for them. For starters, they would have done continuous internal beta testing, had a soft l
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by ijk 14y ago
They were planning to (there's already lots of stuff in the Collector's Edition that's also available as DLC). But they were planning to do that with Spore too, and that didn't turn out so well.
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by ijk 14y ago
Orkut is big in Brazil and India, so it makes sense that Google wouldn't kill the only social media platform they own with an actual mainstream userbase (modulo YouTube).
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by ijk 14y ago
"It works for this one guy I know" is not really data. I think the real problem, though, is that EA has been treating this as a boxed product launch, not a service, and then acting shocked when they have service-type problems. If they had r
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by ijk 15y ago
You know, I've seen another industry that had droves of aspiring, creative artists clamoring to get into the industry and fulfill their dream. These were creatives who were willing to hand over their rights to the syndicate just to get a sh
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by ijk 15y ago
The RIAA are pikers next to Hollywood accountants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting/
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I'll note that recently Hollywood has largely abandoned the mid-range productions as being too risky for the potential payoff. It's all go big or go home for the studios.
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by ijk 15y ago
In a sense, Hollywood has died once before: the studio system used to be the only way of doing business in the movies. The breakup of the union between distribution and production lead to the current system of direct investment. http://en.