February 2010
22 posts
Mafia on Buzz, 8PM GMT (12PM Pacific), an... →
Glitch: the new game from Stewart Butterfield and... →
Twitter Reactions: See What Twitter is Saying... →
StartupList: Day 1 — Thank You →
Become a Gmail Master Redux [Hack Attack] →
Facebook Passes the 400 Million User Mark →
My instant reactions to the new Facebook redesign...
First impressions matter. So, in that vein, I just clicked open my Facebook profile, and here’s my immediate reactions:
Like the new featuring of games and apps in a much more visible space. Much better than the grey bar at the bottom which people couldn’t see.
Dislike the disappearance of Lists. I use lists quite a lot to see what’s going on in my various groups of friends....
StartupList: Day 1 — Thank You - Venture Hacks... →
Time to Liberalise Immigration (#government...
(http://startupvisa.com/modified-eb5-visa/)
There’s a really interesting movement going on in the US at the moment calling for the creation of a “Startup Visa”. Broadly speaking, the movement’s founders believe that entrepreneurship is the soul of the US economy but that the immigration laws in the US are acting as a serious constraint on the supply of entrepreneurs into...
Wired 9.12: Take The Autism-Spectrum Quotient Test... →
Be Authentic (#games #marketing #social)
In a previous post I wrote that the primary mistake that game makers have often made is lacking a marketing story behind their games, and how that reflects an attitude of thinking of your players as distraction-seekers rather than would-be members of your treehouse. Even when they accept this, the follow-on mistake that game makers then commit is that they try and create a fake story at the last...
WatchSeth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
