Maybe this is a nit, but I always cringe when I see the media call the google philosophy "Do No Evil" as if it was some weird cross between a doctor ("do no harm") or a monkey ("see no evil").
Wasn't it always "Don't Be Evil"? As in don't be like Microsoft? (As in: "they shared secret windows APIs with the office team? oooh, that's evil.")
I think the answer is that the games industry needs a better way to market the "Long Tail". There ought to be more money made in the 90% least popular titles than in the 10% most popular.
Retail don't cut it: the industry needs an iTunes/Amazon-like way of connecting to the consumer.
This is what we're trying to do in the mobile gaming space: http://mpowerplayer.com/. Check it out.
While some are busy handing out labels of ignorance, let me try to clear something up.
Fundamentalists are a subset of Protestants who are a subset of all Christians. Protestants believe that the Bible is the sole source of understanding the divine. Fundamentalists believe that the Bible should be literally interpreted as fact. The rest of us don't. Thank you.
When you don't have to literally interpret every word, hour, or day, there's not a lot of conflict with current scientific theory.
For instance, the order of events is basically correct: darkness, then light, then stars, then planets, then oceans, then land, plants, animals, and finally people. Not bad for people writing ~5000 years ago.
And the apple-from-the-tree-of-knowledge thing -- how is that not the story of humanity in general and geekdom in particular: germ warfare, nerve gas, nuclear proliferation, grey goo, cloning, cyborgification, etc. etc.
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Maybe this is a nit, but I always cringe when I see the media call the google philosophy "Do No Evil" as if it was some weird cross between a doctor ("do no harm") or a monkey ("see no evil").
Wasn't it always "Don't Be Evil"? As in don't be like Microsoft? (As in: "they shared secret windows APIs with the office team? oooh, that's evil.")
Please someone put my mind at ease on this one.
I think the answer is that the games industry needs a better way to market the "Long Tail". There ought to be more money made in the 90% least popular titles than in the 10% most popular.
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Retail don't cut it: the industry needs an iTunes/Amazon-like way of connecting to the consumer.
This is what we're trying to do in the mobile gaming space: http://mpowerplayer.com/. Check it out.
Here's the Wired article on Long Tail: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.htm
While some are busy handing out labels of ignorance, let me try to clear something up.
Fundamentalists are a subset of Protestants who are a subset of all Christians. Protestants believe that the Bible is the sole source of understanding the divine. Fundamentalists believe that the Bible should be literally interpreted as fact. The rest of us don't. Thank you.
When you don't have to literally interpret every word, hour, or day, there's not a lot of conflict with current scientific theory.
For instance, the order of events is basically correct: darkness, then light, then stars, then planets, then oceans, then land, plants, animals, and finally people. Not bad for people writing ~5000 years ago.
And the apple-from-the-tree-of-knowledge thing -- how is that not the story of humanity in general and geekdom in particular: germ warfare, nerve gas, nuclear proliferation, grey goo, cloning, cyborgification, etc. etc.
Can you remember when small, medium, and large cups each had own size of lid?
And convenience stores had to stock each separately and you couldn't tell by looking which size lid went with which size cup?
Thankfully, this is increasingly a thing of the past. Gotta love optimizing inefficiencies.