I can't imagine the people who pay for those placements would want search engine spam appearing on the tops of their pages that they've paid to get people directed to.
You know what? I'm glad. I know this is entirely inevitable, as the companies seek to dominate the market as best they can. This is bad. However, this also means that there will inevitably be a company that is smaller, more agile, and more creative who will eventually shatter any stranglehold they have on the market. Remember guys, people looked past the fact that Grand Theft Auto didn't license car names. It was the gameplay that was revolutionary. Sports games are the same way. The names are important, but anybody can spoof them without needing a license (parody law?).
But now I can't think why I honestly care about this. I don't like sports games at all. I don't play physical sports outside, why would I want to be subjected to them on the computer as well?
No kidding. I'm disgusted to see things go this way. It used to be you got everything, for about 50 bucks. Then, you could download updates for free. Then you could buy "expansion packs" (glorified patches) with a little new content for about half the full games retail price, but the mods for the games were still free. Now the expansion packs are being sold as entirely new games, and the companies are starting to buy up the mods and sell them.
In the future, look forward to just buying the engine and having to pay for every little bit of content you want. The games industry is going to nickel and dime us out of everything they can, and that just means charging more for an increasing number of things. In the retail world, this strategy is commonly known as selling your main product cheaply, and making your fortune off of accessories.
I'm really getting tired of people who whine about companies focusing on graphics. Not everybody can focus on every aspect of immersion. Sony and MS are hedging their bets that the biggest payoff will come in the form of visual immersion, whereas Nintendo is basing it off of tactile and other forms of immersion.
In the future, in order for us to have full virtual reality like in the Matrix, we will need ALL of these elements. ESPECIALLY graphics. You do realize that humans are entirely visual creatures right? I realize that its only part of the equation, but what I'm saying is that its a large enough part that I don't see any reason why they SHOULDN'T tackle it first.
"I wouldn't call that "viral", it's controlled growth very much like gmail."
You're wrong. It most certainly is viral. As someone in advertising, allow me to explain what the jargon means. "Viral marketing" means that it gets marketed via word of mouth. It doesn't matter if its controlled or not, it simply means that people hear about it from each other instead of traditional advertising.
I always had a theory that the best way to build AI would be to make it mimick as well as possible the learning process of a new born baby. If it can do that, and can develop its own neural net, it could learn on its own.
Napster is at a fork in the road. They have sold out, and every single person on the internet knows it, and their main competitor has a much higher "cool" factor than they do (ITMS).
They get ONE chance to win our trust and our praise on this, and one chance only. They screw it up, and they will have paved the road for Apple to do it right, which they inevitably will.
Napster needs to offer no DRM, fast downloads, no annoying and invasive advertising in the middle of the movies or anything, and a wide selection. If they can't do it, someone else will. Frankly though, I don't have much hope for them doing the right thing.
Bingo. And then write to local newspapers and get plenty of press about it, and don't forget to add that despite the school trying to prevent you from raising money, you're doing it anyway.
"Beginning in 2006, Take2 will have exclusive rights among third-party publishers to develop and market simulation, arcade and manager-style baseball video games..."
IANAIPL (I am not an IP lawyer) but doesn't this statement mean that nobody can make ANY type of baseball game? Not just ones with licensed characters, etc, but anythign having to do with baseball?
And on a different note, this is hardly innovative, and I find it amusing that they claim that when this was in direct response to EA grabbing the NFL rights.
But, I don't buy sports games, so while I would hate to see this happen to something like car games, I can't get too upset about it.
The page is down faster than Natalie Portman in hot grits. Anybody got a mirrordot or coral cache of some of the other Top 10 Highest Rated tiles? Some of the thumbnails look really cool, but I can't get to any of them. Thanks.
" The Internet can potentially allow a person to move from simply having a desire, to acting upon that desire."
So can an article in a magazine, or a rainy day, or a parking ticket. The medium is irrelevant. The internet can do a lot of things, but when someone decides to move from thinking about something to acting upon it, the blame rests solely and squarely on their shoulders.
This is really cool. How long before they start recruiting CS World Champs? In all seriousness though, I remember a comic in Wired years ago about the military using miniature bug sized recon drones that could fly or crawl, and they all had cameras attached to them. They would let people sign up, log in, and control them, and then report suspicious activity via a "Look at my bots cam" button. If they got enough "points" by discovering things, they gained status and better bots, etc.
I wonder how feasible something like that would be?
I will add to this and say that Exeem is not Suprnova reincarnated either. The company paid the creator to attach his name and grab the previous Suprnova userbase.
This is just a new "kazaa", and frankly I won't be using it because what I liked about Suprnova so much was the organization, the moderation the editors did with the files, and the ability to see on the front page what recent things were added to which categories.
I mean, its like when you walk into a Blockbuster and you don't know what you want. A lot of the time you just go to the New Release wall to see what you haven't seen yet, and then you check through the older stuff. Thats exactly how I used Suprnova, and until software comes along that can provide that, I'll continue using webpage based trackers (that don't have spyware).
I think its a really easy question. If Sony makes more profit on selling these unrestricted devices that would theoretically give us what we really want than by selling content and tying that content to their devices, I think its a pretty easy decision.
Of course, this story is also brought to you by the same company that has sued ITSELF! Wrap your head around that one.
Bingo. And marketers have been doing the same thing with Hollywood celebs for years. I just saw a show about celebrity wardrobes and how the company producing a kind of shoe gave free pairs to celebrities, who in turn wore them, and then they sold like hotcakes.
There is not a single damn thing that is new about this, or that makes it News For Nerds unless you count the fact that these guys are from Silicon Valley.
I would also be curious in knowing which one. I knew Jade for a while and I gotta say...talk about your suave uber-geek. The man was a complete womanizer and has way more geek cred than I'm sure half of Slashdot does.
You know, I can't help but think of the irony when all of us Slashdotters used to say that the Patriot Act and CAPPS are bad because for the first time they allow the government to gather all of that information digitally and combine it, whereas before they had to go out and get each piece individually.
Now they have all their info digitally, and they don't want us to be able to go through it.
I don't care how often the press releases state this is the next version of Suprnova....it is NOT.
The company behind Exeem (there is indeed a company, and they are going to be profiting, which raises some interesting legal questions) basically paid the creator of Suprnova for the rights to use his name and to basically say that Exeem is the next Suprnova. In layman's terms: They bought his credibility and userbase.
Personally, that doesn't matter that much to me. If it works, and gets as large as Suprnova with more protection and overall improvements...well, what do I care if they make money off of it. However, I will NOT tolerate any spyware/adware (a banner ad in the window is fine) bundled with it. Thankfully the makers of Exeemlite have taken care of this. I wonder how aggressively the folks at Exeem will handle this. The folks over at Sharman Networks (Kazaa) basically cut off everybody else on Kazaalite from their existing network.
So, in conclusion, I don't care if they make money as long as it helps protect me, and gives me more value than Suprnova did, and I will not tolerate any spyware/adware. If they screw that up, they've just screwed themselves.
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But now I can't think why I honestly care about this. I don't like sports games at all. I don't play physical sports outside, why would I want to be subjected to them on the computer as well?
In the future, look forward to just buying the engine and having to pay for every little bit of content you want. The games industry is going to nickel and dime us out of everything they can, and that just means charging more for an increasing number of things. In the retail world, this strategy is commonly known as selling your main product cheaply, and making your fortune off of accessories.
In the future, in order for us to have full virtual reality like in the Matrix, we will need ALL of these elements. ESPECIALLY graphics. You do realize that humans are entirely visual creatures right? I realize that its only part of the equation, but what I'm saying is that its a large enough part that I don't see any reason why they SHOULDN'T tackle it first.
You're wrong. It most certainly is viral. As someone in advertising, allow me to explain what the jargon means. "Viral marketing" means that it gets marketed via word of mouth. It doesn't matter if its controlled or not, it simply means that people hear about it from each other instead of traditional advertising.
Here's their email address: feedback@tech-blog.org
They get ONE chance to win our trust and our praise on this, and one chance only. They screw it up, and they will have paved the road for Apple to do it right, which they inevitably will.
Napster needs to offer no DRM, fast downloads, no annoying and invasive advertising in the middle of the movies or anything, and a wide selection. If they can't do it, someone else will. Frankly though, I don't have much hope for them doing the right thing.
And I'm sure reality TV doesn't fuel that fire in the least bit.
Man....I'd hate to be pitching when one of those guys charges the mound....
IANAIPL (I am not an IP lawyer) but doesn't this statement mean that nobody can make ANY type of baseball game? Not just ones with licensed characters, etc, but anythign having to do with baseball?
And on a different note, this is hardly innovative, and I find it amusing that they claim that when this was in direct response to EA grabbing the NFL rights.
But, I don't buy sports games, so while I would hate to see this happen to something like car games, I can't get too upset about it.
So can an article in a magazine, or a rainy day, or a parking ticket. The medium is irrelevant. The internet can do a lot of things, but when someone decides to move from thinking about something to acting upon it, the blame rests solely and squarely on their shoulders.
I wonder how feasible something like that would be?
This is just a new "kazaa", and frankly I won't be using it because what I liked about Suprnova so much was the organization, the moderation the editors did with the files, and the ability to see on the front page what recent things were added to which categories.
I mean, its like when you walk into a Blockbuster and you don't know what you want. A lot of the time you just go to the New Release wall to see what you haven't seen yet, and then you check through the older stuff. Thats exactly how I used Suprnova, and until software comes along that can provide that, I'll continue using webpage based trackers (that don't have spyware).
Of course, this story is also brought to you by the same company that has sued ITSELF! Wrap your head around that one.
There is not a single damn thing that is new about this, or that makes it News For Nerds unless you count the fact that these guys are from Silicon Valley.
Now they have all their info digitally, and they don't want us to be able to go through it.
The company behind Exeem (there is indeed a company, and they are going to be profiting, which raises some interesting legal questions) basically paid the creator of Suprnova for the rights to use his name and to basically say that Exeem is the next Suprnova. In layman's terms: They bought his credibility and userbase.
Personally, that doesn't matter that much to me. If it works, and gets as large as Suprnova with more protection and overall improvements...well, what do I care if they make money off of it. However, I will NOT tolerate any spyware/adware (a banner ad in the window is fine) bundled with it. Thankfully the makers of Exeemlite have taken care of this. I wonder how aggressively the folks at Exeem will handle this. The folks over at Sharman Networks (Kazaa) basically cut off everybody else on Kazaalite from their existing network.
So, in conclusion, I don't care if they make money as long as it helps protect me, and gives me more value than Suprnova did, and I will not tolerate any spyware/adware. If they screw that up, they've just screwed themselves.