December 2011
2 posts
Social/Phone Gaming and Bugs
With the comments from some analysts today that social gaming is flat or unsustainable, let me mention something that may be clear to people on the inside but might not be visible to the outside:
Social games, and mobile / iPhone games, are designed to exploit platform bugs.
What does this mean?
Some facebook games became popular because they exploited the ability of applications to generate...
Reed Hastings Claims To Be Moneyball
“We’re very much the ‘moneyball’ content buyers,” Hastings said, referring to Michael Lewis’ book about a low-budget baseball team’s approach to player acquisition. “We’ll look at, OK, we paid X for something, so how many people watched it?”
Netflix has problems. At least, their streaming service has problems. The biggest problem...