Robin Yang of Gamedaily.com fame, writes her first Games.com Diary: Jojo's Fashion show. In a new and innovative way to view online games, Robin talks about the immersive that online games can provide. Check it out now!
- Laurent Courtines
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- Laurent Courtines
Being in casual game business and having seen microtransaction work in 2000 at SportingNews.com Fantasy games, I am surprised that m-transations did not come to game sooner. It is clear that if you provide a playable game experience with an upsell for the hardcore players via m-transations you will make money. The key is to SCALE. 1million people paying 1$ is better than 5 paying none!
- Laurent Courtines
This is the twitter bio of the Community Manager of games.com and AOL Games. Laurent Courtines - Community Manager for Games.com and AOL Games. All Around webby personality. Baseball fan extraordinar.
- Laurent Courtines
Agree with this article. Teenagers are about myspace and im's and sms. The college kids are all about facebook and just use twitter as a way to update their facebook status on the road. sms is easier for 1-to-1 comm.
- Gil Francisco III
Agree. Work in a college and Twitter completely baffles young people even though they understand Facebook status updates. I think because Twitter is not
- the houstonmacbro
Never underestimate the power of being spatially adjacent when suplementing the population... and if that's not possible, at least you can survey the herd of FOFs from afar while claiming to be doing a research paper. Twitter says "hey, come wear this muzzle, and I mean really, you like to see pictures of each other?"
- Wade Dorrell
This is a problem for twitter. Young people count and start things
- Laurent Courtines
I'm just trying to get back into the friendfeed after starting up early. Noticing a lot more sign ups lately. Could it be the twitter integration?
- Laurent Courtines
Friendfeed still can't effectively search for every new mention of one of my posts
- Andy Beard
I love this. Get rid of the people who are a pain in the ass, don't provide revenue and waste time. I wish you could fire people like that
- Laurent Courtines
Very cool article on the connections and the beginnings of what could be the google toppler. Twitter/bitly/Tweetdeck already a powerful grouping but it sounds like there are more players. Interesting next 2-3 years.
- Laurent Courtines
I guess there is no Genius Bar for the app makers. My guess is Apple did not prepare for this at all and has no way to handle it. iTunes doesn't give refunds does ut?
- Laurent Courtines