Posts Tagged with ‘EA’

There couldn't be a better time for the intertubes to erupt in controversy over social games than the day after I post on the merits of real casual gaming in social media versus the self-proclaimed phenomenon of casual gaming, Nintendo's Wii.  I'm not sure what feeds you readers might check throughout the day, but a large group of my own feeds have been focused on the sensational Facebook game Scrabulous being shut down in the U.S. and [...]

I followed liveblogs of the iPhone SDK announcement today (thanks to TUAW and Engadget) just for fun, to see if any new social platforms would emerge or special Web 2.0 news would come out.
Was I the only one shocked with the closing of the media event? I should have known that Jobs had something up his sleeve all along with his announcement of iFund. Apple is going to partner with KPCB in venture capital business, and I, for one, [...]

Gamers have been waiting for more than two years for Spore, the release from Sims creator Will Wright that has been rumored to be vaporware. With a final release date given as September 7, 2008, the wait finally has an end date. But what does Spore have to do with Web 2.0?
Spore will be the first game released that not only has social networking capabilities, but also takes advantage of existing Web 2.0 technologies from outside the EA umbrella. [...]

Having been both a developer and a marketing wonk in former career incarnations, one of the most frustrating things about Web 2.0 applications for me is the frequent lack of a business model. New apps are launched every day with no plan in place for how to monetize them. You can talk about market position and valuation until you are blue in the face, but if your product doesn't make money, eventually you burn through all that VC money that [...]

Could we be witnessing Web 3.0 and not even know it? Virtual worlds exist all around us, yet we really do not think of them in that way. I remember playing a game called Counterstrike, where thousands, even millions of people acted out their Terrorist or Counter-Terrorist fantasies every night, and still do. The advent of MMO's (Massive Multiplayer Online games) like Warcraft has been under our radar in the Web 2.0 world to an extent.
In fact gaming in general is [...]