Mastodon Does Not Need A Win To Succeed
If the only winning social media move is not to play the black and white game of finding “one true victor”, then Mastodon has succeeded long before Twitter’s stramash.
Tag: success
The six billion pound franchise that’s made in Scotland
In case you missed it, Brian Baglow has the reminder, over on Scottish Games: While it’s too early to provide reliable sales figures, industry analysts are forecasting sales of 20-25,000,000 units in the first twelve months and generate a billion dollars in sales in the first month. With such positive reviews and the reception thus far, this figure does not seem unreasonable. As of December 2012, GTA IV alone had sold over 25,000,000 copies. …Globally, the series has sold 125,000,000 copies to date, generating around $6,000,000,000. The games have received almost all of the awards it is possible for them
Zynga never measured ‘fun’
Ars Technica takes a long and detailed look at Zynga, although it boils down to this paragraph from former Zynga designer Jason Pyke: You could always fight back, but ultimately what it came down to was: I could always argue that this would make the game fun, but I had a PM tell me—many times—that they ‘couldn’t get data on fun. Still, fascinating weekend reading.
Why I love Facebook’s “interesting news” view
Back in olden times, people would get up and complain about the weather. Now that we have evolved and do everything else online, the weather is always the same – slow internet connection and not enough cute pictures of cats. What is there to moan about now? So thank you Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, you’ve given the internet something better than rain. You’ve given us something to moan about every… single… day… Tip of the hat to GD, if I could ever find the link on Facebook again. Must remember to moan about that as well.
How long until a Daily Deal site offers a deal for another Daily Deal site?
Wall Street Journal: Nearly one-third of all daily-deal sites nationwide—or 170 of 530—have shut down or been sold so far this year.
The Fringe Podcast, beaten only by Radio 4
I popped into iTunes yesterday to grab some links, and while I was there, check that the Fringe podcast is showing up and getting fed through properly (to which the answer is almost, as the new album art needs picked up), and I glanced at the top lists in the Arts section. As you do. Wow. The individual episodes list had one of the Fringe podcasts in ninth place. And if you count The Archers and The Archers Omnibus as one show (which for PR purposes I think I will), the Fringe podcast made #3 in the overall charts! The
