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Heavy Traffic: 750,000 hits in 3 days
If I seem a little distracted … 2 weeks ago, I started a small blog called App Rejections . Here’s the traffic graph for the first two weeks. The tallest peak over towards the right is 25,000 unique visitors hitting the site: It could have been worse; being a die-hard ...
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Google: “don’t be evil, be passive-aggressive”
This week, Google decided to once more actively break Gmail. It’s getting to the point where even Hotmail may provide a considerably better service (even bearing in mind the horrors of Microsoft Passport!). I’ve no idea why this is, but here’s a tongue-in-cheek suggestion: ...
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This is 2009: stop asking for fake email addresses
This came from a perfectly nice-seeming person, so I took it as genuine. Until I discovered the site I’d been lured in to. Very disappointing. Unsolicited email I received today: Hi Adam, I’m the editor of GamerBlips.com and MassiveBlips.com I wanted to share the news that T=Machine ...
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OS X: never let someone else use your computer
Even if you create an entirely separate user-account for them, with their own settings … if they happen to setup their keyboard differently, then: It permanently alters the keyboard settings, and there is no “reset”, nor “choose a different setup” button It ...
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What’s wrong with EA: EA Mythic, and the FAIL of WAR
I’ll do a follow-up post in a minute with the anecdote that lead me to this. But here’s the general opinion/analysis first. Project history (skip if you know all about Warhammer Online and Mythic already) Huge project (cost in excess of $50 million to develop), based on a ...
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Speaker Evaluations – GDC Austin 2009
Conferences don’t make these public. But they should. So … here are the evaluations (from the audience) for our panel session at AGDC 09 . Judge for yourself whether you want to attend any future sessions featuring us again (Adam Martin, Bill Dalton, Rick Lambright, Joe ...
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Focussed work-hours, and the Studio Manifesto
David Sirlin’s just done a writeup of Flashbang studios recent experiment with work hours : “The first part of their theory is that we really only get about 2 hours of seriously focused, amazing-quality work per day–if we’re lucky. Maybe you can get 2.5 or 3 ...
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So, who’s going to buy Zynga?
(for the three people who haven’t heard yet, EA just bought PlayFish, for circa $400 million) Three things I have to say on this: Mainstream games industry people question it’s value Yes, of course it was worth it What Would Zynga Do? Mainstream games industry people ...
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Twitter: redglassesapps
A new twitter account you can use to keep up with all the iPhone stuff I’m doing: http://twitter.com/redglassesapps We’ll be posting app releases and iphone-dev links.
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Online Games as a Billion-Dollar Business
t-machine.org — I spotted some good commentary on NCWest’s City of Heroes/Villains in 2009 today – modulo one or... two quirks (umm … does Cryptic have anything to do with CoX any more? I thought this is now NCsoft’s game; as the publisher, they ... (more) Online Games as a Billion-Dollar Business