Looking for a cool illustration / timeline of the key changes in the mobile and internet sphere over the past decade. Any suggestions?
Meanwhile, here are some related "tech" ethnography vids:
The Machine is you/us (aka Web 2.0 in 5 minutes)
The information (r)evolution:
Friday, January 25, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Bamboozled for 25 points (and $25K!)
Most Facebook users have enjoyed playing (or gotten addicted to!) Scrabulous -- the hit online word game. Launched in 2005 by two 20-something Indian brothers, Scrabulous shot to fame as a Facebook application in 2007. Sadly, all of this may come to an end as Hasbro and Mattel (who own the collective IP rights for Scrabble globally) have issued a cease-and-desist order.
Is Scrabulous in hot water because of its name and functional similarity to Scrabble? Has the game's popularity (~600,000 daily active users, generating $25,000 a month via advertising space revenues) detracted from rather than complemented Scrabble's potential sales? Would this have happened if Facebook adopted a different advertising strategy or if the brothers had stuck to their original name -- Bingobinge? Better put your bingos down now!
Read more at this Financial Times article
Is Scrabulous in hot water because of its name and functional similarity to Scrabble? Has the game's popularity (~600,000 daily active users, generating $25,000 a month via advertising space revenues) detracted from rather than complemented Scrabble's potential sales? Would this have happened if Facebook adopted a different advertising strategy or if the brothers had stuck to their original name -- Bingobinge? Better put your bingos down now!
Read more at this Financial Times article
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