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Google Maps Visitors Older than MapQuest
via Hitwise Intelligence - Analyst Weblogs by Heather Hopkins on February 12, 2008
A "MapQuest Advocate" left a comment on my post about Google Maps closing the gap with MapQuest suggesting that Google Maps users are younger. I thought the assumption was interesting and worth checking. In fact, our data shows that in the four weeks to 9th February 2007, US visitors to Google Maps were OLDER than those on MapQuest. This surprised me too - so I did some digging.In the past four...
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Raising Money in Tough Times
via Fractals of Change by Tom Evslin on February 12, 2008
The best time to SUCCEED in raising money is when money is hard to get - like now, for example. When capital is easy to get, your competitors (who are, of course, much less deserving) will have plenty of capital, too. Dumb spending or pricing by them may “force” you to do the same. In the end, easy capital may not give you any advantage at all and you pay for it with part of your...
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The intersection of Spore and MMOs
via Massively by Mike Schramm on February 13, 2008
Filed under: Real life, Culture, MMO industry, New titles, PvE, OpinionWill Wright's surely-a-masterpiece Spore got a date earlier this week, and just last night the floodgates opened on press coverage of it, so we've got lots of new info to drool over in the weeks to come. But Mike, you say to me, Spore isn't an MMO-- why are you talking about it here on Massively?You're right--...
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MMOG charts updated, WoW keeps its huge lead
via Massively by Mike Schramm on February 13, 2008
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, News itemsBruce Sterling Woodcock has updated his MMOGcharts.com website with the latest research into MMO populations, and as you can see above, WoW (the green line shooting towards the sky with no hint of slowing down) is continuing its rule of the roost. In fact, Blizzard's game is in a category all by itself-- no one else even breaks the 3.5...
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Social Network for Gamers, UGAME, Enters Private Beta
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on February 14, 2008
The prospect of founding a successful generic social network these days might be bleak given the dominance of players like MySpace and Facebook. However, there’s still plenty of room for niche social networks to rise and generate lots of participation.UGAME, which enters closed private beta this week, wants eventually to be the leading social network for gamers. The site will start off as a...
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App developers could learn from Facebook’s customer service
via Inside Facebook by Phil Edwards on February 16, 2008
Every Facebook developer is familiar with Facebook’s development languages: Facebook Platform runs on FBML, FQL, and FBJS, and developers learn those languages in order to create great apps. But while developers comb Facebook’s Wiki in order to figure out how to use the fb:photo tag, they rarely take the time to build up other parts of their operations critical to their success. Remembering...
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Hanging My Ass Out Online
via Eating Bees by sanyaweathers on February 17, 2008
I am, sadly, not part of the Facebook revolution, the MySpace weltanschauung, or even the blogging mindset. I know, this is a weird thing to hear coming from someone who has been running some kind of website splattered with overflowing id since 1999, but there it is.The thing is, I dislike hanging my ass out on the internet. By “ass” I mean “personal details.” It took nearly a year before...
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We Juggle Five Balls in the Air
via Ben Casnocha: The Blog by Ben Casnocha on February 17, 2008
Advice from James Patterson, former advertising mogul and now mystery fiction writer:Mr. Patterson urged her tothink of life as a game in which we juggle five balls labeled Work,Family, Health, Friends and Integrity: "One day you understandWork is a rubber ball. You drop it and it bounces back. The other four balls are made of glass. Drop oneof those, and it will be irrevocably marked, scuffed,...
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It's Better to Fail Quickly
via Feld Thoughts by brad@feld.com on February 18, 2008
... experience making the rounds.As someone who has experienced a lot of success and failure, I'm glad to see more people talking about failure in the blogosphere. It's a key part of the entrepreneurial experience. It's also an integral part of life that cannot be denied. While it's a lot more fun to succeed, it's important to understand how to deal with failure.
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