Facebook Credits: A Paypal in Training?
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I’ve been reading curiously about the new beta Facebook Credits platform. Most coverage tends to focus on the unique elements of allowing users to vote economically for better content. Give a good content producer some credits, and perhaps that will incent them to produce more. Think Digg with economic value. I think [...]
GaaS at Work: Halo3
Though I don’t have time to be a hardcore gamer, I do dabble with a few to keep myself current with the state of the art in games, tools, infrastructure, and services. My experience last night validated an extensive post I did a few months back on the world of Games as a Service.
I decided to fire [...]
GaaS – The Rising World of Games as a Service
In the enterprise world, since the advent of Salesforce.com in the late 90s, we have heard about this notion of software delivered from the cloud and offered as a shared, multi-tenant service to customers, with the web browser acting as the universal interface to access the application. Over the past decade, SaaS based applications have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )NYC: The Media Capital in 2020?
Today, I attended the kick-off dinner to the NYC Economic Development Center’s efforts to shape and support NYC’s position as the media capital of the world for the next decade. The event was held at Gracie Mansion, and included 40-50 of the media industry’s most notable names. It was a great cross-section – from traditional [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )AlwaysOn Panel: “Big Media’s Digital Strategies: Where do Private Companies Fit?”
I moderated a panel this past week at the AlwaysOn OnMedia conference in NYC. It was an opportunity to get behind what the “big media” folks are thinking in this economy, and how they interact with startups. The panelists were Jessica Schell, SVP, NBC Universal; Walker Jacobs, SVP at Turner Digital; Vivek Shah, Group President Digital, [...]
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