I’m on vacation for a few days and then back to work in the respective field of social applications/services.

So – happy playying then.

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For the next interviews I’ll ask them about their opinions on the recent Silverlight and Google Gears for the mobile announcements.

While Samir won the Playyoo Contest we had fun and I was particularly lucky winning the Spinvox Totem. It goes straight into the arms of my daughter

Thanks!

GDC: Mobile is “Stagnating,” Must Evolve : Next Generation – Interactive Entertainment Today, Video Game and Industry News – Home of Edge Online: “But the panel also presented a variety of ways the industry is evolving to combat the problems of encroaching stagnation.”

We tackle the challenges in manifold ways: we are dedicated to casual games, with Flash Lite we try to circumvent the porting issue, and with free and (expert and novice) user -generated content we strive to solve the issue of innovation and creativity.
What’s missing – in terms of implementation – is the business model. More on that later. Just one hint: advertising will play an important but not exclusive role.

That reminded me, however, of a pattern I observed at Playyoo as well. We recently did a campaign with the following result.

The curve perfectly fits their comments. Now you just have to take care to repeat that pattern often enough. And – most important – your service/product needs to hit the right nerve and needs to deliver.

We have a challenge going on here at Playyoo. If we have 10000 users by next Friday Tim and me jump into the very cold Lake Lugano.

well, not easy to answer all those questions at once. I’ll start with one sentence. I’ll do marketing there (with a focus on social media). but instead please have a look at one of our (!) games.