Just the other day I had an idea for a project I would like to realize. It would rely completly on user generated content. Which can be a blessing or disaster. So i Googled on User Generated content (UGC) and found this blog post on how wrong UGC can be, done wrong. My idea was [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
200 posts, time to increase even more!
Posted by Daniel on July 2, 2008
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Hurray! This is my 200th post on this blog! Since I started blogging in Febuary 2007 I have composed around 11 post a month. But the last couple of month have been a bit slow. My calender have been full, with everything from moving, to festivals and work. But now I have more time so [...]
Alternative ways increase revenue for the music labels
Posted by Daniel on July 2, 2008
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The big record labels in the UK, report a increase in revenure from new sources outside the traditional direct sale model. Licensing to movies, commercials, games and other mediums have increased and therefor the profit from those areas. Investments on mobile and online seems to work very well since revenue went up around 55%. It [...]
Chrono Trigger DS
Posted by Daniel on July 2, 2008
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Today news have been circulating of a new count down site over at Square-Enix japan, which indicate a re-release of Chrono Trigger to the Nintendo DS. Not a remake like Final Fantasy 3 or 4, but a re-release. As one of my absolute favorite games, I probably have to buy this game just for the [...]
DIII announcment spawns fans petition
Posted by Daniel on July 2, 2008
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This weekend Blizzard finally announced Diablo 3. Its one of the big news in the game community now. One effect have been a sales boost for the sequel 8-year old game Diablo 2. Another more unexpected consequence is the creation of a petition were over 2000 fans have signed against the art choices and directions [...]
Newspaper advertising decrease
Posted by Daniel on July 1, 2008
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From the war and oil loving land of US, reports show that the newspaper industry are having problems with attracting and keeping ad revenue. One of the big villains appear to be the online digital medias who now a day steel much of the attention. When the number of easy accessible media channels increase, the [...]
Achievements/Trophies – an important selling point?
Posted by Daniel on July 1, 2008
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Sony have now officially announced the release date for their Playstation 3 2.40 firmware update. They have somewhat copied the Achievement concept from Xbox360, were if you do certain things or complete a list of objectives, you earn different amount of achievements points. Achievements have growned and (or so it seems) become very important and [...]