Month: December 2012

  • Case Studies in Freemium: Pandora, Dropbox, Evernote, Automattic and MailChimp — Tech News and Analysis

    Case Studies in Freemium: Pandora, Dropbox, Evernote, Automattic and MailChimp — Tech News and Analysis

  • generativemistakes: Holger Lippmann, fractalScape the fractalScape series is made with processing svg load, using the disableStyle(); function for code based coloringand the getChild(); function for individual coloring of polygon parts out of one multi poligonal svg file.the iteration algorithm is dividing a shape down withing a 7-9 level loop. each repetition of the process is…

  • First and foremost, Weidemann instructed that naturally a game must be fun to attract (free-to-play) users, that is a no-brainer. But once in the game, these free-to-play users need to be monetized as efficiently as possible to generate revenue, to make it a sustainable service business-wise. Weidemann declared that monetization has now become the “most…

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  • laughingsquid: Lollyphile, Lollipops in Grownup Flavors

  • and are expected to sell 30 million units over the holiday period) in supporting the conclusion that iOS products will form one of the largest gaming platforms ever known – approximately a combined 500 million devices. This level of scale favors the free-to-play model: with such a large potential audience, a game’s user base can…

  • thisway: FontShop Bit Map (by Stewf)

  • The reason we have smartphones, the reason we have television, we’re able to talk on opposite sides of the continent, the reason we have smoke detectors… the reason we have these things is because we understand the reactions – the nuclear reactions – that take place in elements, in protons and neutrons and so on.…

  • Bruce Sterling asked me how we could get to the point where design fiction could become a commercial enterprise in its own right. Frankly, I’m not sure it can but it’s a very interesting question. And now that I’ve had some time to think about it, I can imagine design fiction consultancies that help (other)…

  • unhistorical: December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested. Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man and her subsequent arrest marked the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which eventually led to the federal ruling that declared bus segregation laws unconstitutional. At the time of her arrest Parks had been…