Monthly Archives: February 2013
The Video Game Industry is Dead – Long Live the Video Game Industry
The video game industry has enjoyed a multi-decade run of enormous economic success. It redefined the way consumers engage their televisions. It has given birth to a new breed of storytellers, ones that include programmers and designers who are capable of producing characters, narratives, and worlds on a par with the best Hollywood has to […]
Minding the Gender Gaps in Dating Services: Mobile and Web
With the smell of roses and the taste of chocolates exchanged on Valentine’s Day still lingering on the palate, I wanted to share an article on dating services I found this week that surprised me. According to analytics firm Flurry, men dominate usage of mobile dating apps. It’s not even close; 66 percent of users […]
Do I really need to build an app?
Intelligent people with lots of mobile industry experience still debate this topic aggressively, which is understandable given the stakes. All of us in the industry can see users surging toward mobile. The question is how best to serve those users: app or web (or both)? In this post, I’m not going to answer the question. […]
Quick hits: Yahoo and Facebook focus on mobile engagement, plus CES 2013 takeaways
Here are some quick hits on recent news from Facebook and Yahoo, as well as a post mortem on the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Google vs. Facebook, Yahoo: Diverging approaches to growing the mobile advertising business I recently wrote about Google’s latest earnings announcement – you can read it here – and mentioned both the […]
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