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So annoying that it actually takes you out of the scene. I don’t care about product placement. I do care when a product is shoved in your face blatantly during the show and serves as an advert.

Prediction. Chome App Store renamed to Play Chrome. Proper web apps come to Android using a similar HTML framework and can also work on Chrome in general of course.

Maybe.

Kingdom Of Amalur wasn’t actually that bad. I definitely liked the art style and some of what they were trying to. But in the end it released at the wrong time.

The Skyrim community was/is still at large and were/are generating a lot of buzz. Skyrim itself was hugely popular with enough content for people to not see any other reason to buy another. The possibilities were even bigger on the PC side with all the modding tools.

Then on the flipside Dark Souls was also out and gaining attraction due to how hard it is and then to make matters worse The Witcher 2 came onto consoles effectively shutting out Kingdom Of Amalur from gaining any real traction. And thats not even mentioning all the other games that have been released to.

This viral search engine sounds very intriguing. It may not be a challenge to Google in some ways but in others I think it could.

Well this is something new.

Not Internet Marketers. That is an actual term for an actual part of the marketing profession which does not obviously involve scamming.

Of course they call themselves that they want to create the illusion they are authentic, which of course they are not. By calling them that in the article all you do is reinforce the ridiculous notion. I would call them what they are. Scammers.

Also interesting that they hardly even use Internet Market techniques. They also seem to be using Database and Direct Marketing techniques at the least. And Public Relations for that matter.

Wtf Verge. Please don’t call this Internet Marketing, it shows a complete lack of knowledge on the subject. Internet Market =/= Scamming. If you are going to inform people on the world of scamming don’t use terms that reflect practices that actual marketers/advertisers/practitioners use. It is just like any marketing practice and totally legitimate.

Very true. I think for brands to survive they need to recognise the need to cautiously approach these communities and offer them something in exchange for taking up their time. Not plaster their ‘spaces’ with adverts they don’t want. I definitely agree with the direction. Infact I am going to be doing my Masters disso on it so will be interesting to see how that goes.

Ironically for Google, I think if they could utilise Social Circles to do for people on a social/individual level what they did to the web as a whole they may be able to survive. But they probably wont.

I think Facebook needs to focus on timeline and cut the other carp. Generalised Social Networking platforms have come and gone. People don’t build friendships, groups or communities like that in real life and they don’t want to on the net. People like seperate networks for seperate interests.

The problem is old school marketers are telling both the social networks and the interested companies to advertise the hell out of them to make money. It wont work long term.

Instead of just selling ads, instead companies should be looking at what these networks do for them and in turn the social networks should sell them access. I am not talking privacy breaking access but experiential access. The ability to talk to those communities and build relationships and do a multitude of cool things. Sadly at present this is seen as to long term and against what the old guard know.

All in all social networks should charge for access to their communities and not plaster them with ads, turning them into billboards where people can also create/curate content.

Not be long till it can just be sideloaded to other phones. An inconvenience for sure but not that much of problem

Not 24/7 they just use the term because it is familiar. The ‘channels’ deliver regular content of good quality (at the least the ones I watch do).

I wish they gave content providers ‘hubs’ and then they could have different channels within this hub for their various content.

True. Although if the home brew community gets hold of the Wii U I wouldn’t be surprised if even needed the models.

I would enjoy the Kinect more if you could scan things into a game. I.know they had the demo with the skate board but it would be cool if it really could do it

Looks like they took the idea of Skylanders and made it something any game designer could possibly implement.

Yeah when I saw that part of the demo I was thinking ‘go on…’ then nothing.