Posted on April 25th, 2008 in Interesting

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“To some extent, it’s no surprise that Def Jam would recognize this as a direction to go in: we pointed out in the past how a bunch of hip hop music execs were way ahead of the curve in recognizing new business models where the music itself is part of the promotion for something else.”

Inspiration for future JFM product logos. [thx kottke]

“Imagine a combination of Space Invaders and Pokémon. You play Space Invaders but the Invaders are being randomly generated. As soon as an unknown Invader appears, you can choose to ‘adopt’ it.”

“Real customers who use their own money to pay for your products seem like a much better, much more real confirmation that you’re doing something right than getting pegged by a VC using other people’s money to fish for 1-in-10 chances of a monster trout.”

“As an entrepreneur, probably 2 days out of 3 are better than they would be if I had a real job.” (Note: for me it’s 3 out of 3.)

“Plenty of companies are making the shift from video games to virtual worlds. Knowledge Adventure is the latest as it announced today it has raised $5 million in a second round of funding to shift its focus from educational software to 3-D virtual worlds for kids.”

Moving Donkey Kong Made of Lego. Srsly!

“With the experiment, Kadokawa is betting it can score points with the anime faithful and win over new fans overseas where it might sell DVDs, downloads, and other paraphernalia. But there’s no guarantee the goodwill will pay off.”

“The code you check-in during your 14th hour at your desk will not be as good as what you checked in during your 4th.”

Retro Olympic logo tees.

“Despite the media’s anxiety about fallen female executives, women are actually advancing in high technology.”

I haven’t decided whether it’s sexist yet, but the game looks cool.

“Alfred Mosher Butts died in 1993, meaning that under current law, Scrabble will be protected under copyright until 2063. And yet, if Scrabble was treated under the copyright law it was initially published under, it would have come out of copyright in 1994.”

“Star Trek Online universe. From the looks of things the Federation is a force to be reckoned with.”

Giraffe Labs (now in our old office space next door) gets some local press. (What… no mention of us as the first tech folks in the building??? )

“Players will be given the option of creating a good or evil character in DCUO, each with a possible dozen unique characteristics, such as power type (ice, fire, mental, sonic), power source (ring, elemental), and movement type (flying, speed).”

“Most Internet entrepreneurs and their funders are identical to real-estate speculators…”

“Without promotion, the shows are getting fewer than 10,000 views, no better than when we last checked in on the series, after nine episodes. Assuming that Cook’s publisher Penguin and the sponsor Dodge are paying the production costs for “Foreign Body,” which run $10,000 an episode, they’re paying a $400 CPM–pretty high, by anyone’s standard.”

“GM, historically among the nation’s top two advertisers, dropped to fourth last year with estimated measured and unmeasured ad spending of $3 billion, according to Ad Age estimates. Of that, $2 billion was measured media, including $197 million for online ads…”

Awesome illustrated maps from Katherine Baxter.

Cool retro gif animations.

Fonts as people.

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