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World of Goo: Pay-What-You-Want Birthday Sale Results

via 2dboy.com

I kept this one in Instapaper for a while. 2D Boy came to the iPhone news arena with the announcement that they are developing a app of their award winning and massively fun 'World of Goo'.

This article posted in the studio's blog explains the result of their Happy Birthday sale, were you could buy the game paying pretty much whatever you wanted. Similar to Radiohead's album download scheme. http://bit.ly/1UZaJA

The graphics include info about price paid, sales timeline and even a poll about desired price and price paid. Everything has good comment about profitability, owner's cut and issues with the server.

This reminds me of this tweet from last week:

appfreak I got @2dboy World of Goo in their "pay whatever you think it's worth" week http://2dboy.com/games.php
7 days ago from Tweetie

If you haven't done yet, I suggest you grab a copy while you can!

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Filed under  //  analysis   dev   external   games   iphone   new media   trends  
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Posted 4 months ago

Fake iPhone nano updated: A lesson learned

 

This made the news for a day some time ago. The little iPhone nano. Yesterday after the keynote I remembered about it. 
via flickr.com

In the past December all the hype was with the "imminent release" iPhone nano. I was on vacation in Spain and spotted what appeared to be a chunky iPhone. It was indeed a knock-off of the iPhone with less functions (other than the obvious). There was something remarkable about this cheap fake in the middle of that bazaar. This iPhone was tiny! I even wanted to buy it ;)

I took this picture, submitted it to flickr and send the link to several rumor sites and blogs. I thought it could be funny how this picture would be relevant with the current Google Trends. Here is a graphic where you can see the impressive increase in the second week of December. Notice that this indicates the search of "iphone nano" and not "iphone" alone.

After New Year's Eve I checked my flickr visits and I could not believe it. The picture appeared linked at the end of a MacRumors articles, the picture was used in forums and blogs for illustration purposes.
In black my flickr stats for the same period. It peaks on the 30th with 8.000 views on that day. Google's graph is not to scale, but it is only made to spot that one week of high interest. I believe the first days is when I put the word out, and later on is through referencing. 

I'm posting this to hope that I can share this kind of interesting stuff and if possible help some people out there. A lesson learned.

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Posted 4 months ago

TV tomorrow - Youtube plays before hitting play

I saw this in YouTube's main page. Youtube plays before hitting play button, which mimics the TV commercials: I know they are being played in the middle of Heroes, so I don't really watch them. I know they're there. The sponsored movie would play in the background with the play button and the text "Replay With Sound"

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Posted 4 months ago