The latest from the great mind of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich.
Has Facebook gone too far this time?
Like others among Facebook’s 400 million members, I’m awed and dazzled by the sheer power and growing grandeur of the site. But I’m also perplexed by the almost cavalier way in which it has approached the topic of privacy, as if privacy were a remnant of a bygone era. (Is this partly the byproduct of having a 26-year-old CEO — who grew up in an era where sharing trumps privacy — at the helm? I suspect so.)
Social Gaming Summit: How social can casual games get?
While successful, casual games are not known for being as social as true ‘social games’ Before there were lucrative games on Facebook, casual games have done very well existing on their own sites and on game portals. The casual game market paved the way for the social gaming market. Problem is, beyond a leader board […]
Social Gaming Summit: Playing the distribution game
Is viral the only economically feasible way to distribute a social game? No, answered a panel of four game developers and publishers at the Social Gaming Summit in San Francisco which should have been called the “Facebook” gaming summit. Every time someone mentioned “social” gaming, someone asked the question, “Are you being social anywhere else?” […]
Social media: Increasing access to public meetings
Social media increases accessibility to public meetings from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘m at NewComm Forum this week, probably the best gathering of minds around social media, marketing and new media anywhere. (I’ll be speaking Friday about the future of journalism.) It’s also a superlative venue for networking. Last year I met Kathleen Clark of […]