An article from Kotaku outlines some interesting things that have leaked about the new Microsoft gaming consul code named "Durango" like that Dodge Durango, or the animated movie "Durango". Either way it's a working title and hopefully they don't use it in real life.
The new xbox consul is supposedly going to have blu-ray(about time) and have all sorts of intuitive motion features in the controllers. Also able to connect with mobile devices in a given area and probably for a fee perform a lobotomy and fly a spaceship. All great things, the article says that the new Kinect will be able to tell if your happy, or angry or-wait, wtf? Yeah I didn't believe it either, so here is the article (kotaku - Durango) read it and be afraid very afraid. The best part of this new Kinect is not the facial recognition tech, or how many people the Kinect can read in a room. The best part is the part where Microsoft is considering charging people based on how many bodies are in a room. Again, what the every-loving-foook.
If Microsoft initiates some system with xbox live or whatever that charges people for playing games, and people who are simply in the room watching people play games. Well, not only will I never buy anything related to xbox ever. I would have serious issues with how much information xbox has about my person. How is this new "Mandatory" Kinect device any different than the full body scanners in airports. Oh wait! TSA does not charge you a fee for how many of your friends watch you walk through the scanner!
The best part of this article is how the writer is super concerned with letting the readers know how cool it is that he has a "Secret Source". It's like he's got "Deep $#@&" on speed dial and he has all of the awesome secrets from Sony and Microsoft. Great! Now we are gonna get charged up the arse for a feature that a ton of people in the responses to the article where less that happy about. Way to pay f'n attention.
MICROSOFT WANTS TO CHARGE US FOR THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE USING THE SYSTEM! AAAAAAAARRRGH!
Yeah, so maybe am to pissed about this, maybe it will be less than what it seams, maybe it will make sense. Too bad none of this is covered in the article, to bad who ever wrote this only gives a shite about specs that are likely to change a ton before the release. Oh wait, I am sure that "Deep Dish" will keep Kotaku totally in the loop. That, and their other "Reliable sources". Which of course begs the question; why not just relay the reliable sources info?
The facial recognition stuff is kind of scary also. I guess it's just a matter of time till google+, and facebook have you log in with you face through your tv.....I am so sorry "Party Member" George Orwell just told me to shut the 1984 up.
Kotaku interesting article, but fail on paying attention to important shit.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Facebook VS Google+ [Part 1]
Facebook has been on the financial news almost everyday. The story is constantly being recycled and it seems that every move that is made is being watched and analysed by industry experts. CNBC had Facebook in at least 3x different shows on one day, each show saying basically the same thing. The next day I watched Bloomberg and it was almost the same thing. I went on to web-sites and it was the same thing.
These guys have no idea what is happening.
Facebook is spending really close to there margins, but making revenue in terms of Ad/Sense optimization. They have a social network comfortably over 1 Billion strong, and blah, blah, blah. Don't worry I'll put in the link so you can read it. It's just one since they all say the same thing. No one saying anything strong for or against, everybody saying general "Safe" stuff.
Well I am gonna say it: Facebook, wake up or G+ is gonna kick your ass!
The bottom line is Facebook to the consumer looks almost identical to Myspace just before Myspace had 3 catastrophic issue's all at once. No one at Myspace saw those issue's because social networking was barely in our vocabulary. CEO,COO, CFO at Facebook all know better. At least they should.
"Facebook has maximized it's Ad/Sense", in English this means that they have put a ton of spam on the site and it feels really congested at times. Also FB is a great place to play free games, and that has now turned for the worse. It has for the most part been when you play a game over a social network it's free but you can't do anything really fun unless you log in everyday and/or pay money. So we all got used to that, we now it's to the point where you can barely get ANYTHING done in some of these games without tons of pop up spam, and adds. If click on just about anything it takes to a window to use your Pay Pal or credit card. Which smacks of "greedy-shady-company". Guess what, Myspace did the same thing when they got into trouble, and we the people 1.4+/- billion of us left.
Paying for games on-line via digital download is the future, don't get me wrong. It's done a lot now and is just going to grow to be a set standard. BUT! There is a way to do this and a way not to do this. Planetside 2 is a game that is doing it right. Matt Higby is the creative director for Planetside 2 and he was on a podcast where he explained the right approach to this gaming mode. He basically said the free users act as content creators for the paying user. The things you pay for don't move you up as much as they give you options. So two players of equal skill if one is paying and the other a free customer can still be very competitive for each other in that environment.
Now here is the tuff part. Google, Google has been adding more and more and more options to there G+ product. Now with the exception of Twitter I can do everything I need to do from my Chrome window G+ account. I don't notice any spam, and it is there but very minor by comparison. The real thing is the network, it's not on G+ yet. A billion people is still a billion people. So Facebook is still the top dog, but they could be a dying sick dog by the end of the year if they don't start trying to actually compete with G+. You can't just say "I'm hiring between 3k and 4k new staff and we are gonna come up with some stuff" which is me paraphrasing poorly, Mark Zuckerberg. I want to hear him(Mark) say, "We see the direction that G+ and Yahoo(Y2) are going and we can do it better!", "BRING IT ON!". That is what I want to hear from him, that makes me feel like he knows what is going on in the market and is in the trenches. Instead what I see is that sad image of the IPO launch where he looks tired and in way over his head. Every time I log-in to FB, I get reminded of Myspace. I am just waiting for the day when no-body is on.
It's not over FB can pull a save and stay in the game, but I caution that Google ADDED social media, they where a great stock before that. Now they are just going to get steadily stronger. No matter what FB is gonna loose a % of there current customer base, for no other reason than that for business G+ is just easier and it doesn't feel like it's made for a 15yr old. (Yeah Myspace had that problem also)
Ok so a FB breakdown.
These guys have no idea what is happening.
Facebook is spending really close to there margins, but making revenue in terms of Ad/Sense optimization. They have a social network comfortably over 1 Billion strong, and blah, blah, blah. Don't worry I'll put in the link so you can read it. It's just one since they all say the same thing. No one saying anything strong for or against, everybody saying general "Safe" stuff.
Well I am gonna say it: Facebook, wake up or G+ is gonna kick your ass!
The bottom line is Facebook to the consumer looks almost identical to Myspace just before Myspace had 3 catastrophic issue's all at once. No one at Myspace saw those issue's because social networking was barely in our vocabulary. CEO,COO, CFO at Facebook all know better. At least they should.
"Facebook has maximized it's Ad/Sense", in English this means that they have put a ton of spam on the site and it feels really congested at times. Also FB is a great place to play free games, and that has now turned for the worse. It has for the most part been when you play a game over a social network it's free but you can't do anything really fun unless you log in everyday and/or pay money. So we all got used to that, we now it's to the point where you can barely get ANYTHING done in some of these games without tons of pop up spam, and adds. If click on just about anything it takes to a window to use your Pay Pal or credit card. Which smacks of "greedy-shady-company". Guess what, Myspace did the same thing when they got into trouble, and we the people 1.4+/- billion of us left.
Paying for games on-line via digital download is the future, don't get me wrong. It's done a lot now and is just going to grow to be a set standard. BUT! There is a way to do this and a way not to do this. Planetside 2 is a game that is doing it right. Matt Higby is the creative director for Planetside 2 and he was on a podcast where he explained the right approach to this gaming mode. He basically said the free users act as content creators for the paying user. The things you pay for don't move you up as much as they give you options. So two players of equal skill if one is paying and the other a free customer can still be very competitive for each other in that environment.
Now here is the tuff part. Google, Google has been adding more and more and more options to there G+ product. Now with the exception of Twitter I can do everything I need to do from my Chrome window G+ account. I don't notice any spam, and it is there but very minor by comparison. The real thing is the network, it's not on G+ yet. A billion people is still a billion people. So Facebook is still the top dog, but they could be a dying sick dog by the end of the year if they don't start trying to actually compete with G+. You can't just say "I'm hiring between 3k and 4k new staff and we are gonna come up with some stuff" which is me paraphrasing poorly, Mark Zuckerberg. I want to hear him(Mark) say, "We see the direction that G+ and Yahoo(Y2) are going and we can do it better!", "BRING IT ON!". That is what I want to hear from him, that makes me feel like he knows what is going on in the market and is in the trenches. Instead what I see is that sad image of the IPO launch where he looks tired and in way over his head. Every time I log-in to FB, I get reminded of Myspace. I am just waiting for the day when no-body is on.
It's not over FB can pull a save and stay in the game, but I caution that Google ADDED social media, they where a great stock before that. Now they are just going to get steadily stronger. No matter what FB is gonna loose a % of there current customer base, for no other reason than that for business G+ is just easier and it doesn't feel like it's made for a 15yr old. (Yeah Myspace had that problem also)
Ok so a FB breakdown.
- Too much Spam
- Gamification done poorly
- Does not seem to be a serious competitor
- Making Myspaces mistakes
- The CEO does not inspire confidence, I wanna believe.
My prediction Facebook does too little to late. They don't fall apart like Myspace did but G+ takes a huge chunk of the customer base away and the stock moves slow.
The article is from Bloomberg
Defining "Gamer"
So I was listening to a gamer pod cast today The Indoor Kids #81 on Nerdist [http://www.nerdist.com], and part way through the podcast I had to stop to take a phone call. Before starting it up again I took a glance at the comments and became very interested in the comments left by other listeners. I'll post a direct link at the end of the this post. Normally I listen to a podcast and write a review at the end but the best part of this podcast was for sure in the comments. Not so much a fan of the 46 seconds of intro music and people rambling on for minutes before introducing themselves. But I digress.
[I am currently putting together review criteria for what works for me in G.T.E.iN style podcasts. So to be clear, my personal criteria for how I decide whether a podcast works for me or not. ]
To sum up what the issue, the podcasters where attempting to define the word "Gamer". Some people got upset with their definition some didn't care some where upset that the podcast spent so much time talking about it. Below is my response which promted this post.
Gamer is a culture, and just like any culture their exist within the culture individual’s take on that given culture. The fact that it is more and more obscure the definition of the word “gamer” goes to prove this. Gamer is not what you call a person like “Geek” or “Nerd”. Gamer is a way of life that has as broad a definition as hunting, soccer, socialite, criminal, Nascar, Musician and so on. In the current collective conscious what is is to be a gamer is being redefined and growing beyond what any of us can accurately imagine or predict. What ever it ends up being the solid definition of the culture, part of that definition will be synonymous with change. Their are many types of musicians, a singer is not excluded from being a musician because they don’t use an object to create music. Just like a person who plays Warhammer 40k is part of the same culture as people who run guilds on World Of Warcraft or Big Team Battle on Halo 4. All are “Gamers’ just different parts of the culture.
This issue of definition seems to be popping up all over the place, forums, blogs, message boards, podcasts, even on G4 once or twice. Whether we like or not, a culture that is related to artists, scientists and entertainers has sprung up and is growing at a pace that is very difficult for the current social conscious to measure let alone define. As a small part of this movement I am endeavoring to understand and bring to you the reader as much of the experience as I can. I do not make any about the phrase
"Gamer" or claims of origin and ownership. I can only claim observation and participation. What ever the type of "Gamer" you are, however you define your part of the culture I hope that the revolution and the possibility of Golden Age of the Gamer is exciting to you as it is me. I can hardly wait to see what is next. Game More.
The exact conversation
http://www.nerdist.com/2013/01/the-indoor-kids-81-what-makes-you-a-gamer-with-jordan-morris/comment-page-1/#comment-105896
[I am currently putting together review criteria for what works for me in G.T.E.iN style podcasts. So to be clear, my personal criteria for how I decide whether a podcast works for me or not. ]
To sum up what the issue, the podcasters where attempting to define the word "Gamer". Some people got upset with their definition some didn't care some where upset that the podcast spent so much time talking about it. Below is my response which promted this post.
Gamer is a culture, and just like any culture their exist within the culture individual’s take on that given culture. The fact that it is more and more obscure the definition of the word “gamer” goes to prove this. Gamer is not what you call a person like “Geek” or “Nerd”. Gamer is a way of life that has as broad a definition as hunting, soccer, socialite, criminal, Nascar, Musician and so on. In the current collective conscious what is is to be a gamer is being redefined and growing beyond what any of us can accurately imagine or predict. What ever it ends up being the solid definition of the culture, part of that definition will be synonymous with change. Their are many types of musicians, a singer is not excluded from being a musician because they don’t use an object to create music. Just like a person who plays Warhammer 40k is part of the same culture as people who run guilds on World Of Warcraft or Big Team Battle on Halo 4. All are “Gamers’ just different parts of the culture.
This issue of definition seems to be popping up all over the place, forums, blogs, message boards, podcasts, even on G4 once or twice. Whether we like or not, a culture that is related to artists, scientists and entertainers has sprung up and is growing at a pace that is very difficult for the current social conscious to measure let alone define. As a small part of this movement I am endeavoring to understand and bring to you the reader as much of the experience as I can. I do not make any about the phrase
"Gamer" or claims of origin and ownership. I can only claim observation and participation. What ever the type of "Gamer" you are, however you define your part of the culture I hope that the revolution and the possibility of Golden Age of the Gamer is exciting to you as it is me. I can hardly wait to see what is next. Game More.
The exact conversation
http://www.nerdist.com/2013/01/the-indoor-kids-81-what-makes-you-a-gamer-with-jordan-morris/comment-page-1/#comment-105896
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