tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320265432012-01-25T16:32:44.716-08:00Life will break you...and when it does...you will come back stronger where you were broken...and wiser for the experience. | "Hemingway""beChange" = if you want to see it...be it!http://www.blogger.com/profile/00320185434638986586noreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32026543.post-66333553177196017012010-01-13T15:32:00.000-08:002010-01-13T15:42:32.586-08:00

I don't buy things from 'da man!' A commercial, billboard, bumper sticker, banner ad, paid or sponsored link has never recommended a darn thing that I have bought. I do not trust marketing...I trust my friends! Friends tell the truth...and mass marketing is often over-hyped lies. If you do not believe me, as any marketing exec who finds herself at a company with poor product development...and

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Q. Why is SAS70 Type 2 Certification Important (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS70) A. SAS70 indicates professional standards have been used by a service auditor to assess the internal controls of the service organization. In a practical use case scenario, when you are audited, if your service provider is NOT SAS70, you will then have to pay your auditors the roughly $10k to audit each service

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There are four levels of PCI Compliance. Level I is the highest standard. Levels III & IV are self audits and should trigger serious red flags within your organization, as there is zero accountability. Why choosing a PCI Level I supplier saves money and limits risk! -       Liability: using a PCI Level I provider means that you absolve yourself from all liability as it pertains to the storage

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Publishers that wish to monetize around a strategy for the sale and management of virtual items need to understand the relationship of PCI Compliance on the e-Wallet, and what it means to STORE credit card data at the ACCOUNT level for e-Wallet purchases and one-click-buying (spontaneous buying) either 'in or out-of-game.'When discussing an e-Wallet capability, gamers must have their form of

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A.      eWallet – the ability to have an account with stored value of virtual currency or cash a.       Account management capability 1.       User has a balance of virtual units from which to credit through purchase 2.        Credit through XP (experience points) 3.       Credit through unique Offers/Promotions/PIN codes 4.       Decrement through purchase 5.       Decrement via expiration

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e-Wallet functionality - functional elements that are either directly related to an e-Wallet, or required as part of the supporting structure to fulfill the business need ; 1.       Account Management Capability a.       At the individual user level b.      Includes self service portal for users c.       Includes a summary of purchases by game type d.      Ability to add/subtract value by

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My game Clients are SMART PEOPLE!! 90%+ of them are exploring the sale and management of virtual assets. This includes e-Wallet (covered in a separate post) functionality, PCI Level I Compliance and why you need it (again, separate post) for your virtual world and more. I am really lucky because I get to talk to dozens of publishers every year about their plans, so I get to explore lots of cool

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Let me start by saying, meeting folks like Ken Kutaragi (founder of Play Station), Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) and Joe DiMaggio (wow...JOE Effing DiMaggio...DUH) are moments that I have cherished. I have been around a fair few celebrities growing up, not because I am anything important...but because friends of mine have been around those types (read as Bill Cosby, Debbie Reynolds, Sammy

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pondering how ones excitement and enthusiasm for work can trump the need for sleep...

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beautiful sunrise...great dinner w/ rocking people last night...long weekend ahead...life is good!

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buried from recent shows...loving his job...and squeezing in the book 'The Dragon and the Foreign Devils' (China 1100 BC to present) in 10 min stints

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buried under post-show-activities...and at least hit the weights!

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Starbucks, balcony, book, marina...a good start to the day

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is one more meeting away from departing for home!

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is sideways with fatigue w/ eyes that feel very gritty!

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at gStar in Seoul - if you are here, my Seoul cell # is: +81 010 6884 0260

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up all night catching up on email after an apocalyptic meltdown of technology

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getting ready for gStar in Seoul, Korea

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A bit of background regarding PCI compliance - as credit card use has become more widespread both offline and online, and as consumer concern about security has understandably grown, the credit card industries have made an effort to ensure that sensitive information is protected. To that end, in September 2006, the major credit card companies (American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB,

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A prospect came up with some interesting promotion code expiration uses the other day, so I figured I’d jot down how many ways you would want to be able to expire codes. Here’s the list as of this posting date: - Date (”expire on 12/31/2010″) - Number of Uses (”expire after 200 signups”) - Activity (”When an in game event happens, send an API call to expire the code”) - Combination of ways (”

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What products did we quickly grow to love and why? Southwest Airlines (online transparency and logic). They made their pricing transparent and easy to understand. If a round trip flight was $200, then the one way flight was…drum roll please…$100. That was the beginning of being transparent. Anyone could see and understand the pricing, and because it made sense it also built TRUST. As the online

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Only 30% of Europeans pay with credit / debit cards! You can quickly do some online research and you’ll find that between 29-31% of EU citizens use credit / debit cards and instead prefer ‘localized payment methods. ‘Localized payment methods drive international eCommerce! By enabling the online Guest to pay with their payment mechanism…online conversion is improved and site retention benefits.

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I always say to my friends that the minute I sound like I am making sense or know what I am saying, please hit the pause button cuz I’m not the sharpest guy you’ll meet. Having said that…let’s look at the trend in US gaming that seems to be trailing and copying Asia, EU and Eastern EU. Fully 80%+ of game publishers are exploring monetizing their games via in game currencies and commerce. A

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I love this town in Italia! Go Lets a Modoletz! This was my final season in Italia and my friends from Castions della Mura Bagnaria Arsa are to be remembered with fondness always! If you look closely, you can see the baseball diamond...which was so beautiful that we hosted the European Championships for the kids...and a scout from the Tigers took pics as he'd never seen such beauty.Hand painted

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Social Gaming Summit: Monetization and Business Models for Social GamesMy laptop battery had already died, but the final panel at the Social Gaming Summit on monetizing social games was too good to not take some notes. David Perry, CCO, Acclaim, who's been putting together a hefty tome cataloging, if I remember right, as many possibilities for gaming as possible, noted that there are 22 ways to

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This guest post is written by Susan Wu, a Principal with Charles River Ventures, where she focuses on digital media, software, and infrastructure. Susan is coproducing the Virtual Goods Summit this Friday at Stanford University - most of the companies mentioned below will be presenting.People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every year. Pets, coins, avatars, and bling: these virtual

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My name is Steve Williams, and I am a MMO gamer and also a casual gamer. Give me an MMO, and I’ll play it. Give me a simple Flash game and I’ll play it. Wouldn’t it be fun if someone could mix the two flavors together and make a peanut butter cup of gameplay that would satisfy both MMO fun and casual fun? advertisement So let’s talk about what mini-games are doing in a self-respecting MMO like

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TODAY'S COMMENTARY by Jack Myers #151Thursday, December 28th 2006Jack Myers Media Business ReportCLASSIC JACK: Memo from Leo BurnettThe commentary below was written by Jack Myers in 1991 and is re-published here as both a retrospective as well as an opportunity to assess your current approaches to a radically changing business environment.Originally published in 1991.In light of the challenges to

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I believe that everyone feels alone or questions themselves from time-to-time. When it gets bad, it is akin to losing one's MoJo...where you doubt your instincts and find a bit of paralysis-by-analysis setting in.In baseball it manifests itself as a slump. Pretty soon you are standing at the plate and the ball looks really small...almost like a BB. And because the ball appears so impossibly small

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I got a note today from one of my Jewish friends today telling me all the good things one can do on Christmas if one is Jewish. What I loved about the note is that it was both a reminder that we live in a world where what is commonplace to one (Christmas) isn't nearly so to another (my Jewish friends). And it also was uplifting, as it mentions different organizations where the Jewish workers will

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TO THE BASEBALL FIELD After meeting Suzanna Zanolli and negotiating our mutually beneficial contract...her translation skills for 'making conversation' - we were ready to get a job playing baseball in Italy! The problem was that Laerte (Baseball Federation President) didn't really want to talk via a translator. In fact, once I returned with Suzanna in tow it wasn't more than a few minutes before

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ARRIVING IN VERONA, ITALY to PLAY BASEBALLOn the train from Milano to Verona I found myself being suddenly freaked out. My family-heritage-enthusiasm was starting to leave me...and self doubt started to pop up. In moments like this...and in my lifetime I had plenty...I did what I was taught to do on the baseball diamond...stick to the fundamentals and don't try to do too much! So I took a deep

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Living in Italy is Magical! Living in Italy and playing baseball is even better...Italy is full of all the usual things you have heard/read so much about - cobblestone streets, architecture, food, wine, art, history, beautiful people, gorgeous English teachers at German Schools, hand made masterpieces, gorgeous cars, siestas, loving families and talking with ones hands. What you almost never hear

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Baseball has a rhythm and pace that is like life and unlike any other sport.Baseball doesn’t have a time clock…the game unwinds in an unhurried, meandering pace that is unique and beholden to no one...in its own time. The game progresses at times to appear like an eternity and yet frantic in its final moments…just like life.Baseball is the hardest sport on the planet when one considers these

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All the 'sayings' that I heard growing up are turning out to be true, but not as a reflection or condemnation upon society or others...but rather simply through self experience. 'Youth is wasted on the young,' does not demean the value of our youth (of any generation), but rather suggests how we could have benefited if we had had wisdom when we were young. I remember stories. I tend to learn

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Racing virtually side-by-side in some instances, doing approximately 80 mph through these turns!Cars such as this are not an uncommon sight.The restaurant deck (background) is an excellent spot to see the cars before they begin. We ended up parked on the track because of an accident that stopped the drivers for a bit.Mini Coopers of all years and modifications routinely show their bonnets...There

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For anyone who has ever wanted to see exactly how good of a driver they are, there is no better place than 'The Loop' at Nurburgring. My first trip to the Loop was nothing short of amazing! I have bungee jumped, skydived, boxed and scuba dived with sharks without getting overly anxious or excited. In fact, I remember as I was getting ready to jump out of a 'perfectly good airplane,' thinking

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What is it that makes people afraid to talk to strangers? I think one obstacle may that people don't now how to 'disengage' if they don't want to talk further. I have found a polite, 'gotta go now...good talking to you' works just fine! After all, it IS OK to disengage. I think just knowing that makes it easier.Also, it seems that people are suspicious...as in, 'what do you want from me.' I

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There are parts of every country that embody a feeling of caring and welcoming attitude from the citizens. Cologne is like this. Cologne is a city full of open, caring people, and a wonderful place to conduct business.Cologne is the home of ClickandBuy LLC, which is a very progressive player monetizing digital assets, and full of really bright and caring folks. There's a fantastic company culture

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