Congratulations to Jason & the Aurora Feint crew on launching OpenFeint X - the coolest thing since sliced awesome! Now you can build free-to-play iPhone games just like the ones on Facebook with virtual goods, micro-transactions, millions of players and all that stuff! Aurora Feint rocks the iPhone games market once again. If you are a game developer – don’t be a looser ! Integrate OpenFeint now & get that Xbox-live experience in your iPhone game + million of users. Nuff said. Disclaimer: I’m an advisor.
Next week I’m off to Beijing for my first board meeting with P1 which shall be really exciting and then I’m straight off to the Annual Meeting of the Champions 2009 also called ”Summer Davos” in Dalian, China. If you’re going to be at the event and want to meet up please ping me.
- What are the pros and cons of an apps only strategy?
- What are the best practices around a hybrid website/app approach?
- And, is there still such a thing as a website only strategy?
This and many other questions will be discussed at the Consumer Web – User Acquisition in the Era of App Platforms panel that David Hornik, August Capital, Jason Oberfest, MySpace, Rashmi Sinha, Slide and myself will participate in moderated by Dave McClure, Founders Fond this Friday at TieCon 2009.
What do you think? What is your take on the above questions?
Rebecca Fannin have just published her book "Silicon Dragon – How China is winning the tech race". I was interview by Rebecca a year ago on my role in Maxthon. Now the story is out – with some great quotes from my buddies Morten Lund and Bill Tai as well as Maxthon founder Jeff Chen. The book is a very interesting and entertaining read on Chinese entrepreneurship – believe me it is like nothing else…My claim to fame in this book is :
Jacobsson’s skip to Facebook is symbolic. He is one of the first tech entrepreneurs to leap from a Chinese to an American start-up, as sign of the growing stature of made-in-China technology..
Although I really didn’t have time to go Jeff Pulver’s Facebook party given my new job, new child and relocation errands, I’m glad that I stepped by. Letting your Facebook friends connect with each other over free drinks is definitely a great idea. Everyone was wearing stickers with their name, company and tagline. Anyway, I made some new acquaintances and had a chance to catch up with some old friends. Kudos to Jeff for inviting me and for the great idea. I wonder if there are any other Facebook networking events like this around the world? (In the picture Jeff, me and Ouriel).
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The registration for the fabulous Le Web 3 ’07 fourth edition and preliminary program taking place in Paris on Dec 11-12 has opened.
If you are only going to attend one web related event in Europe this year – this is the one!
Last year when I was visiting Hong Kong and met with the Simon Lee & the guys at Bullpoo, they complained that there where not enough web entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. And if there were, they were not aware of each other. I then suggested that the meet up with a few people I had been in contact with and start meeting informally for drinks once a month. Guess what? Today Simon tells me over Skype that the initiative I started have just resulted in the fourth Hong Kong Web Start up Meet up, and they were almost 200! Amazing!
EditGrid hosted the last meetup, Yahoo HK have started to show-up and Catharina Maracke from Creative Commons was there as well. I am really excited about the fact that it was started on my initiative and in one year has grown to such an extent. There is nothing more gratifying than being able to help and connect people with each other.
And of course, what event/group can be taken seriously if they don’t have their own Facebook group? Join HK Web 2.0 on Facebook here.
I for sure will come by next time I have an opportunity to join the meetup. Good luck – and thanks Simon for sharing the story.
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