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Quick post on a subject I’m following quite intently; Zynga’s IPO. While I already wrote that I think the social gaming companies are overvalued based on my experience in the gaming market; now some Wall Street analysts sheds his light on it.

A similar social gaming company, Nexon, went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a pre-trading market capitalization of $7 billion, although it closed the day down about 3 percent off its IPO price. The Asian online gaming giant raised $1.2 billion and it made net income of $260.1 million, up 14 percent, on revenue of $853.5 million, up 26.5 percent, for the nine months ended Sept. 30. By contrast, Zynga made a paltry $30.7 million on revenue of $828.9 million for the nine months ended Sept. 30.

Read the full article on VentureBeat

I keep struggling in sticking to what I set out to do; blog on a daily basis. Even for work (my company De Merkelijkheid) we can’t seem to manage even once a week. Still thinking it’s neccesary so will start working on it soon enough

And I’m not just talking about the Nike slogan, even though it’s probably one of the best and most fitting slogans out there. I’m talking about the fact that if we, and myself in particular, would stop whining and do something about [it] anything could happen. Just Do It! Or through the quote that inspired this realization:

Blame no one.
Expect nothing.
Do something.
- Bill Parcells

Slashfilm.com’s Kees van Dijkhuizen made a nice montage of clips from Guy Ritchie’s movies. It’s like a trailer for a director.

[the films of] Guy Ritchie from Kees van Dijkhuizen jr. on Vimeo.

Or go directly to the post on slashfilm

Or at least this is what link shortener Bit.ly is telling us. Darren Rowse shared this on Google+ and it really peaked my interest:

In general, the half life of a bitly link is about 3 hours, unless you publish your links on youtube, where you can expect about 7 hours worth of attention. Many links last a lot less than 2 hours; other more sticky links last longer than 11 hours over all the referrers. This leads us to believe that the lifespan of your link is connected more to what content it points to than on where you post it: on the social web it’s all about what you share, not where you share it!

Full article on the bit.ly blog

Wired recently discussed the future of Amazon and puts it in an industry-wide perspective:

Amazon has swiftly become the most disruptive company in the media and technology industries. Its potential in this space is simply off the charts: bigger than Apple’s, bigger than Google’s or Microsoft’s. It’s becoming a purer version of all three.

If you are in any way interested in this market, read the article!

Just a quick statistic of the most recent Major League Gaming event in Raleigh, N.C. that drew more than 130,000 subscribers. We all know I’ve been active in organizing gaming events for quite some years, but it’s numbers like this that would’ve gotten me the investments I needed.

It also puts MLG CEO DiGiavanni in a great mood:

“This year is the final year in the proof-of-concept phase for e-sports. There’s a strong appetite for the flavor of e-sports that we do and the power has shifted to the audience for consumer based products and membership.”

Full article on VentureBeat