Are video games art? Maybe Web games are.
Game’s creator here.
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Where’s the money saved in renting online?
I have often pondered as Seth Godin did why more money isn’t saved by the consumer when they choose to make a purchase online rather than in a physical store.
When you purchase an item online rather than in a store, you could argue that you are saving the company the expense of stocking the item and hiring an employee to check you out and bag the item. If you are already covering the cost of shipping, shouldn’t there be more savings?
The same goes for online rentals. In reality, it’s just a file server spitting out the file to you, so why pay as much as you do a service like Blockbuster–or even Netflix–who stocks and distributes a physical copy of the media from a staffed distribution center? Even counting costs associated with producing and serving the file over the Internet and rights payments, Apple has to be making more money off each rental than Blockbuster.
Is Apple just trying to prevent a complete breakdown of the rental industry by pricing their rental service close to what is actually charged by Blockbuster or are they simply looking to make as much money as possible while they can?
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See how you rank: List of the top 1000 blogs
Bloglines has put together a list of the top 1000 blogs. I had no idea how some that I read regularly ranked among the world’s best. Check it out and see where your blog or the bloggers you admire ranked.
For one, I didn’t realize that Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick was as highly read as it is–ranking it at 114–or that the Dilbert blog feed was ranked so high–number 2.
Interesting to check out. Add some links if you want to fill up your feed reader.
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