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Really bad and sad news about Paul Hunter, he was only 27 and had just become a dad, should have known things were very serious when his ranking was frozen earlier this year, that's an unusual move, though we really thought and hoped he'd recover.
Also fairly bad news from East Asia, indeed how do you solve a problem like Korea?
Also my interview went quite well I think, afterwards I met Clare for a fairly rubbish lunch in a pub near her work, then I bumped into a friend in the park on the way home:![](\"http://static.flickr.com/117/265115501_93ce9feb94.jpg\")
Bizarre one about Google buying YouTube, for about eight hundred million pounds... They've only been going less than two years I think, so even if the rumours were true about them spending a million dollars a day in bandidth costs for all of that time, they're still in profit. And they've had some investment in the mean time. Why did Google not buy popex? Seems someone's filling the gap left by popex's departure:
PRESS RELEASE | Official UK Charts Company to launch Fantasy Music Manager game
> Record industry vies for slice of booming interactive gaming market.
London, October 9 2006, 11.30am | The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) is to launch a new internet-based game which applies the successful Fantasy Football Manager formula to the fast-paced world of the UK music charts and offers £40,000 in prizes and tickets to The BRITs 2007.
The OCC - which is co-owned by the British recorded music trade association the BPI and the Entertainment Retailers Association - has linked up with commercial marketing agency Why Not! to create a Fantasy Music Manager game which will run over the eight weeks up to Christmas, culminating with the Christmas Number One.
The game, which allows players to select a roster of artists who then perform based on their week-by-week performance in the charts, is sponsored by Xbox 360 and will be promoted to a potential audience of 8.5m people through tie-ups with commercial radio's Hit 40 UK, games site Freeloader.com and youth web portal Xtaster amongst others.
The OCC says that music adds a new twist to the fast-growing £10m market for fantasy gaming.
Bah. Anyone here remember popex? On the upside, if yesterday's meeting went as well as I think, I will be working on an all new game soon... Up early and online again for another interview, they're coming thick and fast now, more later this week too.
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The strangest thing about Google buying YouTube is that Google have basically admitted that Google Video can't compete with YouTube. I assuming the logic behind it is that if they didn't buy it, someone else would and then Google Video would be left out in the cold completely.
YT's only been up for 18 months. Hmm, maybe I should set up some kind of revolutionary website. I'll put it on my To Do list.
10 Oct :: 2006 :: Comment / reply
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You have to be pretty confident to spunk away hundreds of millions of dollars before you have a buyer lined up though...
Maybe Google are just going to shut it down?
10 Oct :: 2006 :: Comment / reply
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In some news story or other it said it had been financed using credit cards. What credit card companies were giving them that kind of cash!
I can't see Google shutting it down, though the whole social networking thing is still relativally new (as a phenomenon, anyway). They may have just paid nearly $2bn for something that will be yesterday's news in a year. That would be quite funny.
10 Oct :: 2006 :: Comment / reply
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it was financed mainly by Sequoia, the venture capital firm. Previous investments for them included Apple, Paypal, Cisco and ironically Google itself. They put $11m in, which gave them around 30% of the equity. Plus those rumours of spending $1m a day on bandwidth were just that - rumours - and way off the mark.
16 Oct :: 2006 :: Comment / reply
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clearly you were a giant before your time!
mOOMINTRUDE :: 10 Oct :: 2006 :: Comment / reply
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Zombie squirrel, like it.
Yep. Shame no-one was willing to make the same kind of investment in popex. Perhaps you should suggest to Google that they buy the rights from Channelfly & hire you as head programmer (host the code on a decent machine).. Do you think the allure of cold hard cash could generate enough ad revenue to make it sufficiently profitable?
just a thought.
That OCC game is £5 to play
10 Oct :: 2006 :: Comment / reply
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OOF! Pay to play, I never thought it would work... maybe it will, with enough marketing spend behind it.
