http://news.muzui.com Never trust a computer you can't have in your pocket... Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:00:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just went through the latest Muzui stats and I must admit, I was impressed: - 7.8 million mobile downloads - 9.2 average plays on each mobile game - amounting to 71.7 million plays all in all In that respect, I also did some research on how mobile ads did on gaming platforms. I ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/04/crunching-the-numbers/ Berlin, April 3rd, 2009 – Red Herring announced that Muzui was named a WINNER of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year. “During a difficult year, Red Herring still received an ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/04/muzui-part-of-the-red-herring-100-winners/ Only one out of ten mobile games titles becomes profitable, due to the high development costs and the greedy publishers and operators. Consequently, not even the best mobile games make a profit. Fishlabs express some of the frustration that most indie-developers feel: Fishlabs led the international charts for the best mobile games in ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/03/3-reasons-gameloft-will-fall-and-the-indies-will-rise/ A couple of weeks ago, one of our most anticipated indie games emerged to the surface after a year in silence. The name of the game is Fez and it's Kokoromi, a small Montreal-based team working their magic. To celebrate the news, I pulled out an old "just-for-the-thrills-pseudo-3D-Fez-tribute" starring Andy's ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/02/fez-is-back/ For a while now, the three brothers, have discussed Twitter and its succes quite vividly. We all like Twitter and we use it ourselves to publish thoughts and links. So as users we see the obvious benefits of the service. But, and there is always a but, we also see ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/02/gathered-thoughts-on-twitter/ Everybody's talking about search engine optimization (SEO) as a key ingredient in the marketing mix, during the financial crisis. If SEO was important before the crisis, it's even more critical, when advertising revenues are decreasing and marketing budgets are reduced. But what happens when everybody seeks this Holy Grail? SEO is ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/02/why-black-hat-seo-will-explode-in-2009/ “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci We're Web 2.0 fanatics/geeks - we admire the simple innovations. Yesterday, David stumbled upon a site called 25lines.com that promulgates simplicity. The idea is this: Create whatever you want in 25 lines of code. Just code. No library assets, nothing loaded in. Just code. This requires ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/02/25-lines-of-code-and-magic-happens/ We LOVE Japan! The culture is booming with interesting stuff online and offline. We get inspired by Takashi Murakami's contemporary art. Our day is incomplete without a sushi snack. And we think Shichinin no samurai is the coolest film titel in the world. Naturally, Muzui in itself is hugely inspired by Japan: It's short for ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/02/in-the-mood-for-some-japanese/ Seth Godin, marketing guru, entrepreneur extraordinaire, action figure and perhaps a bit overhyped, has come up with seven pieces of advice in the financial crisis. For the people, who don't know Godin, he came up with permission marketing where the audience opt in to your marketing ploys. He holds that ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/02/seth-godins-seven-pieces-of-advice-for-start-ups-in-the-downturn/ We're disciples of Wordpress. It's the epitome of the Web 2.0 culture that we love: Simple, user-friendly, search engine optimised, and open-source. Even big blogs that can afford to develop their own platform opt to use Wordpress. Michael Arrington even proclaimed Wordpress as one of the things he couldn't live without in ... http://news.muzui.com/2009/02/our-top-5-wordpress-plugins/