Sunday, December 23, 2007

The December Trip

I am just finishing now a one week business trip to the US, and as I wait for my flight back home, I thought I'd share with you some of my thoughts.

Anyway, in this trip we met with several virtual worlds operators in the purpose of cooperating with them on GamearraY's new (and still undisclosed...) product. It was a very interesting trip. Aside from our "sales pitch", we got to hear some of the thoughts of decision makers in this very young and vibrant industry.

It's refreshing to see an industry in its early days, where everyone still listens and not "stuck" in certain paradigms. Everyone knows that it is very early to know where exactly virtual worlds are going, and maybe even more important what would be the leading business models and the persistent ways to monetize on worlds.

As for mobile, we heard again that this is certainly the next thing for the industry. Unlike social networking sites that do have pretty good mobile services (usually WAP sites, but good ones), virtual worlds remain currently without any mobile access, and this is something all world owners want, even if that's not the first priority (Got to stabilize the world and bring PC users first...).

It appears that 2008 is going to be the year when virtual worlds will go mobile (this was also written in a recent industry forecast), so it's going to be interesting to see the various approaches out there.

There's a lot more, but I have to catch my flight. One last thing: I would like to wish Happy holidays to all of NextGenMoCo's readers! See you again in 2008!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Still here...

I haven't blogged for a while for no special reason, just a lot of interesting things are going on here in GamearraY... Once we get out of our current stealth mode for our new product I will of course update here.

Anyway, since Google's android was released (see my previous post), nothing exciting happened in the industry (as far as I know), and I guess since Christmas is approaching it's going to stay slow for the next month or so. However, 3GSM 2008 is around the corner, opening in February 11th, so this is about to change....

As for this blog, I am thinking about making it more than just a blog, so I would like to hear from you the readers what would you like to see in terms of content that is relevant for the mobile content and new media spaces. If you have any ideas or suggestion drop me an email or comment here in this post.