http://www.linking-people.com/blog A blog on Web 2.0 with a focus on Hong Kong and Mainland China Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:51:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The day before yesterday, Daring Fireball's John Gruber was the first to point out that iPhone OS 4 SDK bans cross-compiled applications, promoted as a key-feature for Adobe's upcoming Flash CS5: "Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private ... http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=99 Interesting recaps on WoWs history in China have been posted at two (totally games-unrelated) blogs, written by China-based international lawyer Dan Harris and Dan Maas, head of special effects company, Maas Digital: "Blizzard had successfully brought WoW into the Chinese market in 2005 through a license agreement with local game developer ... http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=96 South China Morning Post yesterday broke news about how Facebook repeatedly deleted groups of political opposition in Hong Kong: "A Facebook group with 84,298 members formed to oppose the pro-establishment DAB was deleted Kelvin Sit Tak-O, who runs a discussion group that opposes the pro-establishment party, the Democratic Alliance for ... http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=94 Adam Martin has posted an interesting Article called "2010 and the Browser MMO" at his blog T-Machine, essentially raising the question, how a contemporary browser MMO should look and feel like: "It’s 2010. I know a lot of people in the industry still haven’t accepted even the concept of a “browser-based” ... http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=92 Google reported cyber attacks to its network, originating from China and reportedly targeting email-accounts of Chinese human rights activists, as David Drummond, Google's Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer writes: "In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in ... http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=90 A very happy Christmas to everybody from the Coobico-team, and a happy new year. While development of Coobico will still go on during the holidays, there will probably no blog-post before new year. http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=88 Free-to-play and micro-transactions are trends migrating from Asia to western MMOs in the past years—even being picked up by major players like Sony and EA. Still, it has not yet been proven if gamers’ acceptance of microtransactions matches the Asian level of market penetration and if thusly generated revenue can ... http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=86 Two studies about the american and european gaming-market were published lately: NPD’s “Entertainment Trends in America” and Today’s Gamers International Gamers Survey. According to NPD, 14 percent of all U.S. households subscribe to online gaming subscription services (August 2009), while the Today’s Gamers survey claims that “MMOs constitute 14 percent ... http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=84 As much as I hate to be a smart-ass, but I've been highly skeptical already last year about Facebook's acclaimed attempt to conquer the Mainland's social network market. Just like I predicted, FB's efforts are folding, as the Wall Street Journal reports--with active users dwindling, from one million... to around ... http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=82 We have updated the gallery of the development blog of our upcoming MMO Coobico with a bunch of new screenshots of our current alpha version -- take a look after the jump. http://www.linking-people.com/blog/?p=80