Max Skibinsky, Founder of Inporia and former Founder of Hive7 (acquired by Playdom), presented at our SF Game Monetization event on May 9th, 2012. Check out the SF Game Monetization meetup: http://www.meetup.com/SFGameMonetization/
In this presentation, Max talks about the key to monetizing games is by tailoring the purchases to a player's emotions.
21. Post Tech
• Fully Jobs-ian world now
• Everybody ó everybody | 24/7
• Tech is invisible plumbing
• World wide lattice of emotions
• Emotions propagate instantly
39. Must Read
• Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, • Tipping Point
• On Intelligence, Incompleteness • The Blind Watchmaker
• Guns, Germs & Steel, Collapse • The God Dellusion
• The Red Queen • Genome
• Poor Charlie Almanac Ubiquity • Elegant Universe
• Evolution of Cooperation • The Trouble with Physics
• Nexus • The Road to Reality
• Social Atom • Freakonomics
• The Wisdom of the Crowds