extremepreneur

Twitter Saved My Life

Well, not exactly ... but for three days solid I used TweetDeck and replied to EVERY message I saw about the Bailout and keep pounding away that Bailout Bonanza (our iPhone game) was delayed, perhaps due to concerns about it's satirical nature. That message was then re-twitted by major bloggers to 10's of 1000's of followers

Well, it just went LIVE in the store. It had been delayed for well over a month.

You can see it on the iPhone App Store.

Sales were generated last night even though you have to type in the name or use my provided link to buy the title. It isn't in the "what's new" in the game categories yet.

Look, what I basically did was to create a wave of public discussion on the approval delay. Our contacts had told us that the title might be looked at next week. This Twit Blitz may have done the trick, I have NO WAY of knowing if it did the trick.

I also resorted to on-camera begging last weekend:

http://www.theappshow.com/2009-03-22-the-app-show-episode-21-no-parking/

The Dark Side Of "The Cloud"

As we all move to Web 2.0 services we should remember that their can be a dark side to having our 'stuff' in "The Cloud."  This blog is a good example.  Originally hosted (paid) with Weblogger/Manila starting in 2001.  Then a few months ago (not sure exactly when) the blog went away.  New owners I guess.  Sent out emails, found it had been moved to WordPress, was asked to pay $99/year for hosting.

At this point we got into a dispute, I'm not saying I was 100% right and they were 100% wrong ... but at a particular point I made it clear that given WordPress was offering free hosting I was reluctant to pay for hosting on WordPress.  As it turns out they may have been using WordPress on their own servers, I'm not sure.

Well at that point they simply switched off the blog.  And there was nothing I could do ...

Except for the fact that sometime in the past I had saved a off-line copy of this blog.

So here we are, on TypePad with most of the blog restored, even with the dates of the articles intact.

So my point is that "The Cloud" does have a dark side.  What happens to your 'stuff' in a business negotiation?  Hopefully it doesn't just get switched off.