December 23rd, 2008
This will be our last post before the new year. It’s that time of the year when worker productivity hits it’s lowest point, (except for March Madness). Bosses are usually gone by this week to some ski vacation in their 15th home in Aspen and they’ll find something to complain to you about their trip after they return (I hear family time can do that to ya).
However, worker mice have piled up important looking papers on their desks and opened smokescreen docs on their computers in their best attempts to imitate hard work, while secretly they are browsing the web to learn how to brew their own eggnog, upping their game-playing or book-reading breaks to 60% of their day from 20%, tripling bathroom break frequency and length and stopping at every desk to chat along the way, desperately applying for other jobs, drinking at least two at every lunch and sometimes not coming back, quintupling their snacky and sweety intake, and our personal fav, embarrassing yourself at company office parties (”I never knew he/she rolled like that”).
From all of us at BuyPlayWin, long live the holiday season. We’d all probably kill each other without one!
November 12th, 2008
Our good friends at Occipital, founded at TechStars.org in Boulder, CO by two genius former computer science student, Vikas and Jeff, are determined to organize your photographic memories over time and space, and are already revealing beautiful “life tapestries” comprised of your photos all over the internet and extracting important connections that you never knew existed. (You guys owe us for this plug.)
Occipital
Occipital found this pizza company, Red Baron, and the promotion printed on their boxes in grocery stores across America, and sent us a photo as evidence of our website name’s closely matching text. How thoughtful of them…
Red Baron
Amazingly, we received another email from a game developer who wanted to learn more about us, and came accross this same promotion. I am sure that these encounters will not be the last. I have his permission to quote a small part of his email:
“Does BPW (BuyPlayWin) develop food promotional materials, like the ‘EatPlayWin’ promotion on RedBaron Pizza boxes? Thanks.”
As funny as this was to our whole team, let it be known that BuyPlayWin is in no way affiliated with Red Baron pizza, their parent company, Schwan’s Consumer Brands North America, Inc, or the EatPlayWin promotion. BuyPlayWin is a startup company developing e-commerce and game technologies, part of a new and sensational service that is soon to be offered to consumers everywhere.
We must admit, Red Barron brand pizza does have good taste in their promotional slogans.
***for non-gamers, the title of this post references a leetspeak slang term, “PWNED”, which is not a typo and is derived from the word “own”. Pwn implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet gaming culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated (e.g. “You just got pwned!”). One other meaning can be ‘perfect ownage’. To do this, you could be playing a fighting game, where your character defeats an opponent without receiving any damage (i.e. leaving him/her unscathed).***
November 4th, 2008
It’s always interesting to see which folks that write about video game and social network industry news actually play the games they write about. We’ve yet to hear much about the Agarwalla brothers re-release of Scrabulous under the new website and brand, lexulous.
Had you been a real fan of the Scrabulous game that captured Hasbro’s dim-witted attention and legal wrath on Facebook, you would be a registered user, and received an email like the one I got:
You can continue playing your favorite word game online at http://www.LEXULOUS.com.
Your old username “________” will work and your ratings have been preserved. In case you have forgotten your password, please visit - http://www.lexulous.com/forgot_password.php
For any help, please feel free to reply to this email and we shall get back to you within a few hours.
Best Regards,
Rajat & Jayant (The Lexulous Team)
P.S. All the old rooms like “The Lounge” and “Bingo Boomers” are now open.
They’ve put a lot of quality effort into their new release and have several versions available to play, and to license for your own private website. Check them out!
