Filed under: Business, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Mulletocracy : Business in the front, party in the rear
User generated content is all the rage, but only the best user generated content is worthy of real ad sales. So what's a user-gen web startup like Digg, Youtube or Myspace to do? Let the users fight, argue and generally make asses of themselves in the back room, while pro-level editors keep the front page all nice and shiny. Buzz feed points out a string of articles on this phenomenon and explains, "The mullet strategy is here to stay because the best way for web companies to grow traffic is to let the users have control, but the best way to sell advertising is a slick, pretty front page where corporate sponsors can wistfully admire their brands."
If you'll pardon us, we're going out back to shave our heads.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
