Virtual Goods Summit 2008 mindmaps
Before I started Everyplay I was researching the virtual goods market, and I stumbled upon the most excellent Virtual Goods Summit 2007 organized by Charles Hudson. I was glued to the panel videos (BTW, they are still relevant). The US pioneers of this market were speaking frankly, openly and insightfully. There was lot to be learned: from market data, conversion rates, ARPUs to best practices.
The Virtual Goods Summit 2008 lived up to the great expectations set up by the first event. The sessions ranged from very good to simply outstanding. The Metrics presentation by Daniel James and Andrew Chen was amazingly detailed, candid and stock full of industry leading insights. I loved when Susan Wu put the virtual good economy vendors on the hotseat. David Perry of Acclaim, Gene Hoffman of Vindicia and several other panelists really delivered on their respective panels.
However, watching 7 hours of video is not for the faint of heart and not all of the sessions were covered by bloggers. So I decided to post-humously liveblog live-mindmap the video recordings. These are not the most readable mindmaps I’ve created as I focused on capturing detail, not on distilling the gist of the panels.
What Users Want – Branded and User-Generated Virtual Goods
- Mindmap (MindMeister, view online)
- Mindmap (PDF download)
- Liveblog (Adam Martin at Free2Play.Biz)
Making Virtual Economies Work – Lessons from the Leaders
- Mindmap (MindMeister, view online)
- Mindmap (PDF download)
- Liveblog (Adam Martin at Free2Play.Biz)
Virtual Goods and Social Networks
- Mindmap (MindMeister, view online)
- Mindmap (PDF download)
- Liveblog (Adam Martin at Free2Play.Biz)
Metrics for Virtual Goods Businesses: The Whirled Case Study
Generating Real Revenue from Virtual Goods
Getting Paid – Building a Dominant Payments and Billing Strategy
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December 17, 2008 at 00:01
Wow Jussi! Outstanding work once again, thanks for sharing!
Joakim Achren
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December 17, 2008 at 00:11
I happened to watch the videos myself some time ago. Your mmaps well summarize the content. Good stuff.
December 17, 2008 at 00:15
Wow! The mindmaps are amazing. What a cool tool, too.
Thanks for your thoroughness!
December 17, 2008 at 00:16
Jussi. The mind are very useful indeed. I probably prefer the pdf format .
Keep it coming.
December 17, 2008 at 09:36
;-) Glad to hear that you found the maps useful!
December 17, 2008 at 10:58
Jussi, seriously, ths is pretty intense stuff. Perhaps you should blog and share some insights on how to get this level of quality and productivity out of oneself ;) Excellent stuff!
December 22, 2008 at 03:02
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January 18, 2009 at 23:40
The mindmaps are great support to the videos, thank you a lot for sharing.
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September 3, 2009 at 18:43
Cool site, love the info.
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