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Comment Good scheme but analyst thinks it's ambitious (Score 1) 65

by mappingbabel on Monday July 19, 2010 @11:37AM (#32951646) Attached to: Rackspace Releases Cloud Stack As Open Source

I reported on this for ZDNet.co.uk and the analyst i interviewed has a bit to say about what exactly is going to stop this from working. Feature, mostly about platform lock-in as the thing this scheme is fighting and the thing that may keep it from success is here: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2010/07/19/nasa-rackspace-launch-openstack-cloud-interoperability-scheme-40089574/

Facebook, Zynga Sign Long-Term Virtual Currency Deal 124

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @06:33AM from the money-builds-great-friendships dept.

Despite recent rumors that Facebook and FarmVille developer Zynga were gearing up for a legal battle, the two announced yesterday that they have signed a five-year agreement over how virtual currency will be used. Quoting: "The source of the conflict ... comes down to Facebook's decision to introduce Facebook Credits, an over-arching currency system to be used in all games on its platform. This allows users to purchase just one type of currency for use in Facebook games, rather than buying directly from individual developers — a lack of direct control over its monetization that became a major point of contention for Zynga. Also likely an issue is Facebook's decision to take 30 percent of revenues gathered from credits, with 70 percent allocated to the developers."

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