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May 17, 2004
Ziff Davis Debuts 1up.com For Online Gamers
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Last week, Ziff Davis announced plans to push into the growing arena for online gaming communities with 1up.com.
Dan Fost
[from
SFGate.com]
Armed with technology from San Francisco's Laszlo Systems, Ziff is taking a page from the playbook of Friendster, the pioneer of online social networking, and hoping to build something similar for online gamers.
The site, which is still being developed but can be accessed by anyone, allows users to post biographical information, photos of themselves, lists of their favorite games and even blogs, online diaries about their gaming activities.
Blogs also will be written by the 70 editors of Ziff's game magazines, such as Electronic Gaming Monthly, Computer Gaming World, Xbox Nation and the Official U.S. PlayStation magazine.
I tried to sign up, but I continue to have 'page unavailable' messages. The service is a moving target, under construction. More to follow, I guess.
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1. Marc Canter on May 18, 2004 02:36 AM writes...
Duuuuude - what can I say. We ain't done yet.
Mea culpa
But that article missed many a key point about 1UP.com which we'll get into - once it's rolling:
- putting social networking into a context - in this case - gamers and games
- integrating many a commodity features (gallery, boards, games, points, vlubs) and treating them as 'built-in constucts', available from all over the system.
- large scale, scalable environments - able ot handle the masses
- a Commons area.....
:-)
Permalink to Comment2. Stowe Boyd on May 18, 2004 08:45 AM writes...
I can't wait.
What is the 'Commons' area? And are 'vlubs' something special, or just 'clubs' misspelled? (wink)
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