On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:59 +0200, david blanchard wrote:
> I had a look and did not see anything that prevents us for trying
> this, it looks like a good idea.

Cool! Let's hope there isn't a hidden technical difficulty somewhere - I
really wonder why we haven't seen this already... Maybe it's the issue
of having to ask players to write something, but I wonder if there is
something else that will come in the way.

Btw, here is a first draft of the specs for the beta1.1 - let me know if
you have comments:
http://community.hackit.cx/wiki/Card_Stories_-_Beta1.1_Specifications 

> Also, I was wondering if you are aware of the details of the following
> (...) For example, instead of the typical story saying that someone
> just bought a new item, it could say "Dave, Jonny and 3 other friends"
> just started playing a game." It could still offer a way to facilitate
> virality if we know how this works exactly I guess. 

Yes and no - as far as I know there is no way to control this. It is
supposed to automatically appear once an (unknown) number of friends
have added a given application. But first you need to find a way to get
those friends to add the application in the first place, second it's
only one post instead of many, and last you don't control what's written
- so there is little way to craft messages that drive users to try the
application (or even to describe what it is!).

On the other side, I've noticed that the new positioning of the game
invites/notifications makes them more visible than where they were
before the change. I'm wondering if users do click on them, but that
part could not be that bad...

Xavier.

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