Archive for September, 2010

Great week in the Bay area!

I am writing this somewhere over the North Pacific, a couple of hundred kilometers south of Alaska on a Delta flight from San Francisco to Tokyo. I spent the past week in the Bay area for among others the Smartphone game summit and TechCrunch Disrupt. As during every trip to the Valley I was once again inspired by the entrepreneurs that I met and the whole entrepreneurial vibe that's hanging around San Francisco. It seems like every second person I met either works for a start-up or is an...
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SAI Digital 100 – Tudou ranks #15!!

Every year the Silicon Alley Insider / Business Insider ranks the most valuable Internet start-ups. Tudou made the list for the 3rd year in a row, this year SAI put us at place 15 with a valuation of USD 1.5 billion. No comment on that valuation from me, SAI explains how they get to our valuation in their post. Like I said last year as well, the list is rather arbitrary (Spil Games is again missing from the list, they absolutely belong on here), but it's nice to see how "outsiders" look at the...
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Meet me in San Francisco

I just decided to go to the Smartphone Games Summit in San Francisco this Friday afternoon. Anybody in the mobile games industry that wants to meet and/or talk about Spil Games' HTML5 strategy feel free to get in touch through marcvanderchijs (at) gmail (dot) com. I only registered for a free Expo ticket, so I probably can't access the conference area. Next week Monday-Wednesday I will be at TechCrunch Disrupt (also in SF) together with Spil Games' business development director, so if...
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Spil Games and Google Present an HTML5

Cool HTML5 game news: Spil Games and Google are hosting an HTML5 Game Jam in Spil Games' headquarters in Hilversum, the Netherlands on the weekend of October...
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Sportive weekend

It's Monday morning 6 AM and I am sitting in a hotel room in Eindhoven, looking back at a great weekend. Friday night was nothing special actually, I went to Tudou around 7 PM to pick up my wife, had a chat with Gary and then spent an hour in a traffic jam to get home. After the kids were in bed I worked a bit and packed my suitcase. Saturday morning I took a flight to Hong Kong for a trail run with Marcel Ekkel. He is back in HK after a working as an expat in Jakarta and it was nice to...
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Tudou launches real time HTML5 video transcoding

After last week's Spil Games' announcement that the company launched HTML5 mobile game websites on all of its portals and is putting its full weight behind HTML5, this week it is Tudou's turn to announce an important HTML5 development. If you want to watch one of Tudou's over 40 million videos on a mobile device, the video will be automatically real time (!) transcoded, using HTML5 and HTTP live streaming. The technology is now in open beta for Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile and in...
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