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		<title>Easy recommendations</title>
		<link>http://thomasschweitzer.com/2011/03/02/easy-recommendations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A project that I have been working on during my employment as a development team manager at VeriSign has been the base for an open source version: EasyRec enables you to include item recommendations based on the behaviour of your website users. From their website: User Actions are sent to the easyrec using the REST API. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.easyrec.org/"><img class="alignright" title="easyrec logo" src="http://www.easyrec.org/img/easyrec_logo.gif" alt="easyrec logo" width="150" height="119" /></a>A project that I have been working on during my employment as a development team manager at VeriSign has been the base for an open source version:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.easyrec.org/">EasyRec</a> enables you to include item recommendations based on the behaviour of your website users.</p>
<p>From their website:</p>
<ul>
<blockquote>
<li><span>User Actions</span> are sent to the easyrec using the <a href="http://www.easyrec.org/implement"><span>REST API</span></a>. Possible actions are viewing, buying or rating an item.</li>
<li>These user actions are stored in the database of the <span><strong>Recommendation Engine</strong></span>.</li>
<li>The provided <span>Analyzers</span> periodically analyze all recorded data for identifying patterns to generate recommendations.</li>
<li>These <span>Recommendations</span> can be accessed through calls to the easyrec webservice <a href="http://www.easyrec.org/api"><span>API</span></a> and presented to a user.</li>
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<p>I left VeriSign in 2008, so it will be quite interesting for me to see how it evolved.</p>
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		<title>AT.LANT.IS 2.0</title>
		<link>http://thomasschweitzer.com/2010/08/18/at-lant-is-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of announcements (ahem): AT.LANT.IS, the online youth community, has been relaunched. The primary business model shifted from premium subscriptions towards item sales, along with the important (and overdue) integration of SMS payment. Secondly, today the new AT.LANT.IS app launched on schuelerVZ, one of the biggest social network for kids and teenagers in Central [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of announcements (ahem):</p>
<p>AT.LANT.IS, the online youth community, has been relaunched.<a href="http://thomasschweitzer.com/wp-admin/www.at.lant.is"></a></p>
<p>The primary business model shifted from premium subscriptions towards item sales, along with the important (and overdue) integration of SMS payment.</p>
<p>Secondly, today the new AT.LANT.IS app launched on <a href="http://www.schuelervz.net/">schuelerVZ</a>, one of the biggest social network for kids and teenagers in Central Europe. This makes it possible to create your character and play and chat in Atlantis within the schuelerVZ environment (well, it&#8217;s an OpenSocial container, so you do the math <img src='http://thomasschweitzer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ). I assume launches on studiVZ and meinVZ will follow, but the target group is mainly using schuelerVZ, so that is the most important platform to launch. Good.</p>
<p>Thirdly, I quit my job as CTO of plazz entertainment in June. Still, it&#8217;s nice to finally see the changes and new features we have been working on for so long go live. I hope that the new business model proves itself, and Atlantis can take advantage of the huge VZ user base.</p>
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		<title>Zerplazzt</title>
		<link>http://thomasschweitzer.com/2010/05/25/zerplazzt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 10:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following my updates on Xing, you know that I am resigning from my job as CTO of plazz entertainment next month. The thing is, there are some very cool options that appeared over the last 6 months or so, and I hope to be able to share what I will be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have been following my updates on <a href="https://www.xing.com/profile/Thomas_Schweitzer">Xing</a>, you know that  I am resigning from my job as CTO of plazz entertainment next month.</p>
<p>The thing is, there are some very cool options that appeared over the last 6 months or so, and I hope to be able to share what I will be doing in the future very soon. </p>
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		<title>Quo Vadis 2010 Conference</title>
		<link>http://thomasschweitzer.com/2010/05/24/quo-vadis-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the slides and reader notes from my talk at the Quo Vadis conference in Berlin in April 2010. AT.LANT.IS taucht auf &#8211; Entwicklung und Betrieb einer Browsergame Youth Community plazz ist ein Publisher für interaktive Unterhaltung für Kinder und Familie. Die Firma wurde 2007 gegründet und beschäftigt sich mit Spieleproduktionen auf Basis von [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are the slides and reader notes from my talk at the <a href="http://www.die-entwicklerkonferenz.de/">Quo Vadis conference</a> in Berlin in April 2010.</p>
<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_4264544"><strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thomers/atlantis-taucht-auf-entwicklung-und-betrieb-einer-browsergame-youth-community" title="AT.LANT.IS taucht auf - Entwicklung und Betrieb einer Browsergame Youth Community">AT.LANT.IS taucht auf &#8211; Entwicklung und Betrieb einer Browsergame Youth Community</a></strong><object id="__sse4264544" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=qv2010pdf-100524045452-phpapp02&#038;stripped_title=atlantis-taucht-auf-entwicklung-und-betrieb-einer-browsergame-youth-community" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed name="__sse4264544" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=qv2010pdf-100524045452-phpapp02&#038;stripped_title=atlantis-taucht-auf-entwicklung-und-betrieb-einer-browsergame-youth-community" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></div>
<p>plazz ist ein Publisher für interaktive Unterhaltung für Kinder und Familie. Die Firma wurde 2007 gegründet und beschäftigt sich mit Spieleproduktionen auf Basis von TV-Lizenzen und der Entwicklung von eigener IP.</p>
<p>In den letzten 2 Jahren haben wir uns auf die Entwicklung und den Betrieb der Youth Gaming Community <a href="http://www.at.lant.is/">AT.LANT.IS</a> konzentriert. </p>
<p>Youth Communities bieten Kindern und Jugendlichen zielgruppengerechte Charaktere mit vielfältigen Personalisierungsoptionen, eine virtuelle Welt als Ordnungsprinzip mit ausgeprägten Community-Funktionen, und Casual Games ohne Einstiegshürden.</p>
<p>AT.LANT.IS ist eine thematisch zusammenhängende Online-Welt, in der die 8- bis 12-jährigen User online im Chat und offline über ein eigenes Mail-System miteinander kommunizieren, sich über ihre personalisierbaren Avatare ausdrücken, Mini-Games spielen und dabei eine virtuelle Währing „ORIs“ verdienen, und diese dann in virtuellen Items und Upgrades ausgeben können.</p>
<p>Das Projekt wurde von einem Inhouse-Team konzipiert und geleitet und von internen und externen Teams innerhalb eines 12-monatigen Produktionszeitraumes umgesetzt. Der Entwicklungsprozess lief in monatlichen Iterationen ab. Ein Feature wurde im Wiki spezifiziert, im Issue Tracker eingetragen, einer Version und einem Developer zugewiesen, und dann auf einem Entwicklungsserver laufend integriert.</p>
<p>Bei der Systemarchitektur wurde auf Flash als Client-Technologie mit der <a href="http://www.openspace-engine.com/">OpenSpace</a> ISO-Engine, PHP für die Website, auf einen mySQL-Cluster und den kommerziellen Socketserver <a href="http://www.smartfoxserver.com/">SmartfoxServer</a> mit Java-Extensions und <a href="http://hibernate.org/">Hibernate</a>-ORM gesetzt. </p>
<p>Nach Start der Closed Beta im Dezember 2008 und der Open Beta im Februar 2009 wurde Atlantis im August 2009 gelaunched.</p>
<p>Die ersten 6 Monate zeigten eine Verdopplung der durchschnittlichen Zeit, die ein User auf AT.LANT.IS verbringt, deutlich differenzierte Beliebtheit der einzelnen Mini-Games, ELV (elektronisches Lastschriftverfahren) als dominierende Zahlungsmethode, und die Notwendigkeit regelmässiger Anpassungen des Funktionsumfanges an das User-Verhalten.</p>
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		<title>GDC 2010</title>
		<link>http://thomasschweitzer.com/2010/03/04/gdc-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m almost off to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. This year again, the number of sessions about social, online, casual MMO etc. type of games increased &#8211; I should be attending most of the Social &#38; Online Games Summit on Tuesday and Wednesday, and will roam around the following days. The plan is [...]]]></description>
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I&#8217;m almost off to the <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/">Game Developers Conference</a> in San Francisco.</p>
<p>This year again, the number of sessions about social, online, casual MMO etc. type of games increased &#8211; I should be attending most of the <a href="http://gdconf.com/conference/sogs.html">Social &amp; Online Games Summit</a> on Tuesday and Wednesday, and will roam around the following days.</p>
<p>The plan is to cover the most interesting stuff here in the blog &#8211; we&#8217;ll see how this goes.</p>
<p>If you are in SF and care for a coffee or beer (or have invitations to a hot exclusive party&#8230;), let me know.</p>
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		<title>Retail vs. service mentality UPDATE = Lean Startup</title>
		<link>http://thomasschweitzer.com/2009/12/11/retail-vs-service-mentality-update-lean-startup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a more positive and proactive followup on my previous post about the Top 10 of retail mentality, I cannot overemphasize the importance of the &#8220;Lean Startup&#8221; philosophy and concepts, started by Eric Ries and Steve Blank. If you have not already done so, please have a quick look at the slides: The Lean Startup [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a more positive and proactive followup on my <a href="http://thomasschweitzer.com/2009/12/06/top-10-signs-your-web-2-0-service-is-managed-by-retail-mentality">previous post about the Top 10 of retail mentality</a>, I cannot overemphasize the importance of the &#8220;Lean Startup&#8221; philosophy and concepts, started by Eric Ries and Steve Blank.</p>
<p>If you have not already done so, please have a quick look at the slides:</p>
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<div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">documents</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/venturehacks">Venture Hacks </a>.</div>
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<p>Or you can watch a webcast of a live talk by Eric on the same subject, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1294">&#8220;How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step&#8221;</a>:</p>
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<p>Earlier this year, a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/lean-startup-circle/">Google Group</a> was started.</p>
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		<title>User Generated Content in AT.LANT.IS</title>
		<link>http://thomasschweitzer.com/2009/12/02/user-generated-content-in-at-lant-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our youth community AT.LANT.IS we want to encourage users to participate as much as possible. From a game design perspective, users help to &#8220;rebuild&#8221; Atlantis by earning the ingame currency ORIs in the minigames. As soon as enough ORIs are available, a new feature in the world is unlocked for everyone &#8211; a new [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In our youth community <a href="http://www.at.lant.is/">AT.LANT.IS</a> we want to encourage users to participate as much as possible.</p>
<p>From a game design perspective, users help to &#8220;rebuild&#8221; Atlantis by earning the ingame currency <em>ORIs</em> in the minigames. As soon as enough ORIs are available, a new feature in the world is unlocked for everyone &#8211; a new room, new avatar items, or a new game.</p>
<p>Besides that, more and more users are sending in their stories and drawings to be included in the library or the museum, respectively.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.at.lant.is/community/blog/detail/181"><img class="aligncenter" title="AT.LANT.IS Bruchbude" src="http://extrafiles.at.lant.is/blog/291109/bruchbude.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="265" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.at.lant.is/community/blog/detail/147"><img class="aligncenter" title="AT.LANT.IS Halloween Stories " src="http://extrafiles.at.lant.is/blog/291009/gruselbuch.png" alt="" width="391" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>I hope we can gain more momentum with that user generated content &#8211; as always, some users seem to get into it more than others, some of them even use other platforms like YouTube:</p>
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		<title>Bookmarks for October 18th through October 28th</title>
		<link>http://thomasschweitzer.com/2009/10/28/bookmarks-for-october-18th-through-october-28th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are my links for October 28th: Grails Quick Tip #2: Getting Access to SessionFactory and MessageSource &#171; Brain Flush &#8211; 500 Internal Server Error &#8211; 500 Internal Server Error Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture &#8211; Proper way to use JDK6 for IntelliJ&#8230; :: JetBrains Developer Community &#8211; The Escapist &#8211;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These are my links for October 28th:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/grails-quick-tip-2-getting-access-to-sessionfactory-and-messagesource/">Grails Quick Tip #2: Getting Access to SessionFactory and MessageSource &laquo; Brain Flush</a> &#8211; </li>
<li><a href="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/thomers">500 Internal Server Error</a> &#8211; 500 Internal Server Error</li>
<li><a href="http://eludamos.org/index.php/eludamos">Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture</a> &#8211; </li>
<li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/thread/279482">Proper way to use JDK6 for IntelliJ&#8230; :: JetBrains Developer Community</a> &#8211; </li>
<li><a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/">The Escapist</a> &#8211; </li>
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		<title>AT.LANT.IS &#8220;Invite a friend&#8221; promotion</title>
		<link>http://thomasschweitzer.com/2009/10/02/at-lant-is-invite-a-friend-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some more updates about what&#8217;s currently going on in AT.LANT.IS: Recently, we introduced a more detailed differentiation between the basic and the premium members. Premium members now have unlimited access to all emoticons and animations, and can change the color of their chat messages. Also, received mails do not expire for premium members, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are some more updates about what&#8217;s currently going on in <a href="http://www.at.lant.is/">AT.LANT.IS</a>:</p>
<p>Recently, we introduced a more detailed differentiation between the basic and the premium members.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.at.lant.is/upgrade"><img src="http://www.at.lant.is/inc/img/xshared/icons/premium-crown-big.png" alt="Premium" /></a></p>
<p>Premium members now have unlimited access to all emoticons and animations, and can change the color of their chat messages.</p>
<p>Also, received mails do not expire for premium members, and they can invite their buddies or other users in their <a href="http://www.at.lant.is/help/handbook/page/3#q18">personal home room</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.at.lant.is/help/handbook/page/3#q18"><img src="http://www.at.lant.is/inc/img/xshared/teaser/handbook/28_bruchbude.jpg" alt="Bruchbude" /></a></p>
<p>Furthermore, we made it even easier to gain premium membership status:</p>
<p>First, we now support <a href="http://www.kartensicherheit.de/ww/de/pub/oeffentlich/zahlungsverfahren/zahlungsverfahren_national/elv.php">ELV</a> as payment method.</p>
<p>Second, and even more important, we just started a <a href="http://www.at.lant.is/community/blog/">&#8220;Invite a friend&#8221; promotion</a> &#8211; for each successfully invited friend, you gain 1 day premium membership for free. </p>
<p><b>This is only active for the next couple of days, so <a href="http://www.at.lant.is/user/sendafriend">spread the word now</a></b>!</p>
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		<title>First steps in AT.LANT.IS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We included an animated intro explaining the main features of AT.LANT.IS:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We included an <a href="http://www.at.lant.is/help/firststeps">animated intro</a> explaining the main features of AT.LANT.IS:</p>
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