Archive for March, 2006
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
19th person started in AOE yesterday.
Just for the fun of it I decided to put some historical data on one chart. It was nice to see graphically how the number of people in our company has been growing since the start. The original company was divided in two in October ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
With our latest new recruits, our current office space at Mikonkatu is reaching its limits. The location is great, and therefore we were really happy to find more office space at the same building. A company that is located right next to our office is moving away in April. We ...
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Saturday, March 18th, 2006
Our Finnish site will soon break the line of 100 million played games. (Actually it has already broken that line, since the system has been counting the total number of played games only since 27th of October 2004. That's the date when the site had its biggest single upgrade ever ...
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Today we hired our first worker in Spain. Playray Spain test phase launch is scheduled for April. That will be our 6th Playray site. Before this we've opened:
Finland (3/2003)
.com site (international/USA) (9/2004)
Germany (1/2005)
Sweden (4/2005)
UK (5/2005)
As I told in my previous posting our service is huge in Finland but the ...
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
As I already said I'll write here quite much about our company's internationalization.
Why I am so enthusiastic about this at the moment? Let me explain.
Our online gaming community service was first launched here in Finland, and it is huge now. According to TNS Metrix it gathers almost 700.000 unique ...
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
I've been running my own blog in Finnish since 2001, but now I've decided to start another blog in English. I think I'll write here mostly about professional stuff: especially how our company manages to internationalize its online gaming community product. Naturally I might write something from my every day ...
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