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Free-to-play, virtual goods business models gaining steam in games
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 7 hours ago
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Consumers are embracing online games that are free to play, with options to buy virtual goods such as extra weapons or decorative clothing, a new survey confirms. The survey by virtual goods platform maker PlaySpan and market researcher VGMarket shows...
Tags: percent bought, social networks, San Francisco, Virtual economy, Massively multiplayer online role-playing games, Business Finance, Virtual world, Technology Internet, Virtual good, World of Warcraft, Electronic commerce, Windows games
Loneliness can spread to others, researchers find
Monterey :: TN :: USA | about 11 hours ago
Credibility Loneliness can spread to others, researchers find The Washington Post Updated: 12/10/2009 01:35:05 AM PST Loneliness is like a disease — and what's worse, it's contagious. Although it may sound counterintuitive, loneliness can spread from one person...
Tags: John Cacioppo, Nicholas Christakis, social networks, Monterey, Loneliness, Social psychology, Social network, Nicholas A. Christakis, Affect, Emotion, Happiness
New high-tech way exposes infidelity
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility There is a question that has crossed the mind recently of anyone who has sent a cell phone text message while cheating on a spouse: What was I thinking? Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill.
Tags: text message, cell phones, Tiger Woods, Sherry Turkle, social networks, John Ensign, Detroit, Text messaging, Mobile technology, Pager, Ringtone, E-mail, Mobile phone, Technology Internet, Kwame Kilpatrick
NutshellMail opens to the public, e-mails you the highlight reel of your real-time feed
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility It’s pretty much compulsory now to be on a couple social networks. But how do you keep track of 700 friends, 500 Twitter accounts, 150 LinkedIn connections and a couple MySpace friends? One of the startups from Facebook’s incubator fbFund, NutshellMail...
Tags: social networks, NutshellMail, San Francisco, Web 2.0, Blog hosting services, Microblogging, Social information processing, Technology Internet, Online social networking, Facebook, Twitter
Cyber crooks targets banks, social networks
São Paulo :: Brazil | 2 days ago
Credibility An annual security report released Tuesday by technology titan Cisco warns that banks and online social networks are prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyber crooks. "Criminals have been taking note of the large crowds in social-networking sites.
Tags: Cisco, social networks, malicious code, cyber crooks, Scott Olechowski, Brazil, São Paulo, Cisco Systems, Computer network security, Malware, Marketing, Technology Internet, Spamming, Spam, Internet, E-mail spam
From Political Parties To Social Movements
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 3 days ago
Credibility Foundation of Sri Lanka on 7 December, said in his address people have instant access to information unlike before. “They now have better tools to communicate, organize and protest...In short, politicians are no longer the masters; the people are becoming...
Tags: Sri Lanka, social movements, civil society, UK of Carter Ruck, UKIP, Trafigura, social networks, owned hands, aids foundation, Colombo, Milinda Moragoda, Web 2.0, Internet culture, Community building, Social information processing, Technology Internet, Online social networking, Internet, Twitter
Balloon hunt soars on networkers' hot air
Zurich :: Switzerland | 4 days ago
Credibility The Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) offered a $40,000 (£24,350) prize to the first person to locate ten big, red balloons raised on tethers across America on Saturday, from Portland, Oregon, to Miami, Florida. The goal was...
Tags: Darpa Network Challenge, social networks, Switzerland, Zurich, Balloon, Technology Internet, DARPA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ballooning, Balloons, Red Balloon, Artificial intelligence, Driverless car, Ns, MIT Media Lab, Weather balloon, Twitter
Ty Cohen Presents Making the Transition Online
The explosion of digital media has not only changed the way music labels have to do business, it’s also forced veteran musicians to rethink how to sell their music. To rely solely on CD sales is not only lazy; it’s professionally foolhardy...
Tags: music promotion, how to promote music, how to sell music, ty cohen, platinum millennium publishing, how to sell my music online, how to sell my music on Amazon, how to sell my music on myspace, online music promotion, inside music promotion, independent music promotion, music marketing and promotion, hip hop music promotion, social networks, allnews, Atlanta, Virtual communities, Social information processing, TuneCore, Facebook, Web 2.0, MySpace, Blog hosting services, Online social networking, Entertainment Culture, veteran musician, Technology Internet
SOLUTIONS/BASSUK: Ending homelessness among returning war veterans
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago
Credibility Bassuk In a country as affluent as ours, no one should be homeless. Yet veterans who have served their country account for one-third of adult individuals who are homeless in America. On any night, more than 130,000 veterans find themselves with no place...
Tags: social networks, returning war, war veterans, PTSD, Afghanistan, Kabul, Health Medical Pharma, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Busking, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Issues, Veteran, Socioeconomics, Humanitarian aid, Military personnel, Homelessness
US military offers $40,000 challenge to internet users
Rochester :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility But the stakes for users of sites like Facebook and Twitter are set to increase dramatically tomorrow, as the US government launches a competition that offers cunning web users the chance to win thousands of dollars. In a nine-day challenge run by Darpa,...
Tags: Darpa Network Challenge, social networks, Rochester, Driverless car, Larry Moss, Technology Internet, DARPA, Internet, Balloons, Social network service
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