• 8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games

    8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games

    Two years ago, I ranted about the need for more challenge and chance in social games. Since then, the entire gaming industry has drastically changed. If I sound like a broken record on that note, it’s because in a fast-paced, high-tech market, it’s always true (and thus worth reiteration). It seems ...

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  • How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot

    How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot

    Welcome to the wonderful world of location-based games! I see you’ve just downloaded a copy of Traveler’s Quest, or Dokobots, or CodeRunner, or perhaps you’ve got yourself on foursquare for the first time. That’s great! You’re about to discover what geotagging and GPS-enabled mobile devices can add to gaming and ...

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  • Abandoning Facebook: CrowdStar Joins OMGPOP, Kabam, Funzio in Mobile

    Abandoning Facebook: CrowdStar Joins OMGPOP, Kabam, Funzio in Mobile

    CrowdStar, developer of popular Facebook games like Happy Aquarium and the "Girl" series (Modern Girl, Social Girl, Top Girl and It Girl), announced today that they will stop developing games for Facebook, according to an interview with All Things Digital.  Peter Relan predicts that 90% of Crowdstar’s revenue will come ...

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  • Don’t Be a Cheapskate: 4 Reasons Pay-What-You-Like Backfires

    Don’t Be a Cheapskate: 4 Reasons Pay-What-You-Like Backfires

    Pay-What-You-Like.  You’ve sometimes seen it called Pay-What-You-Want.  You’ve seen it while leaving your local museum or hippy café as a big box that says “Donations.”  You’ve also seen it for Radiohead’s In Rainbows or with Humble Bundle, the collection of indie games offered for however much you’d like to pay ...

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  • Cats Wearing GUNNARS: Zooey

    Cats Wearing GUNNARS: Zooey

    Meet Zooey O'Leary. Zooey is sporting a pair of GUNNAR Optik's Attache Phenom glasses, and looking good doing it. If you've been following our Dogs Wearing GUNNARS series, you may notice something a bit off this week. Zooey is a frisky first - special edition feline! You can call her a "domestic ...

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  • Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell

    Hardcore and Back Again: Video Games in a Nutshell

    The SNES was a young kid's dream (in the early 90's). Every game felt brand-spanking new, because it was. When video games first came along, "copycats" were neither a logical thing to consider, nor an option. Video games were casual. They were made for mainstream audiences. And back then, even the ...

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  • 5 Apps to Make You Smile

    5 Apps to Make You Smile

    These are a few of my favorite digital things... This list is hardly comprehensive, nor is it in any particular order. Enjoy! 1. Timehop - This gets top billing because too few people know about it (and more should - it's neat). Basically, Timehop answers one question, every day, via email. "What did ...

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  • The Time Has Come: Pokemon and Me 15 Years Later

    The Time Has Come: Pokemon and Me 15 Years Later

    Last year, when my mind was busy with summer vacation, I came home to an unsettling sight. Roxy's tumor had grown exponentially. Her arm was swelling up to a point where she couldn't even lift it. All attempts to remove the tumor would only make it grow back with a ...

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Blurtt is Worth a Thousand Words

21. March 2012

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Blurtt is Worth a Thousand Words

Let’s assume a picture is worth a thousand words — and that the average word is 6 characters long. Blurtt, a TriplePoint client which allows you to easily add images to your messages — and captions to those images — has essentially given you the power to compose a 6,000 character tweet. Not too shabby. [...]

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Social Media Yearbook, 2011 Infographic Edition

8. February 2011

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Infographics: the web’s unique way of defining  our tech-heavy times, destroying our productivity levels, and giving us the giggles. Flowtown has a fun new highschool-themed shakedown of today’s social media giants. Where do you fit into the 2011 yearbook? Do note the omission of any gaming networks (i.e. Apple’s Game Center, OpenFeint or Xbox LIVE), [...]

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Twitter’s New Coat of Paint & New Features Rolling Out Now

15. September 2010

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Twitter’s New Coat of Paint & New Features Rolling Out Now

Twitter hasn’t changed much since it launched in 2006, despite a few changes on the way. From the beginning for instance, the focus wasn’t on searching Twitter or its trending topics, but rather on simply just getting you to sign up. This look and feel has changed since then, with more focus on search and [...]

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Thursday Throwdown: TweetDeck or HootSuite? You Decide!

2. September 2010

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Thursday Throwdown: TweetDeck or HootSuite? You Decide!

Welcome to another edition of the Thursday Throwdown here on Frisky Mongoose! This week, we take a break from the world of Facebook games to pit two of the largest Twitter clients against one another. Before we get to that, however, let’s take a look at the results of our last Throwdown, which saw two [...]

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Twitter Fast Follow & Droid 2 Releasing Tomorrow: Wireless Wednesday

11. August 2010

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Twitter Fast Follow & Droid 2 Releasing Tomorrow: Wireless Wednesday

In the mobile news world, we have some very interesting stories leaking down the pipes like clockwork. Today, we have the new feature announced by Twitter called Fast Follow for SMS and the release of the Motorola Droid 2 on Verizon tomorrow. Twitter Fast Follow Twitter has just announced a brand new feature for people [...]

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Social Media Monopoly & Promoted Tweets: Social Tuesday

10. August 2010

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Social Media Monopoly & Promoted Tweets: Social Tuesday

Social media these days appears to have almost taken over the news world, with news about new revenue streams and creative uses of the companies that make-up the social world. Today, Mashable’s Social Monopoly has us passing Go and buying Digg along with Twitter announcing their support for third party app advertising solutions. Social Media [...]

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Social Tuesday: New Twitter Media Feature & CardStar Adds Foursquare Support

27. July 2010

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Social Tuesday: New Twitter Media Feature & CardStar Adds Foursquare Support

In the social world today there are always plenty of news stories about the services people use to connect with each other, whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Flickr or any other platform of limitless possibilities. Today, we have Twitter testing a new functionality of the timeline including in-line pictures and videos and CardStar adding Foursquare [...]

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Twitter Publishing Shopping Deals Through Advertising Account?

4. July 2010

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Twitter Publishing Shopping Deals Through Advertising Account?

There have been a number of questions as to how Twitter might be able to monetize the monstrous user base it has. It has looked at a number of solutions, but this might be the best one yet: Setting up what are essentially advertising accounts that broadcast various shopping deals. It current has an @earlybird [...]

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New Futurama Takes Aim at iPhone, Twitter

4. July 2010

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New Futurama Takes Aim at iPhone, Twitter

Futurama is a former FOX animation comedy that has been resurrected on Comedy Central, and it hasn’t wasted anytime to offer up some topical jokes in its new season. In particular, the show takes aim at the iPhone and Twitter: Futurama Thursdays 10pm / 9c The Twit Worm www.comedycentral.com Futurama New Episodes Futurama New Episodes [...]

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How Twitter Responded to the iPhone 4 Launch

30. June 2010

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How Twitter Responded to the iPhone 4 Launch

Yes, we know sales of the iPhone 4 are spectacular with the 1.7 Million sold figure being tossed around for just the first 3 days since launch and that lines just to get one in your hands extended for up to 14 hours. How did Twitter respond, however? Mashable gathered a ton of data about [...]

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New York Times Editor Rages Against “Tweets”

12. June 2010

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New York Times Editor Rages Against “Tweets”

According to a MediaBistro report, one New York Times editor isn’t pleased with his staffers using the word “tweet”. Phil Corbett, the paper’s standards editor released the following memo to staffers: Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, “tweet” has not yet achieved the status of standard English. And standard English is [...]

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Grab a Hello Kitty Skin For iPhone Twitter App

5. June 2010

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Grab a Hello Kitty Skin For iPhone Twitter App

If you’re a big fan of the cartoonish and cute Hello Kitty and also a big fan of sending out tweets, you’re going to have to sit down and take a breath. There is a Hello Kitty Twitter client available for download in the App Store right now–all for the low price of $3.99. According [...]

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