• 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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We Rule Brings FarmVille Goodness to the iPad, iPhone

4. June 2010

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We Rule Brings FarmVille Goodness to the iPad, iPhone

MediaBistro likes to compare We Rule to Twitter in that it is sticky and addictive, but occasionally unreliable. They also compared it to Facebook by stating that the rules often change without warning which is much like Facebook and its recent and ongoing privacy debacle. The good news is that We Rule is likely without [...]

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LG Ally’s Socialite Android App Combines Twitter and Facebook

31. May 2010

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LG Ally’s Socialite Android App Combines Twitter and Facebook

Earlier this month, LG launched the Ally phone with Android 2.1. The phone sports a fast processor, a custom UI and an app called “Socialite” designed for the avid Facebook and Twitter fan. Droid-Life found the most interesting part of the app: You can install it on any Android phone that runs 2.1 or higher. [...]

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OneRiot Offers a Deeper Look at Trending Topics

10. May 2010

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OneRiot Offers a Deeper Look at Trending Topics

Anyone who’s used Twitter will be familiar with the concept of Trending Topics – those hash-tags and phrases that appear on the right side of the screen, letting you know that, for one reason or another, they’re what’s popular in the world of Twitter at any one point in time. OneRiot, a real-time search engine, [...]

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Facebook Traffic Up 69%, Twitter Up 45%

7. May 2010

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Facebook Traffic Up 69%, Twitter Up 45%

Social networking in general grew 100% last year in a report from media data service Nielsen. Facebook and Twitter are still leading the pack with each gaining enormous amounts of users and internet traffic over the past year. Facebook saw the largest growth with 69% which could largely be attributed to the launching of several [...]

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Get Social With Your Kindle on Twitter and Facebook

3. May 2010

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Get Social With Your Kindle on Twitter and Facebook

Amazon is soon releasing an upgrade for the Kindle and Kindle DX that makes things a bit easier to share with the social web. The new version 2.5 update is being sent to a select few Kindle owners already but a broader release is expected for later this month. For what many such as PC [...]

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College Students Can’t Make it Without their Media

28. April 2010

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College Students Can’t Make it Without their Media

While not an official psychiatric disorder, many college students suffer from internet and media addiction. According to a study conducted by the University of Maryland, students that gave up their media connections had withdrawal symptoms similar to those of a drug or alcohol addict. They also experienced craving, anxiety and preoccupation which made it difficult [...]

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7 Ways Console Game Developers Could Be More Social

27. April 2010

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7 Ways Console Game Developers Could Be More Social

Many developers are moving into the social direction with increasing integration into services such as Xbox Live, PSN, Steam and the like. However, few are interacting with the social networking world that exists outside the console like Facebook and Twitter. Currently, Xbox Live features Twitter and Facebook as parts of their Xbox Live Gold Subscription [...]

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Hey, Look! A New Android Twitter Client: Sobees

23. April 2010

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Hey, Look! A New Android Twitter Client: Sobees

There are already several Twitter apps to choose from on the Android platform, but more continue to roll in every day promising new features  and new, prettier interfaces. Sobees is the latest client that has all of the most recent Twitter API goodness. Sobees offers access to multiple twitter accounts, posting of photos and geo-locations, [...]

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Social Media Continues to Pick Up Steam

17. April 2010

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Social Media Continues to Pick Up Steam

According to new research released by Nielsen Online, social media is continuing its rapid rise in use and reach. Nielsen surveyed 1,700 online users and found that 73 percent of those respondents engaged in some form of social media at least once at week. Of course, considering that the survey was held online, the numbers [...]

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Twitter Continues To Grow at Astronomical Pace

17. April 2010

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Twitter Continues To Grow at Astronomical Pace

We all know what an amazing success story Twitter has been from a traffic based perspective. Considering that their growth rate has resembled pretty much a straight vertical line upward, you would think it’d start to slow down–but it doesn’t appear that it is quite the case yet. According to data released by Twitter this [...]

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Twitter Donates Tweets to Library Congress

15. April 2010

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Yesterday on the Twitter blog, Twitter announced that they are looking to preserve all of our tweets in the National Library of Congress. “Since Twitter began, billions of tweets have been created. Today, fifty-five million tweets a day are sent to Twitter and that number is climbing sharply.” the Blog states. “A tiny percentage of [...]

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Twitter Getting Territorial with Geo-Tweets

15. April 2010

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Twitter Getting Territorial with Geo-Tweets

Remember Facebook’s alleged location features that are coming soon? Well, Twitter is moving in that area too following CEO Evan Williams’ announcement at Chirp. Now, Twitter is not a stranger to Geo-Location features in that they have had mapping features on twitter.com for a month or so and has given geo-location features to developers late [...]

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