The Social Gaming Industry Explained In 13 Words Ah-hah! Over the weekend, we finally discovered the perfect analogy to explain the booming virtual goods business. (The one that Electronic Arts just spent $400 million buying startup Playfish to get into.) The analogy came from Jimmy Fallon show producer Gavin Purcell, of all places. On Twitter, he wrote: "Casual Gaming is the Arcade business rising from the ashes of the 1980s." Why does this resonate so well with us? Arcade games made money by addicting people to simple games (like Pacman), introducing "friction" into these games (by making them harder after each level), and then charging small amounts of money to ease that friction (by allowing gamers to buy "lives.") That's what social games do -- charge people small amounts of money to reduce friction in games they are addicted to.
Resources AvidCareerist “No, I can’t do another social media anything!” you sigh. It’s OK. Really. I’m going to give you a very low maintenance way to establish your presence on Twitter. Go here to sign up for Twitter. Enter your full name. Now it’s time to craft your Twitter profile. To recruiters, Twitter is a target rich environment. Twitter profiles have the following sections: Name. Location. Web. Bio. Organizational Function (Finance, HR, Purchasing, etc.).Job Title (Engineer, Executive Assistant, Sales, etc.).Industry (Airlines, Consumer Goods, Nonprofit, etc.).Credentials (CPA, MBA, PhD, MD, JD, etc.).Software & Programming Languages (only those which are currently marketable please!). Check out these examples of bios that make it easy for recruiters to find you:
Des trackers BitTorrent libres bientôt interconnectés - Numerama C'est une constante dans toute l'histoire du P2P. A chaque fois qu'un outil d'échange de fichiers populaire a fermé, une solution plus difficile à contrôler et plus efficace pour les utilisateurs a pris la suite. Napster avait pour faille d'être très centralisé. Il a été remplacé par Kazaa, qui avait le tort d'être édité par une société commerciale condamnée en justice. Lui-même a été remplacé par eMule et par BitTorrent, qui ne sont contrôlés par aucune entité commerciale et ne présentent donc aucun point névralgique... "Si c'est la mort des .torrents, l'Histoire nous enseigne que quelque chose de mieux viendra (à la place)", avait prévenu le porte-parole de TPB, Peter Sunde, après l'annonce de la vente de The Pirate Bay. Rapidement, un autre tracker a fait son apparition sur le même modèle. Créé le 5 juillet 2009, le domaine renvoie à un serveur hébergé à Amsterdam. Ne restera plus alors qu'à faire la même chose pour les moteurs de recherche.
The Ultimate Twitter Toolkit - Reviews by PC Magazine Familiarize yourself with these powerful Twitter tools to become a Master Tweeter. Want to be a Twitter ninja? Hordes of new users are joining and dreaming up new uses for it. As they do so, Twitter is maturing into a viable alternative not just to blog platforms but to RSS readers, news aggregators, media-sharing services, and communication tools. All you have to do to unleash the full power of Twitter is follow the right users and have the right tools handy. A whole ecosystem of companies and apps has sprung up around the Twitter API, and while some of them are utterly stupid, others are incredibly useful and help you get more out of the microblogging service. Familiarize yourself with the powerful Twitter tools below and add the relevant ones to your arsenal to become a Master Tweeter. Twitter Clients by Platform: Windows: This robust Twitter client integrates with Facebook and offers a customizable dashboard with multicolumn view. Mac: iPhone: Windows Mobile: BlackBerry OS: Symbian:
Consumers' love of credit cards to return - Money - TODAYshow.com Consumers have weathered a tough couple of years, with the mortgage collapse, record unemployment and massive changes to the credit card industry. But the worst is behind us, say analysts and experts well-versed in financial fortune-telling. Here are their predictions for a (somewhat) brighter 2011. Prediction 1: A stabilizing economy; more consumer spending A number of factors will lead consumers to loosen their purse strings in 2011. Employment reports will be positive by mid-2011, according to Wells Fargo's Annual Economic Outlook for 2011. More from CreditCards.com: Erica Sandberg's best money advice of 2010 Prediction 2: The credit card makes a comeback If the credit card has been America's favorite villain, it's poised to make a comeback, in 2011 — at least for some Americans. If there is one dark spot, it's the fact that your credit cards will likely cost you more if you carry a debt. CreditCards.com: How to change financial bad habits in 8 steps © 2012 CreditCards.com
Leslie Fisher Measuring What Really Works on Twitter: Post Timing and Headlines (Photo: da100fotos)“What gets measured gets managed.” -Peter Drucker I like data and enhancing performance through following the numbers. I use half a dozen tools to track metrics on this blog, and I have similarly used tr.im to track click-through on Twitter links, demographic and geographic splits, etc.. I find retweets interesting, but only to the extent that they attract meaningful attention (not just impressions), which can be approximated with clicks on embedded links. In the last two weeks, I’ve found bit.ly to be more reliable and robust than tr.im. Below I’ve included my top-30 most-clicked Tweets from 12/21/08 to 2/13/09… I’ll present a number of findings first that I’ve observed across all the data gathered thus far (about 8 months across several tools), recognizing that the sample size for this approximate two-month period isn’t sufficient in and of itself. First, what are the best times to Tweet for maximum impact? For headlines, here are a few observations:
Billy Talent de retour avec "Rusted From The Rain" "Devil On My Shoulder" - un des titres du nouvel album de Billy Talent, actuellement disponible, avait déjà été dévoilé dans sa version live au début du mois de mars dernier. Voici qu'à présent le clip du premier single extrait du disque a fait son apparition : "Rusted From The Rain". Découvrez le teaser de Billy Talent, "Rusted From The Rain" : L'album "Billy Talent III" fait donc suite au précédent, "Billy Talent II", paru il y a déjà trois ans, et générant notamment les singles "Devil In A Midnight Mass" ou "Red Flag". La formation est originaire de Mississauga, dans l'Ontario, au Canada, mais les membres habitent désormais dans le centre-ville de Toronto. Par ailleurs, le groupe sera en concert à Paris au Trabendo, le 31 mai prochain.
Top Tips for Twitter Newbs « Phil Wain Being a Twitter newb myself, I might be better or worse placed to give tips. I have been using Twitter since the beginning of February about 8 weeks ago: so maybe ideally placed to remember the pitfalls and have used it long enough to get something out of it. Please leave comments if you disagree – Twitter has an evolving social etiquette. Take it slow! It takes a few weeks to build up enough people to follow to make it really interesting. Enjoy! What it’s good for is up to you! Like this: Like Loading... hyperWALLET - Payment Solutions for Global Commerce RockMelt - Your Browser. Re-imagined. Connect for an invitation.
35 ways to get more Retweets | The Twitter Tools Book Getting retweeted is a great way to extend your influence online. Retweets lead to more followers, more traffic to your links, and more influence for your brand. Getting plenty of ReTweets is part art, part science. To maximize your retweet potential your best bet is to have a catchy headline, clean English, and cool content to drive your tweet home. The tips below contain several of the best ways to help you get more Retweets. Try these tips out for yourself and watch as your tweets are retweeted far and wide! 1. A few years ago Twitter launched the official Twitter tweet button, which I like and use on all my blogs. Installing this button into every blog post your website makes it easy for people to share your content. Getting the code for a Twitter button is easy. You can grab one at: 2. If you have a tweet you want retweeted simply send a message to your friends asking them to retweet it for you. 3. When you repeat your tweet, mix it up. 4. 5. 6.
Nikola Tesla still alive after death Nikola Tesla is the man responsible for every form of modern technology we have available to us today. There would be no Twittering, Googling, BlackBerrys, cell phones, satellites in space, airplanes, x-rays, or physics as we know it. Did anyone remember Nikola Tesla on his birthday today? Nicolas Tesla was born on July 9th, 1856 at Midnight. One man certainly remembered Nikola Tesla this week, Dr. Ljubo Vujovic. It’s fascinating that Tesla has more notoriety for the lack of attribution given him than all his works combined. Many consider that the most obvious of reasons was that his inventions were way too progressive for the technical resources available and much too far advanced for humanity’s collective psyche at the time. Tesla told Morgan, "When wireless is fully applied, the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts." Tesla obviously predicted the birth of the Internet and our computers. Teleautomaton "In his lab at 46 E. Was he joking?