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Many suspect that the games in social networks - it is something from the category of silly fun. The developer Ian Bogost decided to prove it in practice. He created a deliberately dull game Cow Clicker and published it on Facebook. At this point in the game Cow Clicker There are about 20 thousand active users, the rating of 4.5 out of 5. Each player receives a cow and have to click the mouse on it every six hours. To get the right call more often, you can purchase additional credits for money. The social element is implemented through the neighboring cows, which can manage you invite users. If you have neighbors, your click is also added to their rating. In his blog, Ian Bogost explains that this game was created as a result of a dispute that broke out at the recent Game Developers Conference 2010 between creators normal appearances and those working in the niche social networks . According to the first, the company Zynga and others like her are using design philosophy "F*** ...

Trading Platform SecondMarket published statistics of trade in shares of private companies in the 2 quarter. 2010. This includes information about buying and selling shares, which are not traded on the open market. Seller was mostly former employees of companies. In 2 quarter. 2010 turnover on the Stock Exchange fell to $51 million (though only in March, were sold at $70 million), but the average value of the shares continued to rise. For example, shares of Facebook have already offered for $65, while in April they can be bought for $50. Shares Facebook constitute 64% of all traffic on the closed markets. Second place at Zynga (12%), followed by LinkedIn, Bloom Energy, and Silver Spring Networks (6%), Twitter and MobiTV (3%). In the second quarter in the list to purchase the application appeared in the action eGarmony, Groupon, Skype and Mozilla Corporation, although the supply of shares in these companies is absent.

Research company Compete published its latest analysis report generator of traffic. His results showed a new sensation - a social network Facebook bypassed internet giant Google and has become a major source of traffic on major Internet portals, such as Yahoo and MSN. Commenting on the news, experts agree that in the near future, social media can not replace search engines as a major source of traffic to sites. As one of the authors of the report, Dave Jovan, "people all spend less time looking through the Internet alone, and more - visiting different resources based on the recommendations of their friends or their preferences. This is one of the big trends that we saw four or five months ago. Submit Footage Clips to Shutterstock and make $$$!

World social revolution in the Internet was accomplished. Social networks possession of the masses, and themselves sotssetey the Internet becomes more and more. Last week, the list of social services addition of a new project - Google Buzz. Below we consider this event in the overall context of the socialization of the Internet. Social animal Man - animal social. This has long been identified yet Aristotle. Man does not like and do not want to be alone, he needs the society of his kind. We see around us many forms of social life, social, cultural and religious organizations, through which a person identifies, defines and implements its social status. Internet - Wednesday communicative. Technological development, and mass popularization of the Internet led to the socialization of relations between users of the World Wide Web. Accordingly, the demand has created a proposal and began to appear specialized social internet projects, collectively referred to "social networking". Th...

Gmail Buzz? Gmail Buzz? Scott noticed that when you create a label named “buzz” in Gmail, the app will tell you: “Sorry, you can't create a label named 'buzz' (it's a reserved system label). Please try another name” ... Google Gmail Buzz beu blog This new service launched today and provides a rich fast sharing experience combining public and private sharing all in your Gmail inbox. Inbox integration is a new feature that allows social interaction within Gmail . Buzz takes a ... Gmail Buzz Google Buzz allows users to “autofollow” contacts in their Gmail account. It allows users to share Tweets, photos and more! This new service launched t... Google Gmail Buzz Looking up the word “buzz” in Google, we get several definitions, like the following: “If a place is buzzing with activity or conversation, there is a. Google Buzz re-invents Gmail Social networks get all the attention, but email remains an important information console for many. That's why the introduction of...

Droid does Verizon recently aired a Droid Does commercial during the Yankees-Angels game on Saturday. This commercial does a good job of making the iPhone look bad. I. Motorola "Droid Does" Phone Slams iPhone In "iDon't" Ads Verizon have launched an offensive against the iPhone, with a new campaign called DroidDoes.com for their upcoming Motorola Droid Android smartphone. The handset, previously known by its codenames of Tao and Sholes, is being promoted as ... Verizon Motorola Droid Promotion Begins, It Does What iDoesn't ... The Verizon Wireless marketing department is playing this very, VERY well. Ever since the Motorola Sholes was rumored it has by FAR been the most. Droid Does Verizon | Gizmo and Gadget News Droid Does: I think we all knew Verizon would sooner or later be throwing caution to the wind in an effort to convince uncommitted smartphone purchasers in. Verizon's “Droid Does” Anti-iPhone Advertisemen...

Small.bog: AVG Sparks iTunes Trojan Horse Alert AVG, one of the most popular anti-virus programs, is causing confusion today by wrongly identifying iTunes files as trojans. After updating its virus. iTunes trojan horse small.bog Welcome to yellowsn0w. A great site for iPhone and iPod Touch users! AVG decides iTunes is the Small.BOG virus According to warning messages received by AVG users, iTunes.dll and iTunesRegistry.dll are infected with “Trojan horse Small.BOG”. The odd thing about the alleged virus is that at least according to the databases of other leading virus ... iTunes Trojan Horse Small.Bog | IT Mom's Corner Your antivirus is AVG and you tried to open iTunes and got an AVG Alert telling you that iTunes.dll and iTunesRegistry.dll are infected with "Trojan horse Small.BOG"? Well if you are planning of deleting these files, don't! this iTunes ... trojan horse small.bog !!! "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple Computer\Install...

In the days of turmoil business cuts back on staff costs and advertising - it is almost an axiom. However, the current financial crisis was the first time in nainoveyshee such events, where advertising spending fell in the traditional media, while the cost of advertising on the Internet virtually fallen (yet, at least). However, «within the internet» advertising budgets redistributed. Less money going to the banners, rich media, video, top sites, and other «beautiful». But more money spent on contextual advertising, BTL-how and advertising in Web 2.0 - blogs and social networks. Indeed, today the growing popularity of social communities, blogs of all kinds and mikroblogov, photo and videoobmennyh networks, where millions of people every day and spend their leisure time, offers almost limitless opportunities to advertise and promote the brands. Readiness for advertising revealed According to a study by marketing agency Universal McCann, which was conducted in 29 developed countries...

Even the most dramatic events often end without any noise and even more so without too much sensationalism. Since early spring, we witnessed the confrontation Internet companies Yahoo and Google with one hand and Microsoft in the company's odioznym billionaire investor Carl ICANN - on the other. Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo, or at least its search engine to increase its ryvkom little to date market share of Internet advertising. Yahoo, through its top managers desperately resisted. Google with its rejection of the organic business model Microsoft has actively supported Yahoo. Karl Ikan, though, and was the largest shareholder of Yahoo, stood on the side of software giant, with its own business interests. Passions Kipelov and should have reached the highest point on 1 August, at a key meeting of shareholders of Yahoo. Even in mid-May, Karl Ikan, representing a group of investors and controls nearly 5% Yahoo, promised change at the annual shareholders' meeting of the Board of Dir...

Facebook social network once again reminded of themselves, with a very unusual way. On the Internet lightning razneslis rumours that buy the world's largest social network plans to Mormonskaya Church ("Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of recent days"). The first reported by the Zak Klein, bloger videoservisa and founder of Vimeo. Klein referred to their own sources of information inside the company Facebook. A bit later another authoritative bloger Brady Brim-DeForest said: "I contacted an old friend, who works for one of the interested parties, and learned that this information may be truthful". The most interesting thing is that with the financial and legal standpoint, this transaction is possible. According to the magazine Time, already in 1996 financial assets Mormonskoy churches were $ 30 billion, and by 1999 its annual revenues exceed $ 5 billion, in turn, to date the market value of Facebook - from $ 5 to $ 8 billion However, wishing to buy Facebook , and...