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Giving up Facebook for Lent
I’ve been training quite hard lately and contrary to common knowledge it would appear that exhaustion does not lead to blissful sleep… Another night awake, and what better way then to browse through Facebook and get updates from my friends and family round the world….Vote my baby isn’t she cute; Go Manchester United; Just spent [...]
Buy my love!
I woke up this morning to find a glorious $2.50 worth of Facebook credits on my Facebook account. Sweeeeet…. With an active user base of 235 million global monthly users - Social Gaming is forecasted to earn $400 Million in 2010. The purchase of virtual currency (c. 1.6 billion sold in 2010) as the revenue stream [...]
“the computer had come not to transform mass culture but to destroy it….”
- Henry Jenkins ‘Convergence Culture…’ Prior to the internet it was fairly easy to plan advertising and control it – eg don’t book where you don’t want to be seen. However with the proliferation and fragmentation of publishers on the internet (ergo every one is a publisher, even me!) . In an attempt to shape [...]