Zynga CTO: We turn on 1,000 new servers a week for FarmVille and other games | VentureBeat
The social-gaming juggernaut, responsible for some of the most popular social games on Facebook like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, is responsible for handling a deluge of traffic from the roughly 10 percent of the world’s Internet population who play its games. Zynga can add up to 1,000 new servers each week and has begun expanding [...]
14 fun facts about text messaging [infographic] – Holy Kaw!
14 fun facts about text messaging [infographic] – Holy Kaw!.
Video games: The skills from zapping ’em | The Economist
The non-gaming volunteers were put through 50 hours of video-game training. For some this involved playing fast-action shoot-’em-up games such as “Call of Duty 2” and “Unreal Tournament”, but others were given a slow-moving life-strategy game, “The Sims 2”. The researchers found that those trained with action games raised their performance to the level of [...]
Is Geo-Local the Answer to the Local Advertising Quandary? «
The long tail is the enemy of local advertising. That statement pretty much sums up why almost all local advertising efforts have been non-starters. It’s the web’s ultimate chimera. You see, anyone can start a local website, but in the end, because local content is relevant only to a very small section of society, national [...]
Future Dweller Nick Bilton on What Newspapers Can Learn from Porn – DailyFinance
Future Dweller Nick Bilton on What Newspapers Can Learn from Porn – DailyFinance.
YouTube – Wii-DS.nl TV – Super Mario 25th Anniversary / Birthday – The History!
YouTube – Wii-DS.nl TV – Super Mario 25th Anniversary / Birthday – The History!.
Americans Spending More Time Following the News: OVERVIEW – Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Americans Spending More Time Following the News: OVERVIEW – Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Your Media Habits, Explained by Science – Media – GOOD
Peter Renfrow, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, tracked the media consumption habits of 3,000 people and used the results to propose that there are essentially five types of media: communal, aesthetic, dark, thrilling, and cerebral. How you score on these dimensions, presumably, determines what you like to read or watch. via Your [...]
YouTube – Wall Street Journal takes on New York Times 華爾街日報單挑紐約時報
YouTube – Wall Street Journal takes on New York Times 華爾街日報單挑紐約時報.