Females are rarely treated with the same respect as males in the gaming industry, both in online and real-life interactions. Women working in the world of gaming aren’t taken as seriously as men. What continues to makes things even worse is the prevalent portrayal of females in video games: many are dressed in provocative clothing to accentuate extra-large busts, like the archetypal Lara Croft. Tammy Yap, a video game programmer for six years, says she asked one of her male colleagues (she was the only female) why women were always dressed like Vegas show girls. After all, this might offend some women and drive them away from gaming. The reply she received was: “What difference does it make? Women don’t play games.” Her colleague’s retort serves as a good example of the general attitude of most men when it comes to women gamers.

Unfortunately, female gamers aren’t getting their opinions attended to in the video game world. With so few women working in the industry, the video game market is close to being entirely ruled by men. Without having a female representative making her voice heard in the industry, female gamers won’t find as many games that they’re interested in on the market. Famous video game producer Denise Fulton thinks if more women played video games, then more women would start landing jobs in the industry. The consensus is that they would if more games were available that were more appealing to female players.

Playing video games is still branded as a boyish hobby. Women looking to enter the gaming industry already have it tough, but the rate at which they are finding jobs may stagnate if fellow female gamers aren’t willing to step up. Thankfully, this path has already begun being forged by prominent gaming women such as Morgan Webb and Denise Fulton, and indeed the evidence suggests the number of girls playing games is rising. Perceptions are already changing, and it may be only a matter of time before women’s presence in the game industry better reflects their growing numbers among players.

• NVIDIA Tegra 3: Next Generation in Games to Mobile Devices – November 10, 2011
• How To Mod Your Xbox 360 Game – June 28, 2011
• Raptr Is the Ultimate Gaming Service: Connects PSN, Xbox and More – May 16, 2011
• Shadow Guardian, Uncharted-like Game available for iPhone and iPad – November 28, 2010
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I quickly wanted to drop an article about the recent funding of Gigaom. Gigaom is a technology blog network that has managed to grab an additional $6 million in funding, which brings their total to $15 million.

Gigaom will use the new funding to push out their Gigaom Pro analysis service.

“We have demonstrated that paid content (not paywalls) can work, as long as you can provide value to your community,” Malik writes. ” Just as we never positioned GigaOM to compete with traditional media outlets, I believe we are charting our own course with our GigaOM Pro research service. “And it is working. It is working so well that we really need to put more gas in the engine to grow it even faster.”

Its great to see that blog networks are still thriving!

• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• WikiLeaks Needs Your Help To Take Down Corrupt Banks – October 24, 2011
• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Implications of Switching off the Internet – April 16, 2011

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I wanted to write a quick article here on Crenk to show how Google’s Panda update has hurt our site. I’m hoping that someone from Google actually reads this article and notices that there is still a big issue here!

Yesterday one of our authors wrote an amazing how to article titled: How to Download and Burn Hulu Movie to DVD.

The article is completely original, it’s over 400 words in length and provides a detailed step by step guide. This article is the epitome of original content!

I wanted to see where this article was actually ranking within Google for the keywords: burn hulu movie to dvd.

I would have thought that the original Crenk article would have been in the top 50 at least. However, after searching the top 100 article we didn’t appear. Bad times!

Then, I discovered that 4 websites scraping our content are ranking within the top 100, one even ranks just outside the top 10. How is this providing good search results?

It would be great if someone from Google could please take a look and let us know why this is happening!

• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
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• Yelp Walks Away from Google’s Half a Billion Dollars – December 22, 2009
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The internet has completely changed the way the modern human lives, works and communicates – but what if we turned it off?

Like the fabled imaginings of sci-fi movies, are we entering a new generation of technology that could potentially cause chaos with the way we live? Will Terminator like prophecies come true? Will the machines take over? Come-on, we need an answer! What type of capabilities will we have at our disposal in 20 years?

Just think of how far we’ve come, with regards to technology, in just two decades. We’ve vastly improved the motorcar to become cleaner, faster, safer and more intelligent. We’ve seen dial-up internet speeds become broadband, and now we’re entering the age of fibre-optic internet speed. We’ve seen the iPod, the introduction of the mobile phone as an entity, the birth of the Euro Fighter Typhoon; it’s been an intense and scarily quick change in the power of the technology we use every day. So, if all of a sudden, someone turned our beloved internet off, would we be too bothered? Well, simply put, yes!

On a daily basis we take for granted that we rely on the internet for so much instant information and answers to everyday questions. So much so that modern generations are seemingly unaware of the fact that such information also lies in print form in a public library.

It’s speculative to say that the younger generations would dislike any turn off the most, as the older generations who grew up with no internet could just go back to the old way of social networking – which, for the young ones reading, is meeting up, in person, and talking to each other in a verbal shared dialogue.

Social networking might be one thing, but there is a darker and more important concept to the internet – no, not pornography – but political conceptions. With the recent Wikileaks scandal causing untold embarrassment and shame upon our most famous and powerful political figures, could the world leaders decide on shutting the web down? The decision would be a brave one, but it is a way of controlling the masses, reducing political bias and blocking the bloggers.

We now think of the internet as we think of our car, home and electric – essential. It has become a fabric of life, our escape to another world and a way of keeping in touch with old friends – and looking at their photos to see if they’ve gone uglier. Just imagine all of that being taken away from you. You wake up tomorrow morning and you look at your iPhone to see what people are up to on Facebook but all you get is “no mobile internet service”. In a panic, you turn on your PC to find that either your modem is completely broken or someone has done the unthinkable and turned off the World Wide Web.

There would be worldwide riots, protest and unrest – similar to that in the middle-east at the moment. We would probably see many deaths, recessions in the majority of the western world and a drop off in industrial manufacturing. Many people would lose their jobs, homes and lives. It would be an absolute economic disaster.

However, as Bill Gates says: “It’s not that hard to shut the internet down if you have military power where you can tell people that’s what’s going to happen”…“Whenever you do something extraordinary like that you’re sort of showing people you’re afraid of the truth getting out, so it’s a very difficult tactic, but it can certainly be shut off.”

And if you think that actually turning the internet off would be difficult, think again…

All the government would have to do is ask the providers like Virgin, BT and Sky to turn them off and stop providing the service – that’s it! Just like that, every modem in the country would cease working. We would be without iTunes, Facebook, YouTube, pornography and Justin Beiber [– thank god].

Could you cope? Without trying it, we’ll never know, but one thing is sure, if that day ever presented itself, there would be a majority dislike to the decision, and it would be inevitable that heavy rioting and action would be taken by the public.

Think of the public as a collective and singular three-year old child who has just had its favourite toy taken from it – there would be hell to pay!

Guest post by: Amy Greenacre writes on behalf of Broadbandchoices.co.uk, for comprehensive and impartial advice on broadband phone and tv.

• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011
• GigaOM Adds $6 Million in Funding to Push High End Analysis Service – May 26, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Raptr Is the Ultimate Gaming Service: Connects PSN, Xbox and More – May 16, 2011

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Many companies that try to implement changes in their CRM procedures find themselves unsuccessful. They end up following leads which lead nowhere or losing money on their new procedures instead of making more money. What are some of the pitfalls that can account for poor CRM results?

The number one reason that CRM plans fail is that the company forgets to keep its focus on its goals. It is easy to get caught up with strategies to enhance your business and actually forget about your bottom line. Is what you’re doing actually leading to higher profits? Or are you spending so much money attempting to re-design your customer service that you’re actually making your business less profitable? Are you focusing too hard on increasing your numbers – new impressions, visitor length on your websites, etc. – and not enough on the number which counts most, your profits?

What you do with your CRM needs to save you money and it needs to make you money.

The second biggest reason for CRM failure is not giving your employees time and means to adjust to the changes in how you’re doing business. Your plan is only as good as its implementation and even the best plan can fall short of its goal if your employees don’t have a clear understanding of how to carry it out. Spend some time on training and your results will improve.

What are some areas you can focus on to improve your CRM?

Ensure that your customers can reach you through multiple channels with ease. This can have an enormous impact on your bottom line. Focus on bringing your CRM procedures into full force in front office interactions. Remember that in the modern era, the front office no longer just refers to a physical space, but also your presence on the World Wide Web. Social networking is a particularly significant method of reaching customers; it’s a great place to find leads and also to keep in touch with your old customers. Again though, it’s important to iterate that following leads can be distracting and lead to a lack of focus – don’t give in to this temptation. If your lead-following tactics are generating a higher bottom line, stick with them. If they aren’t, it’s time to revise your plans. Retaining current customers should always remain a priority; it costs your company less and they are more likely to buy again than any single individual elsewhere is to purchase for the first time. Utilize the web to streamline customer experience by offering customers the ability to engage in eCommerce with you. The software you use, even though it’s automated, should be considered part of your CRM plan. It should simplify the customer’s experience and offer transparency. Online shops cost almost nothing to maintain and can bring in incredible revenue. Make it easy for customers to provide you with feedback; welcome their suggestions and questions and always respond in a timely manner to their requests.

CRM is a critical component of any business plan. Most CRM failures are due to poor focus. So long as you keep your goals in clear view and ensure that your customer service tactics are directly impacting your net profits, you will succeed in Customer Relationship Management in 2011.

After spending time at firms specializing in both traditional and interactive marketing, Spencer recently started his own company, Lumin Internet Marketing. Lumin provides an array of online marketing services including search engine optimization, social media marketing, and online public relations

• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011
• GigaOM Adds $6 Million in Funding to Push High End Analysis Service – May 26, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Implications of Switching off the Internet – April 16, 2011

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• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011
• [infographic] The Brutal Decline of Yahoo! – November 27, 2010
• Yahoo Mail Gets International Expansion into New Markets and More Languages – December 7, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011

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The use is quite simple as well: enter a keyword and click analyze. The tool will return a list of words that were found to be related to that word and highly ReTweetable. It will also display the number of Tweets and ReTweets analyzed to generate the list. Here’s an example of “Microsoft” keyword:

We can find some words like “kinect”, “gaming”, “camera”, “ironruby” or even “fetish” (?).

The tool compares words found in ReTweets against non-ReTweet Tweets. Using the last 24hours, the tool analyzes up to 1500 Tweets and 1500 ReTweets per word.

If you are interested in retweeats, Dan created a report: “The Science of ReTweets”

• Measure your Influence Level in Twitter – September 12, 2010
• How to Handle Several Twitter Accounts – September 19, 2010
• Your First Tweet and Your First Follower – July 28, 2010
• Facebook Reaches Quarter of a Billion – July 16, 2009
• Use Tweetrush for Your Twitter Addiction – September 3, 2008

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The thing that annoys me about all this jazz concerning global warming and emissions is the fact that the politicians are addressing all the right problems bar one. The most important one at that.

The image. As of now, it’s not cool for an 18 year old to hop into a tiny lithium powered car to go to college. But I think if they spent more time creating a sense of image and maybe lowered the driving age for electronic vehicles (in European countries) to sixteen and slashed insurance costs because it’s not like they’re going to be speeding any time soon, then these things would take off as cheap, viable forms of transportation. Right now, they’re hippy mobiles and uncool.

Unfortunately for mother nature, we don’t live in a dictatorship and nobody is just going to go out and buy these things to solve what is an invisible and speculative problem. What we need is for three-wheeled electronic, two-seater cars to be cool. Much like the Volkswagen Beatle and camper van were popular back in the 50s and 60s.

• MSI’s Tablet Will Compete With Apple’s iPad – January 29, 2010
• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011
• GigaOM Adds $6 Million in Funding to Push High End Analysis Service – May 26, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011

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Remember a few weeks ago, right around the time of CES, when everyone was yammering on about the Apple iPad. All the other prospective touch screen tablets which were ‘up and coming’ took a back seat. The HP Slate was given the cold shoulder and the MSI 10-inch tablet? Forget it.

Now however, the sobering release of the real Apple iPad (not the wishy-washy dreams of Apple fan boys) have us looking at the competition. And according to DigiTimes, MSI’s tablet will retail at a pricy $500. Ouch.

However, I do smell a level of success for this one. You see, the iPad has been bombarded with criticism for being an oversized iPod Touch. Everyone wanted a slim, touch screen computer but that just didn’t happen. MSI might fulfil the prophesy.

It’s got a desktop much like that of your standard PC and has numerous ports and external ports. It’s not as sleek looking as the overgrown iPod iPad but it does have an aura of practicality about it.

This is a tough one to call. And to be honest, it’s destiny (and perhaps even that of the HP slate) relies on how well publicity goes for the iPad over the next few weeks. If the launch goes well and people get over the iPod feel, then MSI might be in trouble. If things keep going as they are though, then the MSI tablet might just be the next big hit for portable touch screen computing!

• Electronic Cars – Concepts But No Cigar – March 2, 2010
• IPHDAVAD The All In One HDMI and USB Port for Your iPhone and iPad – November 28, 2011
• Watch YouTube Playlists on iPad – November 27, 2011
• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• iPad Features Are Terrible When Compared to HP TC 1100 from 2003 – September 29, 2011

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Toshiba have just announced the arrival of their new TV – what must be the most powerful TV in the universe. It’s called the Cell TV and is available in 55 or 65 inch versions. Don’t it look good?

Well it’s the insides that I’m more concerned about. They have crammed in multiple eight-core processors which all combine to make it more powerful than ten average desktop computers and 143 times faster than rival televisions. Impressive right? Toshiba think so too.

The possibilities of what we can do are really endless,” said Scott Ramirez, vice president of marketing for Toshiba’s TV group, during a press conference.

The TV is also connected to the internet via WiFi or an Ethernet cable allowing content to be downloaded and streamed. You can also browse the net and hold video calls by using the inbuilt video camera and microphone.

2010 has been dubbed the year of 3D TV, well this TV has a processor which makes normal TV ‘jump’ out of the screen at you. This includes things like football which was thought too complex and fast-paced to be made 3D just a few years ago.

This TV will go down in the history books as a turning point in home entertainment, home computing and technology in general.

• HDMI 3D Glasses Released to the Public – February 10, 2010
• Sony Bravia is A Monolith of Beauty – January 30, 2010
• First Google+ TV Advertising: Sharing, but like real life – November 25, 2011
• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011

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What happened?

Well nobody knows for sure but it must have taken something big for Yelp to walk away from half a billion dollars and pressure from internet giant Google. My guess is that another offer has been tabled. Obviously, Yelp wan to keep their cards close to their chest should this deal fall through and need to go back to Google. Perhaps one of Google’s rivals such as Microsoft or Apple have decided they want Yelp?

• Google is Offering $4 Billion Dollars to Buy Twitter? – November 20, 2010
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• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
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• Google Can Now Buy and Sell Energy – February 23, 2010

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Reading a great article from NY Times about drivers and texting messages got me thinking about some of the obvious and wrong things that happens in our lives and we choose to ignore them. The article refers to what I think it’s an important news for Utah’s citizens: Texting behind the wheel can take up to 15 years of prison. Sounds too much for you? Too little?

Here’s an important part of the article: “The new law, which took effect in May, penalizes a texting driver who causes a fatality as harshly as a drunken driver who kills someone. In effect, a crash caused by such a multitasking motorist is no longer considered an “accident” like one caused by a driver who, say, runs into another car because he nodded off at the wheel. Instead, such a crash would now be considered inherently reckless.

“It’s a willful act,” said Lyle Hillyard, a Republican state senator and a big supporter of the new measure. “If you choose to drink and drive or if you choose to text and drive, you’re assuming the same risk.”

I really like the last phrase, if you choose to text and drive you are assuming the risk. Isn’t that the real problem? People that do not take full responsibilities about their own acts? If you decide to text while you are driving, how can you be absolutely certain that you are not causing and accident? Are you decided to bet your life on it?

Also the NY Times posted a video about this topic, the distracted drivers and the common behaviors. That includes a small review for a research made by a Utah university, simulations about driving and texting and how and where do they focus while they are doing these tasks all together.

The law sounds great for me, but if you start thinking about it, you will find several legal holes in it, the most important one: You can easily detect drunken drivers with a breath analyzer, but how can you detect a texting driver? Also the law doesn’t say anything about calling during driving nor using other devices, like GPS.

What do you think? Do you think that these accidents should not be consider as such since you can prevent them?

• Yelp Walks Away from Google’s Half a Billion Dollars – December 22, 2009
• Chinese Game Server Administrator Arrested for DDoS Attack – August 30, 2009
• Facebook Reaches Quarter of a Billion – July 16, 2009
• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• Hong Kong Apple Store Tour – October 3, 2011

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The results are very interesting, here are some quick facts:

• More than twice as many people go online to socialize (82%) than to do business (39%) or shop (31%).
• 72% of people go online just to become part of a community.
• More men (42%) than women (36%) go online to do business.
• Women (91%) are much more likely to go online to socialize than men (73%).
• A majority of youths 55% go online to just to play games.
• More than half of seniors (65%) go online to be a part of an online community.
• Almost half (48%) go online to entertain others.

And even more, if you want you can also review the full results with more specific data.

How do they collect this data? Well this report is updated on quarterly basis, the sample is a minimum of 500 American adults. The index is calculated on the basis of how frequently this people is going online for 295 reasons or intents.

We’ve discussed before about how teenagers do not prefer twitter, and even though in the results shown in this site could be consider quite general, the statistics caught my attention:

• 82% go online to socialize. No surprise there, where it would be Facebook if that wasn’t true?
• 72% go online just to become part of a community. What can you say about it? Maybe a constant feeling of people to be included in some group, or self esteem issues?
• 55% of youths go online just to play games. Well I didn’t see that number coming, I was hoping around a 30% maybe? And the rest to socialize.
• 65% seniors go online to be a part of an online community. I’m not sure which age represents “seniors” but it is a great thing that elders are always trying to catch up with technology.

And what about you? Do you have your stats?

• Use Tweetrush for Your Twitter Addiction – September 3, 2008
• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011
• GigaOM Adds $6 Million in Funding to Push High End Analysis Service – May 26, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011

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To make a quick review about the story: A Chinese guy (with the surname of Bing) from a cotton factory offered online gaming with some private servers that he bought. So far, nothing out of the ordinary, there are thousands of these types of unlicensed gaming servers. And of course, this underground business usually involves some underground behaviors; Bing’s servers were being attacked by other gaming servers rivals, causing him to lose money. So he decided to strike back their rivals with some DDoS attacks.

Bing spent nearly u$s41.000 on these attacks, renting 81 servers only for this task, but they were ineffective. So they decided to ask for more help, that’s when the attacks collapsed DNSPod that not only served for Bing’s rivals servers, also serves several Internet companies in China.

Although police rarely have the jurisdiction or training needed to pursue such a case, officials confirmed the detention of four individuals, including Bing. Here’s the official report.

These attacks are not uncommon in these days, as we’ve said in this previous post. It is a good thing that authorities are tracking down these criminals.

• Yelp Walks Away from Google’s Half a Billion Dollars – December 22, 2009
• New Law for Texting Distracted Drivers – September 2, 2009
• Facebook Reaches Quarter of a Billion – July 16, 2009
• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• Hong Kong Apple Store Tour – October 3, 2011

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The momentous figure was officially announced on the official Facebook blog by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Just a few months ago they celebrated reaching the 200 million mark by launching the non-profit organization Facebook for Good. Now however, they are changing tactics for what should be a huge blowout party –they’re doing nothing except carrying on with their work.

Apparently, they are now trying to make the service more accessible on mobile devices as the growth of Facebook is now largely coming from international countries where people are more likely to access the social network on their mobile devices like the iPhone or Blackberry.

“Today as we celebrate our 250 millionth user, we are also continuing to develop Facebook to serve as many people in the world in the most effective way possible,” Zuckerberg wrote. “This means reaching out to everyone across the world and making products that serve all of you, wherever you are–whether through Facebook Connect, new mobile products and the other things that we are building.”

As we have seen with Twitter, failure to keep the ball rolling can lead to growth rates dropping like a rock. Facebook seem to be doing a good job. The next six months will be a challenge because as a ball gets bigger, its harder to roll.

• Free Black Icons Set for Social Media and Twitter – September 12, 2010
• Most ReTweetable Words Finder – August 8, 2010
• Social Media Demographics – July 9, 2010
• Digg’s Traffic Slump – December 30, 2009
• Web App Buffers Timely Online Communication – November 6, 2009

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Sony is still trying to make a revolutionary product release that they didn’t have particulary since the first portable audio player hit the market. They are having a rough year (first annual loss balance in 14 years) and they don’t have so great expectations for next year either. Most of the hopes are placed in PlayStation 3 (mainly based on two things, the release of the slim version and waiting for the blu-ray to become a real home standard), and also the portable new console PSP Go!

Getting back to the walkman’s story, here’s a quick and funny image that a friend of mine sent me today:

• Sony Rumored to Release iTunes Competitor – September 1, 2010
• E3 2010: New Games – June 15, 2010
• Introducing the PS Vita – June 8, 2011
• Geohot Takes Donations to Flee the Country and Skip His Sony Court Battle – March 24, 2011
• Playstation Move Could Be Moving Onto a PC – February 3, 2011

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Within the articles Scott will guide you to the entire process about how to build this machine. Including all the tips regarding to the materials used, where to buy them, etc:

The Complete Series

1. Cabinet and Power
2. Monitor and Mounting
3. Control Panel
4. Sound and Lights
5. Paint and Art
6. Computer Hardware and Software
7. Success and Conclusion

Here’s a video that gives you a tour to the entire process:

Here are some of amazing facts about it:

• Cost = $441. Yep, only 441 dollars. But there are some disclaimers about it, for example, the monitor was recycled from an old one. But still, sounds like a great number to me.
• The work hours took him around 24 hours total, divided in six weeks. I know what you are thinking, if you start building it right now, by this time tomorrow you’ll have it all set

Don’t tell me that you are not considering the idea!

• Converting your Tablet in an Arcade Machine -For Real!- – April 29, 2010
• iCade: iPad Arcade Cabinet – April 27, 2010
• 95 percent of Blogs are Abandoned – June 9, 2009
• Women in the Video Game Industry – October 25, 2011
• How to Take Your Blog to the Next Level – July 16, 2011

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10% of the Twitter accounts hold the 90% of the tweets available every day, and most of the users that register themselves usually uses one or two tweets and leave the account completely. Here are some other stats from the report:

So, what we can say about this inconsistency in blogs and twitter? People that start a blog and/or a twitter account but they never update it again… well I’m sure that the answer is one thing, perseverance it’s not a quality for most of us. Specially when we have some expectations and we don’t see a quick result, like I mentioned about blogs and how people relate to that as a “financial independance” and rapidly get disappointed.

Do you persevere with your blogs and twitter?

• Create a Screencast and Share it in Twitter – November 7, 2010
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• How to Handle Several Twitter Accounts – September 19, 2010
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Richard Jalichandra, chief executive of Technorati, said that at any given time there are 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but it’s probably between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views.

But why is this happening? Why people just suddenly looses motivation to write or share experiences, information, articles, etc? The article also remarks that people usually confuse the idea of blogging as a fast way to financial independence and rapidly find themselves discouraged.

But, besides the possible financial disappointment, is it twitter related to this? In a small way, I think.

Over an year ago (maybe more) when I started to hear about Twitter I found this short comic (from Gapingvoid), metioned also on an old post of mine about Twitter:

For some cases, I’m sure this is a very realistic comic. After all, Twitter it is a way of micro blogging, share information and (current) experiences. And it is easier and simpler to keep updated your Twitter account instead of your blog. It is the same? Absolutely not.

Blogging is so much richer, states as a permanent document (Twitter also does, but not so friendly to review them), or even as your historical experience in a given subject. It’s all about sharing: information, opinions, expertiece, experiences, etc etc.

My take? Never stop blogging.

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The tracking can even break down by the hour of usage:

No matter how you slice, it, Tweetrush is an excellent tool for measuring your addiction, providing useful information on usage, but ultimately also reveal just how much of your life Twitter has taken over. Give it a try and learn to live with the addiction, Twitter is not going anywhere soon!

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