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Submission + - Women Remain The Ignored Audience In Gaming (industrygamers.com)

Submitted by donniebaseball23 on Thursday June 16, 2011 @05:59PM

donniebaseball23 writes: Research firm Interpret has released its new report, “Games and Girls: Video Gaming’s Ignored Audience”, which finds that while the female audience in gaming has grown, games tailored to their needs and preferences continue to go missing. Women represent 50% of the market and their usage of HD consoles like Xbox 360 and PS3 is rising. "It remains to be seen whether developers and marketers will effectively invest in understanding and exploiting the undertapped female gaming market," said Courtney Johnson, analyst for Intrepret.

Submission + - Browsing the Body (googlelabs.com)

Submitted by ColdWetDog on Thursday December 16, 2010 @10:21PM

ColdWetDog writes: Google labs has an interesting new line of business — human anatomy. The Google Body Browser is a 3D representation of the major pieces parts of the human body. Based on the well known and very expensive Zygote 3D artwork, you can zoom in, rotate, view the various organ systems (bone, internal organs, nerves) in various states of transparency. Very much like Google Earth in both execution and concept.

Written with HTML5, it requires WebGL to work. Firefox 4 beta seems to work fine. Google, of course, recommends Chrome.

Neat.

Submission + - Analysts to Wikipedia: Just Accept Ads Already 1

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @11:19PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "Large images of Jimmy Wales have for weeks dominated each and every page on Wikipedia, making Wales arguably the single most visible individual on the planet. Now Molly McHugh writes that Wikipedia is once again pleading for user donations with banners across the top of its site with memos from purported authors and this week, Wales stepped up the shrillness of his rallying cry by adding the word "Urgent" to his appeal. Wales attempted the same request for donations last year, and failed to meet the company’s goal until Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar donated $2 million and Google stepped in with another $2 million gift to the foundation. This time around the foundation is approximately $7 million short of its 2010 fundraising goal, and Wikipedia analysts are saying the site would be better off with a marketing scheme as Alex Konanykhin of WikiExperts explains that the donations-only, no-commerce model restricts Wikipedia to relying exclusively on free volunteers, losing opportunities to involve qualified professionals who charge for their time in addition to the thirty staff members already on the Wikimedia payroll. "Advertising is not cool. You're not as cool if you have advertising. But you know what else is not cool? Begging," writes Jeff Otte. "We do not care if there is advertising on Wikipedia, so long as it is not ridiculously invasive. So please, replace your sensitive mug with a Steak 'n' Shake ad or something, and start making advertisers pay for people to have stuff for free and not feel bad about it. It's the Internets way.""

Journal Journal: Facebook tracks everyone through the "Like" button on sites 11

Journal by tomhudson on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @10:01PM

From the groklaw.net sidebar

[PJ: Be aware that this scholarly paper, Facebook Tracks and Traces Everyone: Like This!, says that any time you visit a page with a Like button, a cookie is placed on your computer, and harvested by Facebook, so you can be tracked from that day forward, whether or not you are a Facebook member: "When a user does not have a Facebook account, there is no cookie and no user ID available. In this case, a visit to Techcrunch.com includes an HTTP GET re

Comment Re:firefly? (Score 1) 684

by evlgt85 on Saturday September 24, 2005 @07:57PM (#13641050) Attached to: Top 50 Science Fiction TV Shows

Blake's 7 made it around in syndication here and there. When I was a kid in St. Louis, it was on our PBS station. I don't know what percentage of PBS stations around the country picked it up, but I think that's where it stood the greatest chance of being aired. I absolutely loved the show and...yes...went to a Dr. Who/Blake's 7 convention once... :) If these folks could list one-season-wonders, they really should have known about Blake's 7.

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