In recent years I have discovered more interesting people and really developed new knowledge than I ever could anticipate. You could say I’ve become a book-worm, and fully realized how much information the web contain. Who needs collage and university when you can find it online? Almost everything forth knowing is online, if not its [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Brands in social media
Posted by Daniel on March 6, 2008
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A post at Search Engine Watch broth up the topic of how to think when considering to use and work with social media to increase your brand value. Social media has become one of the hot buzz words in later years. Example of social medias are: forums, communitys, wikis and message boards, basically places were [...]
Decrese in Search Marketing, but still the future
Posted by Daniel on March 6, 2008
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It seems to be a decrease in the Search Market right now. According to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, the Google stock have fallen lately and one reason could be a decline in Sponsored Ads clicks. Adwords, the program to manage ones Sponsored Ads is the money making machine which built Googles whole economy. Yahoo! [...]
Swedish media, learn to differentiate games and gamble
Posted by Daniel on March 6, 2008
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One thing that really bothers me is how the Swedish media won’t differentiate computer/videogames from gambling. In Sweden the word “Spel” can mean both games and gamble. And often I read the headlines in Swedish news paper they often use the word “Spel”-company, but I have to continue down to the maintext to understand which [...]
EA, Rock Star and Jack Thompson, what a mess
Posted by Daniel on March 6, 2008
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Anyone remotely interested in the game industry most have heard the words Grand Theft Auto, Electronic Arts and Jack Thompson, mostly the first and last in the same senesce or context. Altou not always (never?) in a positive context, and the story’s usually revolves around the same subject, the violence in video games. Grand Theft [...]
Games steal music money?
Posted by Daniel on March 5, 2008
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Figures from the UK shows (not unexpected) the increase in game sales and revenue from 2005 till 2007, while at the same time the music business loosing money, not ether unexpected. For many years now the discussion has been whether games have taken sales shares from the music industry. I would say yes! Its a [...]
A Boondocks comment on Videogame Violence
Posted by Daniel on March 3, 2008
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The discussion on violence in video games seems to never end. Everytime I hear news of a school shooting, were ever in the world, I directly expect anti-games politics and idiots to make a statement accusing videogames as the reason behind. Which I just find sad and ignorant! And yesterday I found this strip from [...]