Recent Articles by Douglas Crets
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Glitch Turns Community into Game
Butterfield told us he wants to flip the model for online games by creating a gaming environment that is more about creating culture and less about the game. So far, 27,000 people have played the game, accumulating around 34 million minutes of testing. Glitch challenges multi-player online games…
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Asking the Cloud Doctor
The launch is focused on the growing health & lifestyle app channel in the Apple app store and in the Android market. The app is a Q&A platform that helps users find health information written by local physicians. The company says it has 5,000 physicians signed up for "virtual practices." The…
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Infographic: Facebook Out-Clocks Google
The chart is still impressive. It suggests that social is more important to people on the Internet, something that Google was trying to harness with the launch of Google+ and Circles only a few months ago. it shows that in the third quarter of this year, Facebook crossed the line occupied by…
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Facebook Rounds Up Small Biz
This signals a push by Facebook to steer small businesses towards using social as their main advertising category. It also indicates that Facebook is ready to use changes to how Facebook operates to bulk up advertising inventory and its revenue streams. Facebook already makes an estimated $4.05…
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Amazon Loads Up on Video
Currently, the iPad has a lock on the tablet marketplace with apps like Netflix, Crackle, and Hulu+. When, or if, Amazon launches a tablet on September 28, that primacy may be challenged. Amazon will have a whole new channel open for Prime subscribers, who pay $79 per year for streaming content. A…
