The usage of online gaming sites has grown 27 percent during the past year to 86 million visitors in December 2008, while the total time spent playing online games increased 42 percent, according to comScore.American’s total amount of Internet time spent playing online games grew from 3.7 percent in December to 4.9 percent in December 2008.
Bad Economy Correlates With Need For Good Deals
The rule of thumb is correlation does not equal causation. If ice cream sales increase simultaneously with the crime rate, obviously one is not causing the other. As the newly admitted recession continues, fingers are wagging toward one cause or another, democrats blaming republicans and vice versa.
Google CEO And Obama Get Cracking On Economy
Economists and Wall Street types sent two clear messages this week in one simple statement: President-elect Obama needs to get his financial team working on the present crisis ASAP. The underlying message there is, obviously: Bush’s team is asses over elbows on this, and we can’t wait until January 20.
Twitter Throws Economy A Surprising Bone
Until somewhat recently, Twitter’s site seemed reluctant to stay in working order. The company still lacks an identifiable business plan. And the economy as a whole has been imitating the current president’s approval rating. But an encouraging new email hints that at least one small job market might be all right, after all.
Is The Economy Affecting Virtual Advertising Experiments?
As the news continues to pour in and the news media works hard to sell their wares (meaning the more terrible the news the more people pay attention) there are more victims to be counted in the carnage. This time the targets are the ‘darlings’ of the new world advertising and marketing including web video, mobile phones, gaming and virtual worlds.
SEO Marketing In An Uncertain Economy
With the economy in limbo what should search marketer’s focus on? Murdok spoke to Milind Mody, CEO of eBrandz Inc, an SEO and SEM firm, about online marketing and advertising.
A Tear In The Link Economy Fabric
For a decade and a half the outbound link was a "hat tip," a courtesy or even system of content reimbursement; the "Web" is a web because of linking, each quality website helping to prop up another. It was actually kind of socialist in nature.
Web Site Hopes To Predict Economy
The University of California-Riverside has launched an online prediction tool to measure how the weak U.S. economy influences people’s online behavior.The "Web of Misery" is an online research project that invites people to predict how much traffic will increase to sites focused on topics surrounding economic distress, such as religion, guns, substance abuse and gambling.
Online Publishers Doing Well In Slow Economy
Even with a sluggish economy online publishers are doing well and those with solid brands and quality content are poised to succeed according to the president of the Online Publishers Association.
Chinese Virtual Economy A Threat To Middleman
The Middleman may never be terminated, but he is cruisin’ for a bruisin’ in the digital age. The latest assault will come, surprisingly, from China, as the government unveils plans to produce a 3D virtual world that allows consumers to order directly from the manufacturer.