TheWayoftheWeb

I’m beginning to think the fad for social networks is going to start to fade shortly. It’s reaching the mass market, and almost every niche is getting blanket coverage by a range of sites. Almost everything you can think of is being covered in one form or another…
To paraphrase from a film ‘ All the [...]

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Sounds optimistic?
South Korea’s Cyworld has 20 million, World of Warcraft 8 million subscribers, and Habbo Hotel has 7 million. That’s 35 million for three products.
The research comes from tech research group Gartner’s.
Gartner’s describes a these virtual worlds and still mainly PC based, but also accessible by PDA’s and phones etc…
Shame, because there’s another 3-6 million [...]

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Well, Facebook has now deleted one of my accounts. Annoyingly, I can’t access the email account I registered with until tomorrow, to find out if they actually explained anything.
Thinking about customer retention, I was looking at Xbox Live last night, and realised that now, only game demos appear to be freely downloadable, and everything else [...]

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Microsoft has set a date for the long-awaited connection between the six million console games on Xbox Live, and PC gamers running Windows.
Windows LIVE launches on May 8 with the Vista version of Halo 2, followed by Shadowrun in June and Uno later in 2007.
It’s a long expected move to boost both the online service [...]

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