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Kids’ Online Game Moshi Monsters Hits 50 Million Registered Users

Posted by on June 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Two-year old online game Moshi Monsters has just reached a sizable milestone: 50 million registered users. Moshi Monsters is a social online game/community that allows kids 6 to 12 to adopt virtual pets, tool around a virtual land called Monstro City, play games to earn virtual currency and communicate with other kids in a moderated, [...]

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How Social Media and Game Theory Can Motivate Students

Posted by on May 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Patrick Supanc is the President of College and Career Readiness at Pearson, where he focuses on new market development, digital innovation and product strategy. He has been a teacher in Indonesia, an education policy adviser at the World Bank and UN, and led K-12 market development at Blackboard. Social media and online games have the [...]

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DJ Starpause Mixes Dance Tunes From PSPs, Game Boys

Posted by on May 24, 2011 · 3 Comments 

Jordan Gray makes music from the plinking tones of hacked handheld videogames. A former punk rocker who turned damaged toys into instruments during his high school years, he went on to make music with synthesizers and MIDI sequencers before settling on his current instruments of choice — a vintage Nintendo Game Boy and a PlayStation [...]

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Aircraft Carrier Deck to Host College Basketball Game

Posted by on May 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

College basketball on the deck of an aircraft carrier? It’s happening this November when North Carolina and Michigan State face off in the middle of the San Diego harbor. Wired Top Stories

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Nick Jonas Composes Soundtrack for Online Game

Posted by on May 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Nick Jonas is taking his music to a new world — literally. The youngest of the Jonas Brothers composed a seven-piece environmental soundtrack for popular online game Wizard 101‘s latest expansion world, Wintertusk. Instead of announcing Jonas’s contribution off the bat, the game has been teasing its fans and early testers with a “mystery composer” [...]

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A game theory of NFL negotiations

Posted by on May 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Off topic here, a bonus post for those that might be interested: When two sides are negotiating over something that spoils forever if it doesn’t get shipped, there’s a straightforward way to increase the value of a settlement. Think of it as the net present value of a stream of football… Any Sunday the NFL [...]

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