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Is it actually true that Blizzard Entertainment will make enormous amounts of money on the 5th edition of BlizzCon?

Blizzard Entertainment is a major publisher and developer of games and entertainment software. This American conglomerate, placed in California, is behind multiple ‘game of the year’ awards. Additionally it is also the owner and creator of battle.net, world’s first...

By Bart Brodzki on 09/10/10 Comments Off

Pink is the New Blog

One of the most popular personal blogs in Norway belongs to Emilie Nereng, a 14-year-old girl. On blogglisten.no, a ranking of the most visited blogs in Norway, she is number one with an average of over 68.000 visitors daily. Her...

By Marte Lindstrom on 09/09/10 Comments Off

The Wilderness Downtown: When New Media and Music Reinforce Each Other

Musicians are struggling, as they have always been. It seems to have to be part of the deal in one way or another. In the past decade or so however, things have gotten increasingly difficult for artists as the...

By Rosanne Sliuzas on 09/07/10 3

Recommendation vs Consumption in the social networks

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine published The Long Tail article in October 2004 to describe an statistic feature of some statistical distributions that affect to current and future business models. Since then, traditional marketing field has became totally...

By Susana Zaragoza on 09/26/09 1

How to ‘Blog’!?

For my first post here I did a little research on the ‘MofM way to blog’. And my general opinion is that a lot of posts are of interesting academic value, but at the same time often relatively dull....

By Ramses Petronia on 09/15/09 Comments Off

PROblogger: book review

PROblogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income INTRODUCION For some time now I’ve been interested in the eBook phenomenon for a couple of reasons: the business model that lies beneath it (how to make money by...

By Jasper Moes on 09/19/08 2