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Author Archives: Thomas Houston
Strange Things Are Afoot at the Googleplex
The path to success in social networking is tremendously difficult. The established players are so utterly dominant, and the services they provide seem to cover almost every conceivable need, that any exploitable niche remains, more or less, niche. Taken together, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (the top three social networks) cover 95% of the social networking [...]
Posted in Digital Media, Social Media, Uncategorized
Tagged Facebook, Foursquare, gmail, Google, Larry Page, LinkedIn, new media measure, Path, Pinterest, Polar Plunge, SEO, Social Media, twitter, youtube
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Nintendo 3DS: On Life Anew
We’ve covered Nintendo’s latest handheld with great interest here because the fate of the 3DS has many implications in the marketplace, and not just for gaming. As a consumer electronics product that has both a high quality 3D feature-set and affordability relative to other 3D options, the 3DS is an interesting case study for home [...]
Posted in 3D, Business, mobile, Video Games
Tagged 3D Report, DS, incharts, Mario, Mario Kart, new media measure, Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, Ocarina, Playstation Vita, Sony, Super Smash Bros, Wii, Zelda
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Online Gaming and the FPS
In the last two decades, the first-person shooter has been a bread and butter release for publishers and gamers alike. Every gamer has fond memories of hours spent blasting bad guys through the hero’s eyes. For publishers, these games have shown enormous capability to drive big-time sales. In the mid-to-latter half of the 90′s, the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Video Games
Tagged Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 3, Black Ops, Call of Duty, Counterstrike, Doom, Duke Nukem, FPS, Global Offensive, Goldeneye, Half-Life, Halo, Halo 3, Halo 4, Modern Warfare, online gaming, Video games
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Google Music Beta (a belated review)
The original iPod was first rolled out a decade ago this month, and it utterly transformed the way we consume music. It’s safe to say that digital music is rampantly popular; according to NMM Q2 data, 46% percent of consumers listen on a weekly basis–this number jumps to 94% among consumers that own at least [...]
Posted in Digital Media
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Cloud, Cloud Player, digital music, Google, iCloud, iPod, kindle fire, mp3, music
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Cell Phone Selection-Why Some People Prefer “Dumb” Phones
This week’s Data Point of the Week examines the main concerns consumers have when purchasing phones. These reasons are segmented by the specific type of phone purchased to glean some understanding on why phone owners purchased app-heavy smartphones, middle-ground messaging phones, or bare-bones basic phones. The range of factors for each of the three major [...]
Posted in Business, mobile, Uncategorized
Tagged Android, Apple, Cell phones, data plan, dumbphone, incharts, internet, messaging phone, mobile, phones, qwerty, smartphone
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Digital Gaming Downloads-Who’s in the Lead?
Given the recent dust up over Battlefield 3 being limited exclusively to EA’s own Origin download and distribution service, I felt we should take a quick look at the rise of the digital download market. As an industry, digital game distribution has grown 17% in the last year according to our New Media Measure data. [...]
Posted in Digital Media, Video Games
Tagged digital downloads, EA, Electronic Arts, games, new media measure, Popcap, Steam, Valve, Video games
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Mobile Device Convergence or How Apple Came to Rule the World
Today’s data point of the week (with brand-spanking new Q2 data!) captures an important movement in consumer technology. If it wasn’t already obvious, the multitude of available gadgets that have performed single functions are hitting e-waste collection bins in favor of smaller devices that are more competent in a vast number of functions. Technological advances [...]
Posted in Business, Digital Media
Tagged AAPL, Apple, Digital Camera, iPad, iPod, Laptop, Macbook, netbook, PC, Q2, Tablet, XOM
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3D Gaming Driving Wider 3D Interest
Eighteen months after Avatar was released and opened a tidal wave of 3D upselling, the entertainment industry is still looking for ways to innovate and sell the average consumer on 3D technology, especially in the home. Beyond home movies and televisions, gaming is the newest frontier for entertainment companies to push 3D, and it just may [...]
Posted in 3D, Business, Digital Media, Uncategorized, Video Games
Tagged 3D, 3D gaming, 3D TV, Avatar, microsoft, PS3, Sony, Xbox 360
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Nintendo E3 Roundup
E3 “Console reveal” years are always an important launching point for gaming devices where the public gets their first chance to meet and interact with new consoles. Nintendo’s new console was the biggest highlight marking the first leap into eighth-gen consoles. Nintendo certainly had fans on edge for the big moment and they delivered an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Video Games
Tagged 3DS, Battlefield 3, E3, EA, gimmicks, Mario, Nintendo, tablet-esque, Wii, Wii 2, WiiU, Zelda
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Nintendo 3DS-Games or Bust
In order to prepare for E3, which opens next week here in LA, we turned the focus of our weekly data point to the recently released Nintendo 3DS. The handheld gaming device was released in North America in late March to much hype and fanfare. Nintendo has always been the home run hitter in the [...]
Posted in Video Games
Tagged 3DS, bad puns, E3, Handheld Gaming, Mario, Nintendo, Nintendogs, Ocarina of Time, Video games, wizard
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