Mail Day with JJ, 3.29 | 2K Sports Presents High School Hoop Powered by Dime. Words. Jason Jordan Reggie Bullock Where will Josh Selby end up? Austin Rivers looking at more schools? Reggie Bullock comparisons? Jason Jordan has fielded all of your e-mails and tackles each of these questions and more in this installment of “Mail Day with JJ.” Austin Rivers opening the flood gates? So I’m a little pissed because I’m a die-hard Duke fan and now I’m hearing that Austin Rivers (Winter Park, Fla.) is about to let UNC, Texas and Kentucky jump in on his recruitment! It’s all a part of the recruiting game. Rivers is smarter than that. . * When asked who was gonna win the Duke-UNC game: “Duke!
* When asked about Duke’s Big Three: “Those guys have Duke’s swag turned all the way up right now.” TRUST, I could go on… Point is, you could be in a much worse position right now. UK or KU for Selby? You probably get more info about the prospects than fans do. Sam, my friend, you are the man! Moving on, you’re going to put me on the spot, aye? Why is Knight toying with the Cuse? La NFC promise à un bel avenir dans le secteur du paiement mobile. La technologie de communication en champ proche pourrait devenir le premier moyen de m-paiement d'ici à 2015, souligne Frost & Sullivan. La technologie NFC (near field communication, ou “technologie en champ proche”) deviendra l’un des standards du paiement mobile dans les quatre prochaines années, affirme Frost et Sullivan dans une étude.
Selon les chiffres avancés par les analystes, ce sont plus de 860 millions de mobiles équipés de cette technologie qui seront vendus d’ici à 2015. A la fin de cette période, les appareils nomades embarquant ce moyen de communication seront même majoritaires dans ce marché. Ils compteront pour 53 % des appareils vendus. L’enquête relève que le total des paiements via les NFC sur les mobiles va atteindre 110 milliards de dollars en 2015, tous pays confondus. Gagner la confiance des utilisateurs Et plus de 40 milliards en Europe. Un écosystème en devenir. Appbistro Announces Appstores.com White-label App Store Platform. App marketplace for Facebook pages Appbistro has expanded its scope today and announces its transition to Appstores.com. Like a non-enterprise Appia, Appstores will offer publishers the ability to create their own app stores like a (hypothetical) or Says Appbistro founder Ryan Merket, “Every single company we talked to wanted their own app store.”
So they made the decision to solve that problem. The Facebook-centric Appbistro platform will continue with business as usual and be one branch of the many pronged Appstores.com network. Merket says that he has no plans of charging publishers for the service and one idea for a potential revenue stream is sponsored placement across the network of app stores, for example if a developer wants to highlight his app on TechCrunch’s appstore. Interested parties can sign up for the free beta today. Stickybits / explore & score? Social Gaming Emerging as Next Frontier | Branding, Social Media, Digital Marketing | Sparxoo. Social networking games are the latest phenomenon in the gaming industry.
In fact, one out of every five Americans over the age of six has played a social network game at least once. That’s over 60 million Americans in total, and an average of 10 percent spent an astounding $2.2 billion in 2009 and the market is anticipated to grow to over $6 billion in 2013. Social games have made an incredible impact on social network revenue streams — a welcome addition to somewhat meager ad dollars. Facebook, for instance, is valued at $50 billion but saw only $1.86 billion in ad revenue.
Virtual goods and social gaming have potential to bridge the revenue / value gap and reduce social network’s reliance on VC funding. The selling point for social networking game developers is the return users. Very much how the Wii brought non-traditional gamers into the fold, social games are also bucking the traditional gamer demographic. So what games are leading the online social gaming trend? Virtual Goods In Free-To-Play MMOs: Trends, Opportunities And Advice On Monetization - SocialTimes Pro.