Last year, Major League Baseball hosted a home run derby in the online game Second Life, and now the NBA is making an investment in the online world. Darren Rovell, CNBC sports business reporter, has the story.
Star Wars nearing 30
With the 30th anniversary of Star Wars fast approaching (May 25), it’s time to begin celebrating the galaxy far, far away all over again.
Festivities kick off tonight in L.A., where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen George Lucas’ 1977 space opera masterpiece and celebrate the film it dissed for an Oscar. The first Star Wars film garnered 10 nominations and took home six of the golden statues, but lost out to Annie Hall for the year’s best picture.
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Web 2.0: Some facts…
A study by Bill Tancer, an analyst with Hitwise, which measures Web 2.0 audiences, shows that only a tiny fraction of people using social media actively participate. A miniscule 0.16 percent of visits to YouTube actually involve people putting a video up on it, according to his online surfing data. All the rest are visits by people watching the videos of that tiny fraction.
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