Half Teen Girls Are Online Gamers

A new study found that teen girls are more attracted to online games as more are turning to the web to participate in social role playing challenges and take quizzes. The study was conducted by tween gaming platform GirlsgoGames.com who found that 50% girls between the gaes of 8 and 12 are using the internet for entertainment and social gaming. Stunningly, the amoung ot time they spend playing games each months are more than doubled from last year, from 38 minutes a month to 1 hour and 18 month.

GirlsgoGames is owned by an Amsterdam’s largest indpendent gaming company in the world, Spil Games. They do the study to 7.6 million U.S. site visitors via GirlsgoGames.com since 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.

Further, GirlsgoGames said that tweens are more attracted to the social aspects of online gaming and more interested in the games where they can interact, create avatars for role play, or share their content. They‘re also interested in cooking game, dressing up, and quizzes.

Lastly, tweens love to play what used to be a paper doll game, where they can dress celebrities up in new clothes and makeup.

So boys, are you ready to compete with gamer girls?

Explain Facebook Only in 150 Seconds

Have any friend who just came back from their four year vacation on Mars? Or maybe your grandma still don’t get why Facebook is such a big company. Rather than explaining everything about the social network, you can simply screen this video.

The video was made by an online investment platform Kapitall. This 150 second video presents some eye popping stats about the social network in a pleasing animated infographic format.

A little disingenuous thing about the video is that it suggests you to easily get into the action whenever Facebook has its IPO. The IPO is likely coming this summer, but it might be delayed due to the billion dollar Instagram acquisition. Actually, you still can’t join the initial frenzy unless you’re an employee, celebrity, the deal’s underwriters, or a celebrity.

However, we can say that this is the best summaries about the social media frenzy so far. If YouTube tried to make a time machine video to capture our connected age, this video is worth to be included.

How Samsung Reach the Top of the Handset Market

Last Friday marked the first time Nokia ousted from their position at the top of the cellphone maker, according to Strategy Analytics. Samsung has taken their crown as the leading shipper of mobile phone in the world. The key of their turnover is they keep speeding up while Nokia slowing down.

Seeing a goliath falls down is always interesting, just like when we see RIM, Palm, and HP before. However, seeing Nokia falling down feels like a different type of interesting. We can say that they created the mobile industry. For me, their biggest mistake is selling Symbian and not selling devices on their new OS, Windows Phone, until later 2011. The other smartphone player has taken a few leap forward when Nokia just start the journey.

Samsung, on the other hand, has done three things simultaneously: innovating, marketing, and emulating. We can see the result in the past year. Galaxy Note sold 5 million units only in 5 months. It creates a new “phablet” category for everyone to join but again, they’ve started it before anyone else.

If Nokia doesn’t change their plan soon, it’s hard to see them in the top spot once again. Or worse, they might slip to number three.

How Social Media Help Autism

We’re now closing to Autism Awareness Month, but with the new social network MyAutismTeam, parents of children with autism spectrum disorder can find support throughout the year and spread the awareness.

MyAutismTeam is a part of MyHealthTeams network, an online community for people who live with or caring people with chronic health condition.  Eric Peacock, co-founder and the CEO of MyHealthTeams said that one in two Americans suffers from chronic disease or condition. “That includes everything from autism and ADHD to diabetes, Parkinson’s, and breast cancer.” The number is expected to increase 42% in the next 10 years.

MyAutismTeam was launched in December 2011 after several months of testing, improving the site, and growing the user base. Last June, they opened the beta version, beginning with only 30 parents in San Francisco Bay area. But after the word go out, the site grew rapidly. Peacock said MyAutismTeam hit 10,000 registered parents from 50 states in four months. Today, they have 22,000 registered parents.

Do you have problem with caring people in chronic health and condition? Sound off in the comment box below.

CISPA’s Authors Trust Their Bill Despite the Opposition

Mike Rogers, the author of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act a.k.a CISPA is pretty confident the bill has enough support in the house to pass the vote Friday. Opposition is coming from privacy groups and concerned Internet users, but he still believes in the bill. “This isn’t about the votes, we’re well passed that,” said Rogers on a media conference call.

CISPA is actually designed to allow private businesses and government to share information about cybersecurity threats. The advocates claim that it will increase the government’s ability to fight cyberattacks. However, the opposition said CISPA might destroy the notion of online privacy by allowing firms to hand their personal data into the intelligence community.

Two separate non-CISPA threads are currently sitting on the front page of Reddit, where a lot of early anti-SOPA activity began to rise. The fresh news from CISPA comes after a week of protest by Internet privacy groups such as Electronic Frontier Foundation which failed to gain the traction that anti-SOPA movement found before that bill was left to fight in the legislative.

Will you tolerate CISPA’s amendments? Sound off on the comment box below.