“Weaving throughout ancient Egypt and the Middle East, the Journey of Moses is a fun, immersive adventure game, complete with complex characters, engaging quests, puzzles and mysteries,” said Brent Dusing, CEO of Hexify. “Whether you already play social games or you are interested in the story of Moses, we believe we have created a game that everyone can enjoy.”
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Amnesty’s report on global human rights in 2010 reports that government attempts to block Internet and mobile phone access backfired in countries such as Tunisia where massive anti-government protests led to the president’s ouster.
The revolutions in Egypt and Libya helped push CNN.com to a 10 percent traffic gain in February compared with the year-earlier month.
During the first three days of the month, Egypt helped drive the cable news network’s site to a daily average 17 percent higher than that of the prior four weeks. It was Libya’s turn Monday, Feb. 21, when traffic was 55 percent higher than the prior-four-Sunday average and 6 percent higher than the last Monday holiday (Jan. 17).
Total video starts (live and video-on-demand) were up 30 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2010, and live video starts were up 20 percent.
Feature content also performed well for CNN.com in February, with Tech averaging 1 million daily page views, up 18 percent; versus February 2010 Opinion at 500,000, up 51 percent; Health at 860,000, up 46 percent; and Living at 800,000, up 66 percent. And CNN.com said blog traffic accounted for 97 million page views in February.
In the climactic outcome of 18 days of protest, former President Mubarak of Egypt resigned and gave power to the military — he had ruled for 30 years, and the people have erupted to celebrate hope for more freedom in the future. As with all major world events of late, Twitter has helped report on the Egyptian riots and political situation — and now that Mubarak has resigned, Twitter is supplying messages that help explain what this change means for citizens of the world. Read more
CNN.com said traffic spiked to 5.3 million global page views during the hour when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced his resignation, up 50 percent compared with the average for the same hour during the past four Fridays.
The total marked the best 11 a.m. hour on a weekday the site has experienced all year, and CNN.com added that global live video views increased by six times versus the prior-four-Friday average, as well.
The political turmoil in Egypt accounted for 57 percent of news links shared by bloggers during the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 4, while TechCrunch’s account of the hacking of online dating site Plentyoffish was the most-Tweeted news link, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was surveillance footage of a drug catapult used near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
Egypt was trailed in the blogosphere by: Groundhog Day, at 12 percent, including an AP video of Punxsutawney Phil; Dana Milbank‘s pledge in The Washington Post to not mention Sarah Palin for the entire month of February, at 7 percent; a report from the BBC on a drone flown by militant Lebanese group Hezbollah over Israel, at 5 percent; and Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder‘s threat to considering legal action against the Washington City Paper for writing a critical story about him, at 4 percent.
BBC News set up a live events page to highlight the political unrest in Egypt.
The page includes a live video stream from Cairo featuring include the BBC’s Lyse Doucet and Jeremy Bowen; live text updates on breaking news; Tweets and emails from viewers and people in Egypt; information on how to contact the BBC; and an interactive map tracking major events.
Social Media has become one of the worst nightmares for the Cuban regime, according to a new video making rounds across the internet. The 53 minute video is a presentation given by an Internet expert to Cuban Interior Ministry last June. From the video it is clear that Cuban authorities believe that United States is encouraging and organizing the voices of dissent through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel Tweeted the photo below of an Egyptian protester holding a sign that said, “Thank you, Facebook.” There was no word on whether Engel or any of the other journalists covering the political turmoil in Egypt have discovered anyone expressing their gratitude to Friendster.
Everyone is talking about the Egyptian Internet blackout, the blocking of Facebook and Twitter and the subsequent launch of Google and Twitter’s Speak-to-Tweet technology. But while everyone focuses on Facebook and Twitter, protesters are taking to YouTube as well.
