Bunchball Games on Facebook are the new procrastination tool of choice for undergrads—at least at NYU’s Stern School of Business. N-blox, the most popular game, is basically competitive Tetris between two people. Once you add the game application, it will search for a player within one of your Facebook networks. After you choose the network, you […]
Entries from November 2007
Bunchball: Addictive Group Gaming on Facebook
November 30th, 2007 by Sherrie
Tags: Gaming
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NGT NEWS: 3G iPhones, The Facebook Retreat, “The Office is Closed”, & More
November 30th, 2007 by NGT
Apple, AT&T Plan to Sell iPhone Capable of Working on 3G Networks [WSJ]
Coming sometime next year: an iPhone with high-speed internet. Finally, one reason to be proud you haven’t bought the gadget already.
Related: Verizon Wireless Looks to ‘Long-term Evolution’ [MarketWatch]
Related: Google Says It Will Bid for Wireless Spectrum [NYT]
To Promote VCast, Verizon Launches Game Show […]
Tags: The Week in Mobile
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NGT News: Best of Facebook Apps, Mobile Widgets, Mobile Rentals for Zipcar and More
November 29th, 2007 by NGT
Review: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Facebook Apps [Computer World]
Computer World names the best and the worst of Facebook’s over 7,000 applications.
Soup Up Your Cellphone [New York Times]
For people who didn’t want to pony up for an iPhone, widgets might just be the next best thing! Who would have guessed.
Study for a […]
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Rap and Social Media are Big Business in Singapore
November 29th, 2007 by NGT
Rappers began their invasion of the music scene in the 1970s. Since the 1980s till now, rap & hip hop has evolved into a culture of its own and has spread internationally to become a global phenomenon. Today, it’s not surprising for Asian music consist of the hip hop beats or a rap in it.
The […]
Tags: Asia · Culture & Entertainment · TV & Video · World Wide Web
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My Mobile Life
November 28th, 2007 by Sherrie
NGT intern Sherrie Hui on how her cell phone has changed the way she and other college students communicate—and order pizza.
I’m a college senior, and I’m somewhat ashamed to say that I’m a regular texter. Call me neurotic, but I used to think it was a real issue if a guy would text and not […]
Tags: First Person Reports · Mobile
