Monthly Archive for March, 2009

Is Twitter Replacing Other Services?

I’ll be the first to admit that I use Twitter way too much. I use it when I’m on my desktop, on my laptop, or even when I’m on my travels (thanks mainly to my unlimited text phone contract). It’s almost become a compulsion to tell people what I’m doing, or even just briefly go onto the site to see what is happening with the people I follow, or have a brief conversation with someone through @replies. It’s also become a platform for people to advertise products, and sustain customer relations on a relatively new medium. Let’s face it; everyone can type 140 characters into a keyboard (even if it’s just with one finger on one character at a time), and almost everyone has a phone that is capable of sending text messages, or browsing something reminiscent of the internet. Therefore, almost everyone is capable of having a Twitter account and using it, although not to the degree that a lot of people do, myself included.

But the question that I feel needs to be asked is ‘With Twitter’s success, is it taking over other, more established services and mediums?’

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Re-Release is the New Black.

This article was published for GrE here.

This was an editorial article on re-releases, and why they have had a recent success, as well as the outlook of the genre as a whole.

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Review: Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. (360/PS3)

This article was originally published for GrE here.

This is a review for Ubisoft’s ‘Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.’, a flight combat game that was introduced in March 2009. Having done the preview article as well, the link in the review will point to the original location of the preview article, rather than a non-existent local copy.

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