Tag Archives: rant

“Play Money” and RMT is why I will never play MMORPGs again.

By Chad | Published: May 14, 2010
I just got finished reading Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot by Julian Dibbell, and I must say that no book in recent memory has riled me up so much. Don’t get me wrong – I am not angry because I am naive about virtual worlds [...]
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No Google, I don’t need advice on pregnancy.

By Chad | Published: February 5, 2010
I just got done reading an article from Google’s Official GMail Blog, entitled Serving Better Ads in Gmail. Scott Crossan, the GMail Product Manager, stated that GMail will now provide advertisements based on past emails if the current email doesn’t provide a good enough match. They are doing this in the spirit of giving you [...]
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