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Why Video Games are the Next Big Social Network
- Gaming is expanding its reach into every part of our lives (education, medicine, music) and is becoming the foremost battleground for the future of big tech. This strikes me as analogous to the Facebook story from above. The market clearly believes video games represent a valuable opportunity, but may be underrating the scale by orders of magnitude... See more
from How to Identify Underrated Markets by Brett Bivens
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- In a world awash with information and eye candy, “social gaming” is rapidly evolving as the largest existential threat to legacy media’s claim on engaged consumer attention. Trust and manipulation issues are also causing people to look beyond incumbent social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
from Beyond Broadcast and Social Media: Game Engines are the New Reality Engines by Scott Broock
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- With more than 30% of the world’s population playing games today, gaming and social behaviors are beginning to blur.
from Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups by Arman Tabatabai
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