The News Review:

- nline Games Influence Kids’ Food Choices
- Facebook’s future: Web 3.0?
- Loyola professor becomes hated outcast while studying online …

nline Games Influence Kids’ Food Choices
MedPage Today
Note that the study measured short-term food choices after just 10 minutes of playing an online game. Further study may be needed to determine long-term effects. These findings from a randomized controlled trial with different versions of an online computer game developed to market foods to children indicate that concerns over “advergames” are justified said Tiffany A. Pempek PhD and Sandra L. Calvert PhD both of Georgetown University in Washington D.

Facebook’s future: Web 3.0?
Seattle Times
Every new Facebook user every “friend” added every business that starts a page every Web entity that recognizes Facebook Connect — all add to the critical mass behind Facebook’s momentum. From a business perspective the connections enhance the value of what Facebook calls the “social graph” — its ever-expanding map of human relationships — even while skeptics wonder about its ability to turn its popularity into profit. How important is Facebook? Shouting over live rock at a recent Facebook party at a San Francisco nightclub Mark Pincus founder and CE of fast-growing online game-maker Zynga likened it to Netscape the browser startup that launched the dot-com boom in 1995. E-mail upgradeSeparately Joe Greenstein co-founder of Flixster a site that lets film buffs share reviews and comments suggested that Facebook Connect represents the 21st-century upgrade of e-mail. If Google ignited the so-called Web 2. 0 business era Facebook may be ushering in Web 3.

Loyola professor becomes hated outcast while studying online …
The Times-Picayune – NLA.com
A roleplayer in an online game he aimed the pointer at his opponent the virtual comic book villain “Syphris. ” Myers 55 flicked the buttons on his mouse and magically transported his opponent to the front of a cartoon robot execution squad. In an instant the squad pulverized the player. Syphris fired an instant message at Myers moments later. “If you kill me one more time I will come and kill you for real and I am not kidding.
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