Zynga Starts Its Own Unique Promotional Campaign for Their Latest Game Spinoff; Farmville English Countryside

Zynga may not be yet ready for a massive general public promotional campaign at the moment but the Internet gaming giant did however scored a Wall Street debut recently. Zynga is indisputably the fastest growing online gaming company with its innumerable users for their game products such as CityVille and Mafia Wars.

Demonstration of the
Promotional Campaign

This Tuesday, Zynga marched all over the place with several real sheep’s all over the metropolitan areas of Manhattan and Times Square. This unique promotional campaign was brought in order for their upcoming game product which was recently released; a new game called FarmVille English Countryside. This is a spinoff of their immensely popular, the most favorite and addictive game product, FarmVille, for Facebook.

eBay Finally Takes the Step towards Big Retail by Acquiring GSI

eBay has succeeded in their old hunt of finding themselves a good retail identity. Taking a step further and excelling in the business of filling large orders for retailers, eBay has decided to acquire another successful online services company GSI Commerce, for the amount of $2.4 billion.

This acquisition was announced on Monday and is clearly taken as a comparable strategy against their rivals like Amazon.com. The analysts foresee that now with GSI, eBay has gotten the potential get bigger and beyond its own network of small power sellers. It has now the power of connecting it large audience with these large retailers. GSI will not only help them run the Web sites but also provide viable services like payment processing, order management and customer service.

Twitter Helps Find a Runaway Snake, Followed My Thousands of People on Twitter

The management of the Bronx Zoo’s reptile house realized this Monday afternoon that an Egyptian cobra has just miraculously disappeared from the place over this weekend very discreetly. While all the keepers at the reptile house give up everything just to catch the dangerous creature in the shortest time possible, apparently tens of thousands of people all over the universe have already caught the snake. It has found to be seeking refuge in Twitter.

Twitter Page of the Runaway Snake

It was first discovered at 2 p.m., right there on twitter, while the snake initiated the conversation announcing: “I want to thank those animals from the movie ‘Madagascar.’ ” This tweet straight forwardly referred to the escapees of Central Park Zoo in a very popular 2005 animated film. “They were a real inspiration,” it followed.

It took only few hours after the discovery, that everyone had their eye on this poisonous snake, named @BronxZoosCobra, as quite a few thousand people were following him already. While on an actual interaction people would definitely feel shy as far away as possible, but apparently thanks to twitter, people instead started following the cold-blooded, venomous creature as it began to trend worldwide.

Flicker Accused of Enforcing Its Community Rules Unethically

Only a couple days after a user has uploaded few pictures at Flickr, just like any other of its huge number of users. The pictures which showed the Egyptian police officers in a much feared state, uploaded by Hossam el-Hamalawy, well-known Egyptian blogger and human rights activist, could not believe it when he first saw the pictures ‘vanished’ one after another, from the networking site.

He later claimed that “I thought I was being hacked.” Hamalawy has been a very active user of the networking social website since 2008 and uploaded these pictures just early this month, which have been shot at the State Security Police headquarters in Nasr City.

He informed that later he finally learned through an e-mail letter sent by Flickr team; explain that the photos were removed because he, the user, did not take those images himself. The mail stated that this reason lies in violation of the site’s community rules. Hamalawy commented on this e-mail message to say “That is totally ludicrous.” Later he humbly made his point while accusing Flicker: “Flickr is full of accounts with photos that people did not take themselves.”