Posts Tagged ‘Heaps’
Episode 10: Ten Coolest Mobile Services #2, Part 1
Mobile GREE fishing game “Tsuri Star 2? With 10 million users and more than 12 billion page views per month, Mobile GREE is among the hottest mobile social networking and games sites in Japan. At first glance, Tsuri Star 2 is just a Flash-based fishing game. But, there are hundreds of thousands of players being paid involved in the social side of it all — joining teams to go fishing together, competing in tournaments, showing off their catches to each other, and becoming friends in the process. Even more astonishing: Players spend heaps of real, cold, hard cash to buy virtual fishing equipment that lets them catch larger and rarer fish — helping GREE Inc. bag a cool US$ 41.2 million in revenues in the last quarter alone. This video comes in three parts: 1. A look at grees wildly well loved fishing game in action. 2. The shopping and stickers functionality in that game. 3. Fishing tournaments, where multiple users work together to catch the most fish.
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Episode 10: Ten Coolest Mobile Services #2, Part 2
Mobile GREE fishing game “Tsuri Star 2? With 10 million users and more than 12 billion page views per month, Mobile GREE is among the hottest mobile social networking and games sites in Japan. At first glance, Tsuri Star 2 is just a Flash-based fishing game. But, there are hundreds of thousands of players being paid involved in the social side of it all — joining teams to go fishing together, competing in tournaments, showing off their catches to each other, and becoming friends in the process. Even more astonishing: Players spend heaps of real, cold, hard cash to buy virtual fishing equipment that lets them catch larger and rarer fish — helping GREE Inc. bag a cool US$ 41.2 million in revenues in the last quarter alone. This video comes in three parts: 1. A look at grees wildly well loved fishing game in action. 2. The shopping and stickers functionality in that game. 3. Fishing tournaments, where multiple users work together to catch the most fish.
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Googlewhacks for Fun and Profit
the number of consequences returned when each word is searched for individually. We derive a model to describe search result values for multi-word queries using the total number of pages indexed by Google and by applying the Zipf power law to the word per page distribution on the internet and Heaps’ law for unique word counts. Based on data from 351 word pairs each with exactly one hit when searched for together, and a Zipf law coefficient determined in other studies, we approximate the Heaps’ …