Tech Money: Ideas

PlayCafe is a website, currently in beta, where users can watch a live daily game show, call there and win prizes ranging from iTunes songs to Nintendo Wiis and $1,000 in cash. The game show is streamed live Monday-Friday at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST during almost 2 hours but they are planning to expand to four hours starting next week.

It is an interesting concept. You don’t need any complex program to watch the show. You only need Adobe Flash version 8.0+ and a browser like Mozilla Firefox 2.0+ (recommended) or Internet Explorer 7.0+ (For Mac OS you can use Safari 1.2+).

Currently, the prizes also include Amazon gift certificates, ringtones and magazine subscriptions. To play, you must sign-up, be logged in when the show begins, listen to the host (who will tell you about the rules / questions) and answer those questions in a window, which appears in the page during the show.

According to some news reports, currently the website has an average of 250 to 300 players per night. They have three types of games: Mix and Match (about matching things in categories), Predict the Poll (with questions like: “What percentage of Americans…?”) and Media Mash-Up (they present a media clip and you have to answer some questions about it).

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Spanish fighting bull breeder Victoriano del Rio has decided to bet on new cloning technology rather than risk buying a traditionally bred replacement.

JuicyCampus is a crazy site. If you are a student in a campus, you can write whatever you want there anonymously. The original idea was that the site would be a gossip site for college students where people could write hilarious material, or thought provoking posts.

But human nature can be very aggressive when people is protected by the anonymity. JuicyCampus is having a big issue with defamatory posts against some people. Those include insults where a person’s full name is published and accusations about “child molesters” with no evidences. Some parents think the site is not funny.

The situation has become so stressful for the site owner (Matt Ivester) and even he has published a letter in the official site blog and made a plea for decorum and decency in their posts.

Honestly, a simple letter from the founder doesn’t seem enough to control human nature. This site is simply a way to concentrate lots of hate, wickedness and heavy jokes from students.

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