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Women in Games 2007 - Keynote Speech

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

In her keynote speech at the “Women in Games” conference, Sharon Knight talked about new trends and developments in the gaming industry: You all know our biz is cyclical. Transitions every 4-5 years, and there’s new tech every cycle. Each gives us the opportunity to take gaming to a higher level, and each time the [...]

iMedia Connection: Top Email Trends Revealed

Monday, April 16th, 2007

BrightWave Marketing’s founder identifies hot topics for email marketers by evaluating their activity at the EmailStatCenter site. It can be hard for most email marketers to step back from the never-ending campaign production cycle to see what else is going on besides their own deployments.
Consider this the topic that will always be relevant. For [...]

The “Chi-Tonw” tattoo - Tattoo Typo Leads to Trend

Monday, April 16th, 2007

A similar nickname is popping up as a tattoo on skin all over Chicago. The tattoo says “Chi-Tonw,” and while the spelling comes close, it isn’t exactly one of Chicago’s many monikers. The “Chi-Tonw” tattoo can be traced back to Sam Hacker, who has been a tattoo artist for 11 years. He remembers the day [...]