How to advertise for an Internet based game being developed ...

My business partner and I are creating an internet based game and want to find some ideas for advertising. We thought about placing ads in gaming magazines and on other gaming websites. Any other ideas out there?

Some low cost ideas:

1. Create the best content you can. Your content is your best advertisement ? if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.

2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important ? and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends.

3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.

4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.

5. Pay per click advertising. Check the keywords carefully and measure your ROI

6. Banner advertising. Less effective than contextual or text based advertising but the right website to advertise can draw in traffic. As always measure your ROI carefully

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Best evidence yet that dinosaurs used feathers the way peacocks do, for courtship

Jan. 4, 2013 ? A University of Alberta researcher's examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage to attract mates, much like modern-day peacocks and turkeys.

U of A Paleontology researcher Scott Persons followed a chain of fossil evidence that started with a peculiar fusing together of vertebrae at the tip of the tail of four different species of dinosaurs, some separated in time and evolution by 45 million years.

Persons says the final vertebrae in the tails of a group of dinosaurs called oviraptors were fused together forming a ridged, blade-like structure. "The structure is called a pygostyle" says Persons. "Among modern animals only birds have them."

Researchers say fossils of Similicaudiptery, an early oviraptor, reveals feathers radiating from the fused bones at the tail tip. Similicaudiptery was not known to be a flying dinosaur and Persons contends its tail feathers evolved as a means of waving its feathered tail fans.

No direct fossil evidence of feathers has been found with the fossils of the oviraptors that followed Similicaudiptery, but Persons says there is still strong evidence they had a feathered tail.

Persons reasons that because the later oviraptor had the same tail structure as the feathered Similicaudipteryx, the tails of later oviraptors' still served the same purpose, waving feathered tail fans.

Persons says the hypothesis of oviraptor tail waving is supported by both the bone and muscle structure of the tail.

Individual vertebrae at the base of an oviraptor's tail were short and numerous, indicating great flexibility. Based on dissections of modern reptile and bird tails, Persons reconstruction of the dinosaur's tail muscles revealed oviraptors had what it took to really shake their tail feathers.

Large muscles extended far down the tail and had a sufficient number of broad connection points to the vertebrae to propel oviraptor's tail feathers vigorously from side to side and up and down.

Oviraptors were two-legged dinosaurs that had already gone through major diversifications from the iconic, meat eating dinosaur family. Oviraptors were plant eaters that roamed parts of China, Mongolia, and Alberta during the Cretaceous period, the final age of the dinosaur.

"By this time a variety of dinosaurs used feathers for flight and insulation from the cold, "said Persons. "This shows that by the Late Cretaceous dinosaurs were doing everything with feathers that modern birds do now," said Persons.

In addition to feathered-tail waving, oviraptors also had prominent bone crests on their head, which Persons says the dinosaur also may have used in mating displays.

"Between the crested head and feathered-tail shaking, oviraptors had a propensity for visual exhibitionism," said Persons.

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1. W. Scott Persons, IV, Philip J. Currie, and Mark A. Norell. Oviraptorosaur tail forms and functions. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2013; DOI: 10.4202/app.2012.0093

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Those 'glitterless' Nexus 4 stories are bullshit

OK, folks. This has gotten ridiculous, and it needs to stop. Now.

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Missing dog mystery is on Mass. author's mind

Author Dennis Lehane stands next to a poster for his missing dog in Brookline, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The dog, a beagle named Tessa, went missing on Christmas Eve 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Author Dennis Lehane stands next to a poster for his missing dog in Brookline, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The dog, a beagle named Tessa, went missing on Christmas Eve 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

A poster for a missing dog is attached to a shop window, in Brookline, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The missing dog, a beagle named Tessa, which belongs to author Dennis Lehane, went missing Christmas Eve 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Dog groomer Casey Mabardy, of Lexington, Mass., places a poster for a missing dog in the rear window of her car, in Brookline, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The missing dog, a beagle named Tessa, that belongs to author Dennis Lehane, went missing on Christmas Eve 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) ? There's a new mystery on Dennis Lehane's mind, but the story isn't something the best-selling author can control from behind a keyboard.

The plot kicked off Christmas Eve, when the crime novelist's rescue beagle Tessa escaped from his yard after an outdoor gate latch didn't lock all the way.

Since then, Lehane's family has launched an all-out search. They've posted fliers, organized foot searches and used social media to try to bring Tessa back to their home in Brookline, Mass., near Boston.

The 47-year-old author of books including "Mystic River" and "Gone, Baby, Gone" is offering a monetary reward and has said he'll name a character in his next book after whoever finds Tessa.

Lehane said Thursday outside his home that he's surprised by the media attention the story has attracted, and thinks it has something to do with the character offer.

But he said as word of the missing dog spread, his family has heard from people across the country on a "Finding Tessa" Facebook page. They even got an offer of help from a dog psychic in San Francisco.

"No dog since Lassie ever got this attention ... the flip side of the comedy is, who wouldn't do this for their dog?" he said.

The doggie dilemma comes as Lehane faces a Friday deadline for finishing a movie script based on his short story "Animal Rescue," timing he said may be "sadistic irony." The movie is scheduled to begin shooting in March in New York City.

The author said he's been spending about four hours a day searching for the tri-colored female beagle after he finishes writing, and his wife has dedicated about 10 hours a day to the effort.

They adopted the 4-year-old beagle not long ago from a Florida rescue agency. Before that, Tessa was a stray in Georgia.

With the help of Twitter and Facebook accounts, Lehane and his wife organized two search efforts Thursday in sections of Brookline and Boston, where they suspect Tessa could be. In the beginning, there were three sightings within about two miles of their home not long after a house sitter reported that the dog was loose.

But the trail went cold for days after a sighting near a McDonald's restaurant. Tessa wasn't wearing tags, but does have a microchip.

"Every dog expert we talk to is strongly suggesting that she's in somebody's house," Lehane said. "That's why we keep saturating the area with pictures. Because somebody could have her and just not know."

Missing dog posters dotted the family's Coolidge Corner neighborhood Thursday, including in the front windows at Durty Harry's dog grooming shop where Tessa is a client. Shop owner Michelle Fournier said interest in the search took off even before people knew Tessa had a famous owner.

"This is about a dog and her family. This is about a community who loves dogs," she said.

Lehane said Thursday that Tessa is so sweet that she'd taken to spooning the family's puppy before her disappearance. He said if someone knows where Tessa is, he only cares about a happy ending, not about solving the mystery of where she's been.

"It's a no-questions-asked issue," the author said. "... Bring the dog to a shelter or call me and I will pick up the dog."

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NLSD122 Pulls Out of Lincoln-Way Area Special Ed. D843 ...

The New Lenox School District 122 Board of Education agreed, beginning in January to begin pulling away from Lincoln-Way Area Special Education District 843. The aim is to shape its own New Lenox Special Education Cooperative.

Supt. Michael Sass the NLSD122 has been slowly bringing home special education services for youngsters in D122, since 2004. A financial review of the special education program indicates that D122 would realize as cost savings of $529,000 for the 2014-2015 school year. By forming its own cooperative, this "eliminates another layer of government. It provides quicker response, problem-solving and decisions for our students."

NLSD122 Cooperative has been forming since 2004

After 10 years of integrating special education programs into the New Lenox school system, Sass the district now offers the programs that allow special education students the opportunity to attend school within their own district, if not in the same school as their siblings.

A former special education teacher, who headed up a special education cooperative in Oak Park before joining NLSD122, Sass said he is confident that the district has the in-house expertise to accommodate its own youngsters. He noted that LWASE D843 would be depended on for a few select services. ?

The services that NLSD122 has brought home:

• In 2004: Early Childhood and Learning Disabled Programs
• In 2006: Psychologist Services and Social Work Services
• In 2009: Specialized Instructions
• In 2012: Communication Disorder and Phonological Programs
• Planned for 2013: Developmental Kindergarten, Early Childhood Screening and Evaluation, Private Placements and Adaptive Physical Education

Sass said the New Lenox district houses programs for primary and intermediate classrooms as well as one junior high classroom." In place are hearing, vision, audiological, orientation and mobility services along with multiple needs, occupational and physical therapy services. ?

LWASE D843's Response to the Withdrawal

Sally Bintz, director of LWASE D843, said, "We have a different estimation what the cost would be." However, "it's not unusual for a district the size of New Lenox to make the decision to centralize the services within their district."

Sass and Bintz have been in discussion about the withdrawal since November. ?

New Lenox schools will continue to count on the LWASE for a handful of students. Sass said only 10 students are projected to need services that cannot be delivered effectively within in its own boundaries.

The special district is not expected to be financially strapped by NLSD122's decision to withdraw, she said. "We've been working with our members districts (Frankfort District 157c, Summit Hill District 161, Mokena School District 159 and Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210) to revamp our billing process to let districts make choices about which services they use and which they don't. ?. (The NLSD122) partnership will be missed by all. ?

"I'm personally disappointed that a relationship that was 40 years in the making is changing. But we're committed to working together. They have said they want to continue sending students to our programs."

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Source: http://frankfort.patch.com/articles/nlsd122-pulls-out-of-lincoln-way-area-special-ed-d843

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