CYBERPSYCHOLOGY & BEHAVIOR Volume 9‚ Number 6‚ 2006 © Mary Ann Liebert‚ Inc. Rapid Communication Motivations for Play in Online Games NICK YEE ABSTRACT An empirical model of player motivations in online games provides the foundation to understand and assess how players differ from one another and how motivations of play relate to age‚ gender‚ usage patterns‚ and in-game behaviors. In the current study‚ a factor analytic approach was used to create an empirical model of player motivations.
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concepts and some advanced methods like ajax‚ jquery‚ json‚ etc. PHP: Technology Used: PHP was conceived sometime in the fall of 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. Early non-released versions were used on his home page to keep track of who was looking at his online resume. The first version used by others was available sometime in early 1995 and was known as the Personal Home Page Tools. It consisted of a very simplistic parser engine that only understood a few special macros and a number of utilities that were
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to everyday activities has become so common in recent times that it has completely changed the way we live. Previous day to day activities such as communication‚ socializing and even consultancy which were undertaken face to face have since moved online. Consequently this has changed the way business transactions are conducted as well. The improvement of technology for internet communications such as the development of widely available broadband services and increasingly fast fiber-optic networks
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The Internet has changed consumer shopping style; however‚ the foundations that cause the common shopping habits have not changed. Online and traditional shopping both have to deal with issues that relate to security‚ advertisement‚ and providing a better service through convenience. The security issue comes up for both business sites. Online‚ people are concerned about revealing their credit card information over the web due to information theft and hacking. When it comes to advertisement; businesses
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Technical: The Online Shopping Via SMS: Computer Parts and Accessories is a new feature that we are proposing to the Armenia’s Internet Café. Since we are offering that the computer parts and accessories of the Armenia’s Internet Café will be online‚ they are required to have a PC (admin) with an Internet connection and a database system for the products and customer’s information. Through the Internet‚ they will also be required to have a website with a domain name itself. The PC (admin) and the
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EFFECT OF BUDGET ON ONLINE SHOPPING Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has granted a wonderful gift to E-Commerce entrepreneurs by making an important announcement to introduce GST by August 2012 in his Union Budget 2012-13 speech. For e commerce entrepreneurs‚ this is such a fantastic news as they are expect that with the implementation of the Goods and Service Tax(GST) prices of products sold online will come down. At present most of the online commerce ventures are working on hub and spoke model
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION The Internet has become an essential part of our daily life‚ and companies realize that the Internet can be a shopping channel to reach existing and potential consumers. With popular trends and demands the concept of the Internet as the way forward to increase profit margins‚ companies new and old are creating websites here and there. The significance for retailers to having a web site is that a web site is informational and transactional in nature.
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References: Arcadia Group‚ 2010. Annual report 2009-2010. [online] Available at: http://www.arcadiagroup.co.uk/assets/pdfs/ArcadiaFinancialResults2010.pdf [Accessed 6 December 2010] Boshoff K‚ ‘Kate Moss is leaving Topshop’‚ Mail Online‚ 1 September 2010‚ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1307814/Kate-Moss-leaving-Topshop-Philip-Green-hires-teenage-daughter.html viewed 7 December 2010 Braithwaite
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Because they rely on computers for everything ‚ from paying bills‚ to applying for jobs‚ for online shopping‚ even though do homework... For example‚ if we want to find information‚ we can just type in the words and get information in just seconds. Not only that‚ computers also serve as a online shop because for those who can’t find time to go to the shops to buy things‚ so they can always order things online. It saves time for them. Not just that‚ the people sitting in front of a computers all day
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website‚ that there must be some fee involved. Even if there is no membership fee‚ consumers use the various websites to make purchases. Freecycle.org is successful because it breaks the mold of what consumers are used to. It is very similar to an online Goodwill. Many people tend to take time at various times throughout the year to clean out closets‚ garages‚ etc. to get rid of items that are no longer useful to them. But in this case‚ people really have no idea who is actually receiving the items
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