Chris Leone

Caitie posted on the article “Gaming is for Grown-Ups” on ClickZ Stats. She mentioned how she had no idea how expansive the video game market really is. Most people, even video game developers, are the same. This is why Nintendo’s new console, the Nintendo Wii, has been so successful. Instead of being marketing to males age 22-35 like the xbox and Playstation 3, it is marketed towards boys, girls, men, women age 4-94. Nintendo really did it’s homework on this one and realized that instead of just trying to make a flashier, more technologically advanced system for the same group of people, it would develop a system anyone and everyone would like to play.

It worked.

Nintendo has been trumping its competition in terms of sales. This is truly a system for everyone. Heck, even my grandmother was able to pick it up and play last Thanksgiving.

My classmate Caitie mentioned in her blog what it means to do a vanity search. I did one of these a while ago, but I thought it was time for another go. To my dismay, I didn’t show up until the third page! This page was from an article in UDaily about something I did over the summer. Scrolling through, I eventually found other pages - mostly from a newspaper - that were about me. I was disappointed that my own website www.chrisaleone.com was too buried to find through google. I was happy to see that when I was very specific with my search for my website, it did eventually come up.

I can relate with Caitie that it can be nerve-racking to see what “dirt” the internet may have on you. For potential employers, this can somewhat of a risk - but only if you have something to hide! Fortunately for me, I hold no reservation in saying, “Google away!” I have nothing to hide. Internet: do your best.