A massive new multiplayer version of Monopoly has been launched in association with Google, the world is now your play ground, buy property on any street anywhere in the world!

On the 9th of September, Hasbro will launch Monopoly City Streets. This massive online version of the famous board game will only be available for a 4 month period but the good news is its completely free. The Free game uses Google maps or the open source Open Street Maps as the playing field. Hasbro claims it will be “the biggest game of Monopoly of all time” and players will be able to purchase almost “any street in the world”.

As with the traditional board game, the idea behind the game is to make as much money as possible through purchasing property from different location. The more property you have, the more rent you can earn, the larger your income.

Each new player will start the game with 3 million monopoly dollars. Once a player owns a street they can purchase, sell and rent properties. Streets can also be traded or sold to other players.

The Hasbro have also introduced a chance card, which allow players to sabotage rivals by building rubbish dumps, prisons or wind farms on their property to reduce the value of properties and rent on a specific street. Players can only remove a hazard by bulldozing a lot clean, but this again requires the appropriate chance card.

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A British security guard has found an image on Google Earth which resembles the legendary Lock Ness Monster, but has the illusive creature finally been caught on camera?

The image shows a large unidentified object, which resembles a sea creature, on the surface or beneath the water. The image can be found by searching Google Earth and entering coordinates Latitude 57°12’52.13″N, Longitude 4°34’14.16″W.

Adrian Shine, a Loch Ness researcher has called the image “Really Intriguing” and is said to be investigating the story further.
Google have been so intrigued by the findings that on Thursday, they sent the new Google Street Maps Bike to circle the lake and record further imagery for the Street Maps project, hoping to capture more evidence.

It has been suggested that the image is of the Lock Ness Express, a boat which regularly tours the lake. Another image of the boat can be seen on Google Earth by entering the coordinates Latitude 57°10’8.21″N, Longitude 4°37’53.37″W.

It’s unknown at this time exactly what the image is but internet users are eagerly awaiting the launch of the new Lock Ness Google Street Map imagery, just in case they spot something else.

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YouTube, the Google owned video sharing social network, announced on Tuesday that they will begin sharing advertising revenue with users who upload extremely popular, high profile clips and videos.

The YouTube partnership program will be extended to include individuals who are deemed eligible based on the number of views and the depth of sharing of their video content. The partnership program has until now allowed regular producers of videos to earn revenue from YouTube advertising. YouTube claim this can be Thousands of Dollars. Under the new system, if a video becomes popular, possible due to its viral nature, YouTube will email the user and invite them to “enable revenue sharing”. It is unclear as to exactly what YouTube will define as “Popular” but YouTube has acknowledged that they will only sell ads against the clip if the user agrees.

The new program will only be available in the US to start but will be rolled out to other regions. This new program is part of YouTube’s ongoing development of its revenue generating abilities.

“We think there’s tens of thousands more partners that we can generate through this content,” said Tom Pickett, director online sales at YouTube.

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Quentin Tarantino’s new war epic took over $64.1 million in the opening weekend making it Tarantino’s most successful movie to date. Hollywood industry experts have concluded that Twitter massively contributed to the success of the film in its opening weekend.
The first people to see the film we quick to Tweet feedback about the movie which created a Twitter buzz about the film. Positive feedback flooded Twitter as the weekend progressed. Feedback about the Second World War epic quickly grew in momentum which maintained a massive level of interest and excitement about the film.

“the movie actually held its ground and even picked up steam as the weekend went on, as even Saturday twitterers enthusiastically tweeted and re-tweeted their approval… Finally, a Twitter effect that benefits a movie instead of hurts it.” Taken from the Hollywood Reporter.

This is another example of the power of real time search and social networking, it’s clear that based on the success of this film more emphasis will be placed, by movie promoters, on marketing Twitter audiences in the future.

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