{"id":23449,"date":"2011-11-04T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/people-spend-1-2-billion-hours-a-year-playing-angry-birds.html"},"modified":"2011-11-04T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T00:37:08","slug":"people-spend-1-2-billion-hours-a-year-playing-angry-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/people-spend-1-2-billion-hours-a-year-playing-angry-birds.html","title":{"rendered":"People spend 1.2 billion hours a year playing Angry Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crikey.  <\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s an order of magnitude more than has been spent on building Wikipedia since its inception.  In just one year.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t begrudge the creative team here their success, or the folks who played it their enjoyment, or even begin to think that, if only folks weren&#39;t playing Angry Birds they would be doing something socially constructive (proof: they didn&#39;t before Angry Birds).<\/p>\n<p>But, imagine if that effort <i>could<\/i> be turned to something socially constructive.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, the article has some interesting notes about why the game has been so successful, from a user experience analysis standpoint.  Interesting. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mauronewmedia.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F02%2F1-birds.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.mauronewmedia.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/why-angry-birds-is-so-successful-a-cognitive-teardown-of-the-user-experience\/'>Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnalysis and Commentary on High Technology User Experience Research and Design\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crikey. That&#39;s an order of magnitude more than has been spent on building Wikipedia since its inception. In just one year. I don&#39;t begrudge the creative team here their success, or the folks who played it their enjoyment, or even begin to think that, if only folks weren&#39;t playing Angry Birds they would be doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/people-spend-1-2-billion-hours-a-year-playing-angry-birds.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People spend 1.2 billion hours a year playing Angry Birds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,22],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gaming","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":23449,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":19479,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/angry-birds-are-angry.html","url_meta":{"origin":23449,"position":1},"title":"Angry Birds are Angry!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Dec-10 5:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a fun game ... but ... why ... 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