With Summer Jobs Scarce, Entrepreneurial Students Turn to New Internet Game DevHub.com to Make Money
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Posted on July 20, 2010 at 5:14:01 AM
With Summer Jobs Scarce, Entrepreneurial Students Turn to New Internet Game DevHub.com to Make Money
Internet Upstart, the EVO Media Group, Combines Free Social Game with Website Builder that Earns Players Real Revenue, Respect among Peers
SEATTLE, July 20 -- With social online games all the craze these days, the EVO Media Group has combined the best of these gaming elements with its free website builder to make the perfect online summer destination for teens looking to make some scratch during their long break.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100720/SF37343)
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100720/SF37343)
Students who sign up on DevHub are guided through an empire-building game with points, levels, and coins to build full-fledged websites such as a news blog or a storefront. To make the whole process easier to understand, websites are actually represented as actual buildings, which grow and are populated by DevHub's resident characters, the Devatars. As students accumulate coins and unlock Devatars, they are able to upgrade their site with tools and templates in the DevHub marketplace. All the while, players are actually building out websites that contain ads and promotional products that can earn real money.
"DevHub.com is a totally unique experience," says EVO Media Group's CEO and GameMaster, Geoffrey Nuval, "We're enabling students to build Internet properties that make real money while letting them do what they do best... play a game. Can we really scold our kids when they are actually spending their time online creating real value?"
By the looks of the activity on Facebook and Twitter, DevHub users are leveraging the game's social features to the max to recruit even more players. To date, users have already built over 500,000 sites on DevHub.
"The days of kids mowing lawns and painting houses for summer jobs are fading," says Mark Michael, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at DevHub. "Now students can turn their personal passion into an online business. Whether your kids are into sports or art or music, DevHub provides the tools and guidance for them to create a real, valuable property online. The best part is that they'll have fun doing it!"
About DevHub.com
DevHub is your place to create anything on the Web with no hosting hassle, guided site-editing, money-making tools, social features integrated, and a whole lot of fun mixed in! Forget run of the mill site-builders, DevHub is an online brand builder. In addition to its editing tools, DevHub's drag-and-drop modules pull in content, video, products, ads, and more from various top-tier partners around the Web. You have the power to do it, and we provide you with a guided site editor to make it happen.
About Evo Media Group
The EVO Media Group, Inc. ("EVO") is a venture-backed company that is dually headquartered in Seattle, WA (engineering) & San Francisco, CA (business development). EVO's main purpose is to apply the newest Internet technologies and gaming mechanics to previously mundane and daunting platforms. The result is a lower barrier to entry, users being incentivized to complete tasks on time, and a sense of fun.
Friend and Follow DevHub.com
http://twitter.com/DevHubhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/DevHub/53189944701
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100720/SF37343
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Source: EVO Media Group, Inc.
CONTACT: Mark Michael, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of EVO
Media Group, Inc., +1-206-441-4399, mark@evomediagroup.com
Web Site: http://www.devhub.com/
Internet Upstart, the EVO Media Group, Combines Free Social Game with Website Builder that Earns Players Real Revenue, Respect among Peers
SEATTLE, July 20 -- With social online games all the craze these days, the EVO Media Group has combined the best of these gaming elements with its free website builder to make the perfect online summer destination for teens looking to make some scratch during their long break.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100720/SF37343)
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100720/SF37343)
Students who sign up on DevHub are guided through an empire-building game with points, levels, and coins to build full-fledged websites such as a news blog or a storefront. To make the whole process easier to understand, websites are actually represented as actual buildings, which grow and are populated by DevHub's resident characters, the Devatars. As students accumulate coins and unlock Devatars, they are able to upgrade their site with tools and templates in the DevHub marketplace. All the while, players are actually building out websites that contain ads and promotional products that can earn real money.
"DevHub.com is a totally unique experience," says EVO Media Group's CEO and GameMaster, Geoffrey Nuval, "We're enabling students to build Internet properties that make real money while letting them do what they do best... play a game. Can we really scold our kids when they are actually spending their time online creating real value?"
By the looks of the activity on Facebook and Twitter, DevHub users are leveraging the game's social features to the max to recruit even more players. To date, users have already built over 500,000 sites on DevHub.
"The days of kids mowing lawns and painting houses for summer jobs are fading," says Mark Michael, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at DevHub. "Now students can turn their personal passion into an online business. Whether your kids are into sports or art or music, DevHub provides the tools and guidance for them to create a real, valuable property online. The best part is that they'll have fun doing it!"
About DevHub.com
DevHub is your place to create anything on the Web with no hosting hassle, guided site-editing, money-making tools, social features integrated, and a whole lot of fun mixed in! Forget run of the mill site-builders, DevHub is an online brand builder. In addition to its editing tools, DevHub's drag-and-drop modules pull in content, video, products, ads, and more from various top-tier partners around the Web. You have the power to do it, and we provide you with a guided site editor to make it happen.
About Evo Media Group
The EVO Media Group, Inc. ("EVO") is a venture-backed company that is dually headquartered in Seattle, WA (engineering) & San Francisco, CA (business development). EVO's main purpose is to apply the newest Internet technologies and gaming mechanics to previously mundane and daunting platforms. The result is a lower barrier to entry, users being incentivized to complete tasks on time, and a sense of fun.
Friend and Follow DevHub.com
http://twitter.com/DevHubhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/DevHub/53189944701
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100720/SF37343
AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org/
AP PhotoExpress Network: PRN8
PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100720/SF37343
Source: EVO Media Group, Inc.
CONTACT: Mark Michael, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of EVO
Media Group, Inc., +1-206-441-4399, mark@evomediagroup.com
Web Site: http://www.devhub.com/