Garnett Lee created a second " iteration " of 1UP Yours, called Listen UP, that featured a similar, but slightly more tight-focused, format to the original 1UP Yours, which ran from January 2009-October 2009, ending with Lee's departure to work with GameFly.

The business model of GameFly is similar to the DVD-by-mail subscription service Netflix or Blockbuster online.

GameFly is an American online video game rental subscription service that specializes in providing games for game consoles and handheld game consoles.

In February 2009, GameFly acquired the gaming news and community site Shacknews, along with its digital download and streaming video sites.

GameFly does not support older game systems, such as the Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, PlayStation, or the Dreamcast.

However, this has changed since GameFly has acquired Direct2Drive, which offers PC game rental services.

* Online DVD rental services such as Netflix and GameFly are effectively sneakernets, as they deliver data on DVDs and other media via regular mail.

Then, in 2012, GameFly also added the " PlayStation Vita " to their product lines, and also edited their rental rules, saying that from January 1 and on-ward, if you pay any paid membership, your membership also includes free PC downloads.

A few months after launch, GameFly began renting Game Boy Advance games in addition to disc-based games.

It was purchased by GameFly in 2010 for an undisclosed amount.

In Summer 2010 MobyGames was acquired by GameFly.

GameFly sends games to subscribers for a monthly fee.

In early 2002, Sean Spector and Jung Suh partnered with founding CEO Toby Lenk to start GameFly.

GameFly later received venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital.

Launched on September 8, 2002, GameFly offered 6000 titles for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and the Nintendo GameCube.

In November 2004, GameFly added Nintendo DS games to rent.

On March 21, 2005, GameFly added PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) games to their offerings, and near the end of April 2005, GameFly also added UMD movies.

GameFly also began offering Xbox 360 titles prior to the launch of the console in November 2005.

On September 8, 2011, GameFly launched a beta version of the direct download to PC subscription.

GameFly offers four different plans, depending on how many games are rented at a time.

As of January 2008, besides hosting GTTV, Keighley can still be seen as a correspondent on another G4 show, The Electric Playground, and his work can be read in monthly columns on the GameFly website.

In 1999, Richard Stallman proposed the GNUPedia, an online encyclopedia which, similar to the GNU operating system, would be a " generic " resource.

With an open format similar to Wikipedia, any teacher may upload their courses online and a feedback system will help students choose relevant courses of the highest quality.

The act makes transactions from banks or similar institutions to online gambling sites illegal, with the notable exceptions of fantasy sports, online lotteries and horse / harness racing.

Several " Harold and Maude " fans have since built similar hearses from E-Types and photos of them can be found online.

It is interesting to note that ICI's online, fully interactive system pre-dated PC spreadsheets by quite a few years and allowed multiple users to use the spreadsheets at the same time, similar to today's Web based shared spreadsheets.

While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, social spam, television advertising and file sharing network spam.

The convergence in social tags may therefore be interpreted as the emergence of structures as people who have similar semantic interpretation collaboratively index online information, a process called semantic imitation.

With the rise of the World Wide Web as a platform for collaborative discussion and media dissemination, it became popular for adherents and practitioners of Wicca to establish ( often paid subscription-based ) " online covens " which remotely teach tradition-specific crafts to students in a similar method of education as non-religious virtual online schools.

A UPS designed for powering DC equipment is very similar to an online UPS, except that it does not need an output inverter.

# A hybrid rotary UPS, designed similar to an online UPS, except that it uses the flywheel in place of batteries.

This is an American law, however, the Federal Trade Commission has made it clear that the requirements of COPPA will apply to foreign-operated web sites if such sites " are directed to children in the U. S. or knowingly collect information from children in the U. S ." Other countries like Australia have made similar laws protecting children under 13 online.

For places without such services, online rideshare communities can serve similar purpose.

Eckert and other " post-Farmerian " writers ( denoting authors working with or in a similar vein as Eckert, who are admirers of Farmer's Wold Newton biographies and fiction ) have – through crossovers documented in Eckert's massive online Crossover Chronology ( published in book form by Black Coat Press in two volumes in 2010 as Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World ), and through parascholarly articles such as those appearing on the various WNU-themed websites online ; Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( edited by Win Scott Eckert, MonkeyBrain Books, 2005, a 2007 Locus Award finalist ) and in various issues of the pro-zine dedicated to and authorized by Farmer, Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer ( published by Michael Croteau, webmaster of the Official Philip José Farmer Home Page ) – brought numerous further fictional characters into the WNU.

A similar form of angle shooting which is mostly confined to the online game ( although not theoretically impossible in live poker ) is repeated short buying or short stacking.

While to rathole in the traditional sense is impossible in an online game, behavior considered to be similar to ratholing is quite easy.

In 1996, EchoStar's Dish Network went online in the United States and, as DirecTV's primary competitor, achieved similar success.

In the UK Skillsbox operates an online community system similar to LETS, letting users trade their skills and time for credits which can be spent within the online community.

The game is played online, in a fantasy setting similar to that of the other Ultima games that preceded it.

Since computer-controlled online editing had not been invented at the time, post-production video editing of the montage was achieved by the error-prone method of visualizing the recorded track with ferrofluid and cutting it with a razor blade or guillotine cutter and splicing with video tape, in a manner similar to film editing.

* In the online mulitplayer game RuneScape, there is a quest called " The Great Brain Robbery ", with similar plot elements.

Shopping and banking via the clacks is also mentioned, in a similar fashion to online shopping.