Category Archives: all things social
Twitter launches 6-second video service.. Twitter´s first porn gaffe
Accidentally promoting pornography on a new social media service is not the ideal way to generate interest in your offerings, but that’s what Twitter accidentally did on Monday on its new Vine video service. Twitter blames ¨human error¨ for pornographic video … Continue reading
The King Reigns
king.com is being sold as a rocketship success.. to me they are a methodical set of pragmatists. three things they seem to have done well to this point: they run all games at an MVP level until it gets a … Continue reading
Snackable sports betting
Looks to be a good model for social sports play. I agree with the CEO that most big operators (especially public) will look to acquire their way into the space. http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2013/01/09/brandon-ramsey-on-creating-snackable-sports-betting-game-fanhood-sports/
Investing in Social and Mobile Games
Good article on the current game business environment. even if you are not doing app dev, it will be important to understand the major shift. it was a bit like the poker bubble in 2005… anything related to poker sold … Continue reading
Facebook games and statistics
I have been researching for a client Facebook statistics around games on Facebook, and interestingly enough their adoption and usage. One of the key elements to Facebook games is the recruitment of players when considering just how busy Facebook is … Continue reading
Where’s All This Interest Come From?
One of the wonderful things about social media is that you never really know what will take off? Who would have thought that when MySpace was the behemoth of the embryonic social sphere that Facebook would, over the course of … Continue reading
Social Media Works for Online Games
Everyone quotes Zynga, and yes they are doing well, but that is no surprise when you think of the medium and the time involved when judged against traditional methods for bringing a game to market and more importantly getting the … Continue reading
The Time is Now!
Anyone who knows me will know that, despite all the many wonderful social media worlds we can now exist in, I’m not the best at keeping things up to date. Alas, I endeavour to change this and I’m approaching my … Continue reading
