Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), explained at the recent Digital Privacy Forum that several factors and consumer concerns have led to a rise of thinking about digital consumer privacy laws The Georgetown professor predicts that 2011 will be the year of debate over these laws.
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Hear from online privacy expert Marc Rotenberg at Digital Privacy Forum, January 20 in New York.
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Programmers worldwide are chomping at the bit for their chance at glory in the first ever Facebook ‘Hacker Cup’. In between bit-chomps, however, they’re taking the time to chuckle at the fear the word ‘hacker’ strikes into the hearts of a public that still is very confused about its true meaning.
Dan Porter, the CEO of OMGPOP was able to “drop some knowledge” about how to monetize and distribute social games throughout the web. He put it in the form of a Notorious B.I.G. classic, and presented us with the 10 commandments for game distribution and monetization.
Dennis Ryan, the EVP of Worldwide Publishing for PopCap — creators of games and brands, Bejeweled, Zuma and Plants vs Zombies – gave an insightful talk about what they’ve learned from social games at today’s Social Gaming Summit, and also revealed that Zuma Blitz is coming to Facebook this month.
Digital Chocolate, Trip explained, wants to be the Pixar of Mobile. They’re nearing 100 million application downloads and are one of the fastest growing game makers on Facebook. They have 5 studios on 3 continents, and they are growing rapidly. Most of their team is outside of the US. He discussed where social gaming is going to go in 2011.
Wrapping up this year’s series of Social Gaming and Virtual Goods Summits is the Social Gaming Summit East, taking place on December 1st in New York City. Read more about it below.
This year has been a dramatic one for social games. Leaders like Zynga have emerged as clear leaders and drawn unprecedented amounts of revenue, but have also been hit by losses as FarmVille finally dropped to the number 2 spot. EA has moved forward with Playfish in creating branded games based on the FIFA and Madden franchises, and Playdom was purchased by Disney. There’s a lot of change in the area and in my honest opinion, that’s made these last Social Gaming Summits really valuable.
At the last Social Gaming Summit, we had Gareth Davis from Facebook explaining some important insights as to how many players were playing games (200 million) and how important mobile is (200 million mobile Facebook users). At this event, we’ll have Trip Hawkins from Digital Chocolate explaining where the social games market is heading, Brian Balfour from Viximo explaining the advantage of non-Facebook networks and more. I’ll also be in attendance, and would love to hear more about your own projects in social games.
Looking forward to seeing you, and here’s the full list of speakers:
Albert Lai, Kontagent Founder & CEO
Nima Pourshasb, Live Gamer VP Corporate Development and Strategy
Trip Hawkins, Digital Chocolate CEO
Arjun Sethi, LOLapps CEO
Dennis Ryan, PopCap EVP Worldwide Publishing
Brian Balfour, Viximo Founder
Dan Porter, OMGPOP CEO
Paul Chen, Papaya Mobile Head of Business Development
Geoff Cook, MyYearbook CEO
Varvara Zolotova, Progrestar CMO
Alexey Kostarev, I-Jet Co-founder and general producer
Peter Wexler, TrialPay Director of Strategic Partnerships
Davin Miyoshi, GSN VP Social Games
Katharine Lewis, Fremantle Media, Deputy Head of FM Ventures
Robert Tomkinson, Playfish Head of Marketing
Manny Anekal, Zynga Director, Brand Advertising
Jessica Rovello, Arkadium Founder & Chairman
Gareth Davis, the often quoted Platform Manager for Games at Facebook took the stage at Social Gaming Summit London today and illuminated some interesting ideas about Facebook and gaming.
