Posts Tagged ‘Events’

At the Inside Social Apps conference today in San Francisco, a number of leading social game executives participated in a discussion about the “Future of Facebook as a social gaming platform”. While there were a number of takeaways, the most significant statistic that many attendees found to be interesting was that two-thirds of Facebook’s page [...]

Last night MySpace unveiled a new events page, integrating close to 1 million concert listings and links to purchase tickets, providing the company with another potential revenue stream. It’s a great product roll out, however the odds are against the social networking behemoth who has seen traffic consistently slide over the past year.

Eight student teams from around the world will gather at the United Nations tomorrow for the inaugural SPIRIT conference, a one-day event that aims to let young adults “micro-contribute” to international peacemaking.

What do Zach Galifianakis, Lisa Kudrow, David Wain and Felicia Day have in common? They’re all nominees in the 2010 Streamy Awards, an annual awards ceremony dedicated to honoring excellence and originality in web television. The second annual Streamy Awards will take place in LA this Sunday, April 11, and will also stream live on [...]

“Its a myth that Twitter links are nofollow”search guru Danny Sullivan told me at his conference, SMX West. Danny warns readers not to be fooled because links in tweets are marked “nofollow” on Twitter.com – Twitter should be part of your SEO strategy. I later confirmed Twitter’s SEO value with Google’s findability guru Maile Ohye [...]

With Flash Gaming Summit (FGS) and Game Developers Conference 2010 (GDC) now over, we’d like to take the opportunity to reflect on some of the key takeaways. One of the most discussed areas was career opportunities in the gaming industry, particularly in the area of social gaming. Here’s a few of the opportunities gleaned from [...]

If you are looking for a job in social games, you better be ready to be guided by metrics and not just your creative genius. That’s what Scott Jennings told a small groups of gaming enthusiasts and curious minds during a conversation led by him and James Au (of ohai) at SXSW 2010. It was [...]

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2010 this year, Amitt Mahajan, a lead developer of Farmville, revealed that the entire development of Farmville took five weeks, that Zynga has a clear understanding of their userbase, and that they are integrating developers into the design process. These achievements are not common practice to the console gaming [...]

According to four panelists at the FGS 2010 Flash Gaming Summit in San Francisco, if you’re designing and developing a social game, there are a few critical elements to be considered if you want it to be a success. The panel, entitled “4 Keys to Successful Social Games that All Game Developers Should  Know,” was [...]

Last week we formally announced our upcoming Social Developer Summit in San Francisco, however some people are still confused about the event. This post offers some clarifications. In the social web economy, many use the term “developers” when describing organizations that build applications on top of platforms. While it’s not inaccurate to use this term, [...]