Posts Tagged ‘Facebook Platform’

Interview: hi5 President Alex St. John Discusses Sumo, Avatars and Facebook [Video]

hi5alexlogo At last week’s Casual Connect the first day had people atwitter about the Facebook vs. hi5 sumo match up later that evening.  This was part of some ingenious marketing from the hi5 team, and they were looking to publicize the fact that their new development platform is ready to take on Facebook and establish hi5 as a truly great place to develop games.  I got to sit down with Alex St. John, the former founder of WildTangent and now CTO and President of hi5, about his plans for the site.  Check out the video after the jump.

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New Viximo Social Game Platform Enables Write Once, Publish Anywhere

The number of social game platform developers has been surging lately, with companies like HeyZap, Sibblingz, OpenFeint and others fighting to give game developers the tools they need to make the best social game around. Viximo is one of the newer players in the game, and they garner hushed praise whenever they’re brought up at dinner parties. That said, they’ve today launched a new platform which connects with several social networks through one API, allowing developers to develop once and port anywhere. What conditions will help Viximo become successful?

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