August 2010
1 post
DustForce! →
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July 2010
1 post
Fwd: Techcrunch: Disney about to acquire Playdom →
June 2010
1 post
Man Who Enjoys Thing Informed He Is Wrong →
May 2010
3 posts
Funny GalCiv2 30-day diary →
Enough →
If Super Mario Bros Was Made In 2010 →
April 2010
4 posts
How Tutorials Make or Break Your Social Game →
Why You Can't Work at Work →
A guide to Sonic's physics →
Farmville on Eurogamer! →
March 2010
4 posts
Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful... →
Pay for girls to play with you! →
How insaniquarium 2 became Plants v Zombies →
How Gravity Bear got social games all wrong →
February 2010
3 posts
Our next Music Pet!!!!! →
Facebook Credits Boosting Virtual Goods Sales By... →
stop being an idiot →
January 2010
1 post
top demos of 09
I love these things. http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/01/special_the_best_of_the_2009_demos.php
December 2009
8 posts
Billboard Top 25 Mashup
The Top 25 Pop Hits of 2009, all in one song. Someone restrain Langer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNzrwh2Z2hQ&feature=player_embedded
More zombie beat-matching (on the iphone) →
Gamasutra on Zynga →
Beat-Matching Zombie Shooter →
Study: 58% Of Users Buy Goods From Free-To-Play... →
Better to be Sexy than Worthy →
Design Hell... →
Lessons from PumpkinZonia.com on viral tactics and... →
November 2009
7 posts
Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement →
The Dark Side of Lean Startups →
Gravity Bear unveils its first social fighting... →
Ohai Launches Vampire MMO Online and in Facebook →
Max Levchin on Slide's new big bet →
Time magazine article about mafia Wars
My favorite quote, “The truth is, you don’t really play *Mafia Wars*; it plays you. It rewards you lavishly for doing next to nothing and for propagating its viral spores further and further into your social network, thereby perpetuating its existence. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1935113,00.html
How big social games maintain their sticky factors →
Gifting, Achievements.
October 2009
9 posts
interesting article on Silicon Valley's dominance... →
Hulu to go sub? (Also, biz speak for dummies) →
L4D Opening Cinematic →
FarmVille's Sweet Seeds Raise $487K For Charity →
Meez games/avatars/virtual goods in MySpace →
Rock Band iPhone App (techcrunch article) →
Facebook To Go Live On XBox Later This Month
At the beginning of June I wrote about the new Facebook XBox integration>, and according to a number of sources, the beta is going live later this month with the full release coming by November 17th. So what does this mean for the future of gaming? It simply means that we’ll see further integration between console games and the social stream. Story:...
Virtual Gift Giving (sponsored items) on Twitter →
Flash comes to iPhone, um, apps →
September 2009
16 posts
http://www.doublefine.com/site/comments/twenty_years_only_a_few_tears/
nabeel: "When we were building Flickr, we worked... →
: “When we were building Flickr, we worked very hard…a lot of what we then considered “working hard” was actually “freaking out”. Freaking out included panicking, working on things just to be working…
nabeel: "What about iTunes? Doesn’t that show... →
: “What about iTunes? Doesn’t that show people will pay for content? Well, not really. iTunes is more of a tollbooth than a store. They offer a convenient list of songs, and whenever you choose one…
Re: The 20 Fastest Growing Facebook Apps: Mostly...
This also doesn’t even have to be a separate app, but could instead be one of the main viral hooks in the dance game (sending song, dance and message to a friend for a certain occasion or for fun/trash talking/cheer me up/joke, etc.) On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Josh Hubball wrote: > Loudcrowd Music Greetings app? Doesn’t have to be someone’s b-day and you > could...
Re: The 20 Fastest Growing Facebook Apps: Mostly...
Loudcrowd Music Greetings app? Doesn’t have to be someone’s b-day and you could select a song that conveys the desired theme, select a dance, and send to a friend. And when it IS someone’s b-day, you could use the first 30 seconds of 50 Cent’s “In Da Club”: “Go shorty, it’s your birthday, we gonna party like it’s yo birthday, we gonna sip...
The 20 Fastest Growing Facebook Apps: Mostly...
Number one gainer was Birthday Cards from RockYou, which gained 5.2 MILLION installs this WEEK! And while Inside Facebook is not really sure why it turned around, we know
Steve: AGDC - inside look at WoW's team... →
Good amount of numbers and details here. 66 community managers!
Kanye Disses Loudcrowd →