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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Facebook & Social Gaming One Year Later
A few articles over the weekend touch on Facebook becoming more of a social gaming platform and trying to leverage that success into a subscriber number. You has The Star; Facebookers can now become virtual art dealers and AllFacebook’s; Is Facebook the Napster of the Games Industry?. Both articles are featuring Gabe Zichermann who was [...]
Posted in Social Media Tagged "Prized Collection", "Social Gaming", Facebook, Scrabulous, Social Media Leave a comment
Weekly News & Link Roundup: June 8 – 14, 2008
Here is the latest news and stories having an affect on our industry over the last week. Our readers share bookmarks with the BandwidthCamp community by tagging them BandwidthCamp on del.icio.us (a social bookmarking tool). If you’d like to participate, sign-up for delicious and share articles you think the community might find interesting. Enjoy [...]
Posted in General Tagged "Branded Entertainment", "Burger King", "Virgin Airlines", AdAge, Advergaming, BandwidthCamp, CP+B, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Microsft, Mini-Coop, MySpace Leave a comment
Become One With the Game
Tim Zuckert, president-CEO of Shift Control Media, has penned a piece over at AdAge; Become One With the Game. He gives a nice overview of gaming and why more brands, Geico and Aflac, should get involved with video games.
Games are a reflection of your brand; they should be original and entertaining first and foremost.
Just as [...]
Posted in Advertising, Branding Tagged , "Burger King", "Sneak King", "Tim Zuckert", Advergame, Advergaming, branded-entertainment company, Branding, EA, Marketing, Xbox Games Leave a comment
The human joystick; Eisner thinks the product comes before the audience & More Wii Fit conspiracy then you can shack a stick at
Here’s a few of the things that caught my eye on the blogosphere this past week:
Reactrix has signed a deal with National CineMedia to create interactive displays in theater lobbies in the US. National CineMedia also developed a program called AdverGame that allows the audience in movie theaters to move as one fluid team and [...]
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Tipster Thursdays: Building On The Strong Flickr Community
Tipster Thursdays is a monthly feature covering technology and how you can incorporate it as part of your marketing plan. We’re going to look at different pieces of technology like Twitter, Pingie, Prologue, SmugMug, Qik and delicious and show you 5 different uses for the technology. This weeks column is going to look at Flickr.
Flickr [...]
AdverGames From Around The World
Here are a few advergames I came across over the last few weeks from around the world.
Sun Microsystems has a new game called Identity Hero, which has you play the role of an IT Manager. With the currengt shortage of IT workers and everyon trying to get people into the IT filed, this sounds like [...]
Posted in Advertising Tagged Advergame, Advergaming, Advertising, Crazy Kart, gaming Leave a comment
Top Facebook Applications: What Are Their Common Traits
Last week I sent out a tweet about the Top Facebook Applications website. I spent the last week going over the top 10 and seeing what the traditional games all have in common. There are only two traditional games in the top 10… Scrabulous & Texas HoldEm Poker. I find this interesting when you see [...]
Posted in Social Media Tagged "Facebook Applications", "Texas HoldEm Poker", Branding, Facebook, Mob Wars, Research, Scrabulous, Socialgame, SocialGaming, Trends Leave a comment
Weekly News & Link Roundup: June 22 – 28, 2008