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 the founder of Trymedia and an early client of Napster. Now he’s involved with rmbr.com. He cites a few successful games on Facebook and most notable Scrabulous.

 Scrabulous took an established game and leveraged Facebook as a social utility to achieve a new level of success for the game Scrabble (at least its hard to believe that the board game would have over 600 concurrent users 6.22.08)

We’ll see if his own game, Prized Collection, is ready for prime time. You can check out some posts I wrote a year ago on Facebook becoming the next social gaming platform.

Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 1
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 2
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 3
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 4
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 5
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 6

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