Tag Archives: SocialGaming

Weekly News & Link Roundup: August 10 – 16, 2008

By Duane Brown | Published: August 16, 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 [...]
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Top Facebook Applications: What Are Their Common Traits

By Duane Brown | Published: June 3, 2008
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 [...]
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Weekly News & Link Roundup: February 10 – 16, 2008

By Duane Brown | Published: February 16, 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. This [...]
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Zynga Game Network: A Social Gaming Company

By Duane Brown | Published: January 20, 2008
I was looking through the bookmarked items this morning in my rss feed and came across this story in the New York Times; More Than Games, a Net to Snare Social Networkers. The story talks about the Zynga Game Network, a company devoted to developing online games that work on the pages of popular [...]
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The Real Stats on Facebook Games

By Duane Brown | Published: January 14, 2008
Nabeel Hyatt, founder and CEO of Conduit Labs, over at Brinking has a post showing the states of games on Facebook verses all the applications. With an average install base of 2.7m users for top Facebook games, this is a massive new distribution channel that makes the curated Xbox Live Arcade look like a backwater. I’ll [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 6

By Duane Brown | Published: August 22, 2007
Sorry this is a little later then I thought it would be. As I wrap up this feature series and look back on what I’ve learned, conceived and come to the conclusion on,.. it’s pretty interesting. It’s also helped me take more initiative at my day job where I work with such a forward thinking [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 5

By Duane Brown | Published: August 15, 2007
Kongregate may have what it takes to becoming the social gaming platform of choice on Facebook. I started playing around with the Kongregate and love the variety of games that they have featured. Check out this cool video of the founders of Kongregate. To have a killer gaming app, regardless of platform, you need to [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 4

By Duane Brown | Published: August 10, 2007
Money makes the world go round or so the saying goes. The only thing that can have as much value as money is information and Facebook has that. So now it’s starting to go after the money. Facebook has had advertisings on the site in the past as a way to break even and make [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 3

By Duane Brown | Published: August 7, 2007
Last week we looked at the community aspect of Facebook and how it’s vital to any startup. This week I wanted to look at the infrastructure and money aspect of Facebook. The money part is particularly interesting as they unveiled their rate card last week. However, at the same time some advertisers have withdrawn their [...]
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Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 2

By Duane Brown | Published: August 1, 2007
A few nights ago we started this series off with a high overview of what this feature will entail. Now we get to jump in the deep end of the pool and get started. A key part of the internet that is becoming more relevant with each passing year and website is community. A smart [...]
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