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• Social Gaming Roundup: Boku, iPhone Discovery, Pirates, and More

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  Boku Gets New Partners, Features, Languages - - Mobile payment provider Boku announced 12 new service partners this week: Zoosk , 6waves , Snap Interactive , Cie Studios , GameDuell , Cyberstep Communications , IGG , King.com , NHN USA , Ntreeve , Outspark , and Perfect World . Boku lets users purchase ...
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• ISG: Zynga Reaches 200M Monthly Active Users on Facebook, Spreads Beyond It

  
  Inside Facebook — Authority: 670
  Zynga has hit a new milestone on Facebook, and meanwhile, it has just launched a couple ways to increase its presence on the web: A stand-alone site for its hit game FarmVille and a new browser toolbar for Mafia Wars. The San Francisco company now has more than 200 million total monthly active users on the site, ...
  1 day ago

• Inside Virtual Goods: What Portion of Social Gaming Revenues Come From Offers?

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  This is a post by both Justin Smith and Charles Hudson When we set out to write the Inside Virtual Goods: The US Virtual Goods Market 2009-2010 research report earlier this year, we wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the payments ecosystem throughout all popular virtual goods markets in the US, especially ...
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• Can the Advertising Offers Business Find Redemption In Social Networks?

  
  Inside Facebook — Authority: 670
  The entire social gaming industry has been criticized in recent weeks for running deceptive advertising offers. But how bad has the problem been, really? After all, low-quality ads for weight loss, teeth whitening, and a range of other dubious promises run in major ad networks and appear on prominent web sites all ...
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• Offerpal releases policies for virtual goods offers

  
  BizReport — Authority: 593
  When it comes to online advertising new avenues are constantly popping up. One of the newest avenues is the virtual goods/currency avenue, by which consumers accrue points or currency and then send the points send virtual - or sometimes real goods - to friends and family. The proliferation of these opportunities ...
  2 days ago

• Virtual Goods, Offers, and Scams: Part 1

  
  ReveNews — Authority: 413
  There’s been alot of hype and debate around the concepts of virtual goods and offers due to a few high flying companies which have been media darlings. The highest profile company in question is Zynga, athough other social gaming sites and social networks have employed similar tactics. All have enormous user bases ...
  2 days ago

• Virtual Goods, Offers, and Scams: Part 1

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 144
  There’s been alot of hype and debate around the concepts of virtual goods and offers due to a few high flying companies which have been media darlings. The highest profile company in question is Zynga, athough other social gaming sites and social networks have employed similar tactics. All have enormous user bases ...
  2 days ago

• Hello Kitty Online, An MMO for a Younger Crowd, Is a Work In Progress

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  If there is any one Japanese, pop-culture icon that most people should be familiar with it is the cute cartoon cat, Hello Kitty. The downloadable title,  Hello Kitty Online , published by Aeria Games , seems like a great fit for the franchise. To clarify, Hello Kitty Online (HKO) is not a true “social” game ...
  2 days ago

• The Facebook Apps That Gained the Most Daily Active Users This Past Week

  
  Inside Facebook — Authority: 670
  We’ve just started publishing leaderboards of the Facebook applications with the most daily active users over on AppData . Just as we have been doing posts looking at which apps have gained the most monthly active users each week, we’re going to start doing posts looking at which apps have gained the most daily ...
  3 days ago

• FishVille: A Marinated Review

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  Okay, okay, it’s been more than a week since FishVille first launched . We were just marinating a formal review, that’s all. Frankly, even without a formal critique, the game has seen quite a bit of action, especially with the whole scammy offers fiasco that led to their removal, altogether, from Zynga games. ...
  3 days ago

• LOLapps Partners with Atari’s Cryptic Studios, Launches Champions Online on Facebook

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  LOLapps , a developer of Facebook apps and games funded by Polaris Ventures , got its start building a white label quiz and gift creation platform for Facebook users. Since then, however, it started developing its own original Facebook games , which have been moving up the charts recently . Today, the company’s ...
  4 days ago

• Viximo Powers Virtual Goods For Lady Gaga

  
  Social Networking Watch — Authority: 128
  PRWEB - Nov 17 -  Viximo , the provider of virtual goods solutions, willbe powering virtual goods for Lady Gaga and other Interscopeartists. Virtual goods based on Lady Gaga, like her disco stick andbubble dress, will be made available to Viximo’s network of socialnetworking, online dating, and casual gaming ...
  4 days ago

• ISG: Zynga Raises $15.2 Million At a $625 Million Valuation — Or Is This Old News?

  
  Inside Facebook — Authority: 670
  There are a couple dimensions to Zynga’s new $15.2 million funding. One is time. VentureBeat and peHUB reported the company’s latest regulatory filing earlier today. But, we heard rumors about “another round” of some sort that it was raising, back in April of this year. One source, who previously said ...
  4 days ago

• Zynga Raises $15.2 Million At a $625 Million Valuation — Or Is This Old News?

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  There are a couple dimensions to Zynga’s new $15.2 million funding. One is time. VentureBeat and peHUB reported the company’s latest regulatory filing earlier today. But, we heard rumors about “another round” of some sort that it was raising, back in April of this year. One source, who previously said ...
  4 days ago

• Viximo Adds Lady Gaga and Interscope Artists To A Growing Portfolio of Premium Virtual Goods

  
  Viximo Virtual Goods Market Blog — Authority: 104
  Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) November 17th, 2009 – Viximo, the only complete provider of virtual goods solutions, and Interscope Geffen A&M, a division of Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company, today announced that Viximo will be powering virtual goods for Lady Gaga and other Interscope artists. ...
  4 days ago

• Ghosts n’ Goblins: Can’t Beat It? Spend Some Money On Virtual Armor

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  Hailed as one of the most difficult video games ever, the franchise of Ghosts n’ Goblins/Ghouls ‘n Ghosts , staring our good friend King Arthur, has been the bane of gamer existence ever since its inception. However, the latest in Capcom ’s series, Ghosts n’ Goblins: Golden Knights for the iPhone and iPod ...
  4 days ago

• Hallmark Greets SocialCalendar with Funding, Co-Branding Deal

  
  Inside Facebook — Authority: 670
  Hallmark , the greeting card empire, already offers e-cards on its own web site and it even has a tiny Facebook application — but now it’s getting a much larger presence on Facebook through a strategic funding and partnership deal with SocialCalendar . The calendar and gifting application developer is now being ...
  4 days ago

• As Playfish Becomes Part of EA, Deciphering Its Latest Moves

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  When you get purchased by someone as huge as Electronic Arts (EA) , there is definitely a bit of turmoil as everyone tries to understand how the two companies will co-exist and work together. One of the more interesting things we’re seeing is a decline in daily active users (DAU) across the top Playfish titles ...
  4 days ago

• Small Facebook Games See Solid Growth on This Week’s Top Gainers List

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  Last week was notably good for smaller games and game developers, juding by our top 20 growing apps list. The most obvious “small app” is Zynga ’s FishVille , which we’ve covered separately as it grew by an impressive 8.24 million monthly active users last week to reach 9.24 million . Considering ...
  5 days ago

• How Big Will FishVille Get? It Already Has 9 Million Users, Mostly Gained Last Week

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 634
  It’s not totally clear what Zynga has been feeding FishVille , but the results are now obvious: The virtual aquarium application has reached 9.24 million users, according to AppData. The game actually launched early this month , but wasn’t being promoted through Facebook advertising or on Zynga’s toolbar ...
  5 days ago

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