What Social And Casual Internet Game Companies Can Learn From Online Gambling
July 31st, 2011
Courtesy of Kevin’s Corner, an interesting look at what social and casual internet game companies can learn from online gambling: Recently I have published blog items primarily focused on educating online gambling operators on the virtues and threat of social games to their operations. In point of fact, I have been a bit unfair to […]
Read more »Making Internet Gambling Social
July 26th, 2011
Via Kevin’s Corner, an interesting look at how firms could making internet gambling more social: “…I recently read an article indicating that Zynga was responsible for generating 500,000 USD for Facebook in the last year. $400,000 of this revenue was from the 30% cut Facebook is taking on virtual currency transactions with 100,000 coming from […]
Read more »Fair Game?
July 14th, 2011
Via Wired, a very interesting article on the use of gamification by online companies to get you to share – and spend – more: Zynga, Facebook, Apple, and many other online companies and services are refining techniques developed by game developers to keep you in their game. You’re not stupid, but you can be fooled. […]
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