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I was thinking this morning why it is that I don’t log into Facebook, and then as if we were somehow connected in the ether I saw this tweet from Calacanis:
just realized i haven’t logged into Facebook in a week or two. used to login 2-3x a day. hmmm… when did you login [...]
As reported on Techcrunch Scrabulous has been wiped off Facebook, following legal action against the owners of Scrabulous by Hasbro, who own the rights to the board game.
This issue has been rumbling on since April when Hasbro released their own version of Scrabble for Facebook and started to turn up the heat [...]
At the beginning of the year I blogged a bit about games in social networks (here and here), since then the category has gone from strength to strength as measured by app installs and usage – e.g. Playfish had 900 million minutes of usage across its three games in June, up from 300 million [...]
I have had a few conversations recently about the difference between media and communications. The dominant idea for as long as I can remember has been that media and communications are converging – and this is undeniably the case in the sense that many of us buy a blend of media and entertainment from [...]
Last week Jeff Nolan wrote a post entitled Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” where he bemoans the lack of true innovation and the state of venture capital generally. He is talking about Silicon Valley, but what he writes applies equally over here in Europe.
He correctly observes that a lot of money is [...]
I was pleased to read on Techcrunch yesterday a report on the the Web 2.0 Expo entitled Facebook Platform Faces Rough Road Ahead, Despite Successes – it is good to see some reality kicking in.
It seems the conference is concerned about the fading performance of early star Facebook apps (e.g. Zombies) and by [...]
According to the New York Times Mattel and Hasbro who between them own the global rights to Scrabble have released their own version of Scrabble for Facebook, or rather got Gamehouse, a division of Real Networks to do it for them.
On top of Scrabulous’s 600,000 plays per day this is further evidence of [...]
Over on Snipperoo Ivan is pushing the idea that the destination site is on it’s way out. The idea follows on nicely, of course, from his obsession with widgets, but as usual I think he might be on to something.
Ivan’s main point is that many, many people use search engines to get to [...]
Fred Wilson has an interesting post today on The Second Order Network Effect. He is mostly talking about his recent investment in Zynga, a social game developer and now game network.
Zynga has a number of it’s own pretty successful games and recently opened up it’s API so other game developers could [...]
The first wave of games on Facebook were very popular, but as their usage has dropped they have come in for a lot of stick as being pointless and unsustainable. Games like Vampires have been the most heavily criticised and as this chart from Adanomics shows usage is decling rapidly. A quick surf around [...]
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