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Heyzap Hops Onto the Virtual Goods Bandwagon

Jennifer Martinez wrote 5 days ago: When Heyzap, the San Francisco-based startup that offers up casual, Flash-based games for publisher … more →

Tags: CNN Startups, NYT Enterprise, NYT Startups, SYN Feature Enterprise, Web, Casual games, HeyZap, immad akhund, jude gomila

Review: YoVille (Free): Zynga, Facebook

Appgamr wrote 1 week ago: Like home decoration? YoVille on Facebook is for you. I’ve been following YoVille for about a … more →

Tags: Reviews, facebook, Free, YoVille, zynga, Home & Decoration

Five Reason Why People Send Virtual Gifts3 comments

Ravi Mehta wrote 1 week ago: Last year, my company, Viximo, released its first product in partnership with BigDates Solutions, ma … more →

Tags: Online Dating, social networking, virtual gifts

AdMob - Monetizing the Mobile Revolution

Dan Butterfield wrote 3 weeks ago: Video Interview: Omar Hamoui AdMob on Bloomberg AdMob is the world’s largest mobile advertisin … more →

Tags: iPhone, app store, Admob, Omar Hamouri, Subscriptions, embedded ads, monetize, Online Advertising, Mobile Advertising

Asia's five billion dollar virtual goods market place?

nekkidben wrote 3 weeks ago: Just flicked through this fairly interesting report on Asia’s virtual goods market, put out by … more →

Tags: Online, Research, Asia

Virtual goods vs virtual services (how to get RMT right)20 comments

spinks wrote 3 weeks ago: RMT (real money transactions) is currently the hot new charging strategy for MMOs which are not WoW … more →

Tags: General MMO, Real Money Transactions, RMT, supermarket, Virtual Services

Facebook Payment System for Virtual Goods

aplink wrote 1 month ago: Facebook has begun tapping a new revenue stream with the introduction of an internal payments system … more →

Tags: aplink, Andrew Peters, facebook, Facebook Payment System, Marketing, PR, Public Relations, Singapore, singapore events

Trading virtual goods can have real value -$$$

abegumd wrote 2 months ago: That’s what Julian Dibbell argues compellingly in his book, Play Money: How I Quit My Day Job and … more →

Tags: MMO's, julian dibbell, Online Games, Second-Life

Future of social payment platforms10 comments

jeremyliew wrote 2 months ago: Inside Facebook reports 35% quarter on quarter growth for social media payment provider platforms. … more →

Tags: Payments, social games, social gaming

Best Intentions

mattbeswick wrote 2 months ago: When starting this I knew I’d have trouble keeping up with things. Time is hugely limited nowa … more →

Tags: Social Media, Monetization, Affiliate Marketing, Gaming, social games, Casual games, virtual currency

Erik Bethke on game balance in free to play games1 comment

jeremyliew wrote 3 months ago: Interesting quote from Massively’s GDC coverage about how to design for Real Money Trading: Be … more →

Tags: Game design, Game mechanics, Games, games 2.0

Social gaming is a tactic not a category8 comments

jeremyliew wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been blogging a lot about social games over the past couple of years and have been a big … more →

Tags: Business models, Games, games 2.0, Gaming, social games, social gaming, Viral, Viral marketing

With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple Takes Aim at Game Consoles

ajain wrote 3 months ago: Apple may have single-handedly revived the mobile games market.  Within 8 months of iPhone 3G’s laun … more →

Tags: Games, app store, iPhone, Nintendo, Wii, PSP, NDS, MMOG

How To Monetize a Social Network: MySpace and Facebook Should Follow TenCent80 comments

bgurley wrote 3 months ago: “Little Joe never once gave it away Everybody had to pay and pay”                   — L … more →

Tags: advertising, Casual games, Internet, social networking, Video, Avatars, Digital Items, facebook, MySpace

still misunderstanding micropayments2 comments

ginsu wrote 4 months ago: Please, Shirky, don’t hurt me. See, in the past Clay Shirky has expressed some healthy, justif … more →

Tags: Business, micropayments, Secondlife

Why do people buy virtual goods?9 comments

jeremyliew wrote 4 months ago: I have an opinion piece in the WSJ.com on why people buy virtual goods today. … more →

Tags: digital goods

What could Facebook do to increase its digital goods revenue - increase Motive. 3/38 comments

jeremyliew wrote 5 months ago: I’ve been posting on what Facebook could do to increase its sales of digital gifts, breaking … more →

Tags: digital goods, facebook, gifts

What could Facebook do to increase its digital goods revenue - increase Means. 2/310 comments

jeremyliew wrote 5 months ago: We are looking at how Facebook could increase its digital goods revenue by improving the Means, Moti … more →

Tags: digital goods, facebook, gifts

What could Facebook do to increase its digital goods revenue - increase Opportunity. 1/38 comments

jeremyliew wrote 5 months ago: Last September I estimated that Facebook is doing around $35m in digital goods sales. In November an … more →

Tags: digital goods, facebook, gifts


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