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Zynga filed their S1 last Friday, and while some have focused on how rich CEO Mark Pincus and his officers could become, I’ve been looking at the financials and trying to tie it back to their daily active users (DAU) to look at revenue per DAU or ARPU (Average Revenue per User) so we could have some industry benchmarks. The revenue figures are impacted by some accounting rules as to when the revenues can be recognized. Items that are consumables (like fuel or energy or components that are purchased and used) can be recognized within a month, while durable items (like tractors or décor that are used over time) take a longer time to be recognized (it isn’t specified in the S1, but it typically is amortized over the life of a user – for more discussion to revenue recognition, see this blog post from Bill Gurley ).
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Understanding the impact of a socialised world and mapping the social web, mobile and ubiquitous connectivity, the quantified self and health applications, big data and the impact on measuring, predicting and tracking health. How can games rock the health and pharma world? What is a game? Motivational design, games for health, immersive gaming and narrative based simulation, the virtual world and how we can harness gamers for science.
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SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman , the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about web luminaries like: Julia Allison, Michael Arrington, Steve Ballmer, Henry Blodget, Chris Brogan, Robert Bruce, Paul Carr, Pete Cashmore, Brian Clark, Ron Conway, Henry Copland, Jay Cuthrell, Mike Daisey, Barry Diller, Jack Dorsey, Dan Farber, Steve Gillmor, Paul Graham, MC Hammer, Shel Israel, Andrew Jecklin, Steve Jobs, Kim Kardashian, Ashton Kutcher, Loic LeMeur, Jakob LodwickIf you're a little too impatient to wait for the Absinthe jailbreak tool to make its way to Windows, good news, there's another option. The iPhone Dev Team has released Corona, a command line-based option for Mac and Windows 7 that will deliver Cydia to your iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1-running iPhone 4S or iPad 2. Obviously, you'll want to be comfortable with the terminal and command prompt but, if you can handle a little CTRL+c and CTRL+v action, jailbreaking your brand new iOS device shouldn't prove too difficult. Hit up the source link for complete instructions on how to free your shiny A5 portable from Apple's shackles while still using your Microsoft machine.
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A peine le dernier jeu Saint Seiya disponible qu’il est déjà temps de penser au prochain. Mais attention, cette fois, vous ne revisiterez pas pour la douzième fois le Sanctuaire, ses courants d’air et ses flèches au pif. C’est de la nouvelle série animé dont il est question : Saint Seiya Omega , qui se déroule après la saga Hades.
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Inside Facebook - Tracking Facebook and the Facebook Platform fo
Consumers who sign up for Plink can earn Facebook Credits when they use their credit card at brick-and-mortar locations, such as Taco Bell, Quiznos and 7-Eleven. Plink is one of a few companies betting on the rise of the social network’s virtual currency, Credits. “Facebook Credits are proving to be the missing ingredient that bridges the gap between social media marketing and offline sales,” Plink co-founder Peter Vogel said in a press release.
Inside Social Games - Tracking Innovation at the Convergence of
Jewel Journey is a match-3 puzzle title for Facebook. The developer’s name is conspicuously absent from the game canvas and its fan page, making it hard to pin down exactly who created it. Judging from the fan page in question, however, it’s possible to see that the game has been available from around January 2012, and it is also currently showing up in the “Newest” list on Facebook’s Games page. Jewel Journey is a competent but unremarkable example of the match-3 genre, bringing no real innovations to the table. It even goes so far as to use the clichéd premise of the player being an archaeologist, but does not force this with intrusive, badly-written dialog scenes. Instead, it serves as the justification for the titular “journey” through a series of stages, beginning in the Grand Canyon and later moving on to an army base, a frozen wasteland, the lost city of Atlantis and some Mayan ruins.Inside Virtual Goods - Tracking the Virtual Goods and Social Gam
With an up-to-$2 billion IPO that Zynga may file in the coming weeks to fund its continued global expansion, Facebook's migration to Credits, Google's launch of Google+, and the continued rapid growth of in-app purchase-based businesses on the iOS and Android mobile platforms, virtual goods are impacting businesses across the media landscape. Virtual goods, and the companies that distribute them, are continuing to bring about one of the largest disruptions entertainment, communication, and e-commerce infrastructure businesses have seen in years...Inside Social Apps 2010 - April 20th in San Francisco
Inside Social Apps 2012 brings together today's leading developers of social and mobile apps and games for a two-day summit on the future of app and game growth and monetization on social and mobile platforms. Discussions will tackle key issues and explore new opportunities facing social and mobile apps and games, including monetization, app and game design, marketing, and distribution on established and emerging platforms.Games for Social Networks - Notes On The Design and Business of
In this new world of service-based, free-to-play games, the product manager may be the most important person in the company (second only to the game designer; in some cases more important.) And no, a product manager is not a new term for a “game designer”. A game designer, traditionally at least, didn’t have to worry about the business objectives. They may have been the consumer champion but that was based on instinct and ego. A product manager needs to temper that instinct with data, the ambition with resource limitations, the game design with revenue requirements.If gamers could dream up their fantasy all-star multiplayer game, a live-action version would probably end up looking like this, with a mash-up of Halo, Team Fortress 2, Mass Effect 3, and a surprise guest at the end.