Booyah! MyTown hits 1 million users before Foursquare or Gowalla
Booyah, the Kleiner Perkins iFund company, just announced that its hit location-based social game, MyTown, has passed 1 million registered users. MyTown is an extremely successful free iPhone game that enables users to buy and sell real world locations. Users then get points by “checking in” to locations through their iPhone. Competitors Foursquare and Gowalla [...]
Kongregate shares a case study on monetizing browser-based online games
Kongregate, which operates a web site for indie games, is announcing today it has had good success with its app platform for browser-based games. What’s more, it’s sharing some metrics so that it can show potential developers how it can make them money.
The San Francisco-based company launched its Konduit Application Platform in December. The idea [...]
Kongregate launches Konduit app platform for Flash-based games
Indie-oriented game site Kongregate is launching an application platform today that allows developers to integrate Kongregate’s community features into any browser-based game.
Previously, developers uploaded games to Kongregate, which served the games from its own infrastructure. With the Konduit Application Platform, developers can replicate the way they operate on Facebook; they can create games in [...]
MySpace is a big gaming platform but it hopes to be more of one
Many of MySpace’s nearly 125 million monthly active users are already playing social games made by companies like Playdom and Zynga. But the News Corp.-owned social network is hoping for more, chief digital officer Jonathan Miller said today at the Fortune Brainstorm: Tech conference happening in Pasadena, Calif.
“MySpace is and will be more in the [...]
Facebook Connect now available in more languages
Around 70 percent of Facebook’s 250 million monthly active users are outside of the US, and most of them aren’t speaking English. The site has been seeing massive growth around the world, partly the result of Facebook letting users translate the site into their own languages over the past couple of years. Now, the company [...]
SuperFan Combines Social Gaming With Fan Worship
There has never been a better time to be a “fan” online. Whether it be via Facebook, MySpace, or even through fan-based social networks like TopFans, fandom on the web is taking off now that fans have more ways of expressing themselves. Just look at the recently deceased Michael Jackson, whose Facebook page now has [...]
