Bret on Social Games: Do Gaming Networks Work?: Reach and Engagement Numbers for Zynga and SGN

As anyone who reads this blog knows, back in February Zynga and SGN opened up their game networks to 3rd party developers. For the moment, these networks are essentially link exchanges facilitated through game bars…

How to Scale a Facebook Game to 300 million pageviews a month

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While tracking down a presentation that Friends for Sale did, I ran across this excellent interview they did about scaling their backend at highscalability.com. It’s fairly technical, but worth the read for anyone…

Friends For Sale: Designing a Game for the Platform v. the Channel

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First, what is Friends for Sale? Here’s the description from the developer:Buy and sell your friends as pets! You can make your pets poke, send gifts, or just show off for you. Make money as a shrewd pets investor or as…

SGN v. Zynga Round 3 - SGN buys 1 million active users

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I have a suspicion that brand advertisers don’t really get the social networking app arena. Why? Because Zynga and SGN have both been buying up apps with lots of dead installs. Dead installs are only useful for two…

Bret on Social Games: Do Gaming Networks Work?: Reach and Engagement Numbers for Zynga and SGN

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Friends For Sale! displaces Scrabulous as the top game on Facebook

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That was quick. Last Tuesday I predicted that Friends for Sale! would be the top game on Facebook. At that point, Friends for Sale! was about 60,000 daily active users behind Scrabulous. As of today, Friends For…

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