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social games prezi

i had to do a couple of presentations last week and i thought i’d do one of them in prezi its a great presentation tool which uses a large screen instead of a slide and you bounce along through it. my learning curve was extremely steep (and actually too long) because; 1) i’m crap at […]

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WoW vs Farmville

http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fmodules%2Fgoogle_insightsforsearch_interestovertime_searchterms.xml&up__property=empty&up__search_terms=world+of+warcraft%7Cfarmville&up__location=empty&up__category=0&up__time_range=12-m&up__compare_to_category=false&synd=ig&w=320&h=350&lang=en-US&title=Google+Insights+for+Search&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js I have been head down in budget season, which is challenging but fun (how to forecast 18 months in the future with 1 month of data- always interesting). Something that i picked up during this was how huge Farmville had become. Now everyone knows that 62 million play it monthly, but what you don’t […]

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social gaming- what’s it all about

Games are big news in the entertainment industry. I know I have to say that because games pay my salary, but if you look at game they’re moving out of the preserve of geeky teenagers and into the family sphere. I think the wii has done a lot for making games accessible to people who […]

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Putting your brand into the wild

Zynga is one of the top social games developers out there with revenues of $100MM annually (or so they say). They’re as web 2.0 as you can get (their games are developed for social networks) so it would stand to reason that they’re active on twitter and the other networks. Only problem being that their […]