#Google+ Zynga+ = Android Geek Gamer Moola

11Aug11

Posts popping everywhere from “Go away Google+” to hot or not faceoffs between Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin.  Devs tweeting:  “#G+, I can make what???”  Angry Birds, Sudoku, Edgeworld, Dragon Age Legends riding the coverage train.  Break knocking it out of the park with their Google+ primer.  The material so rich, it’s a great day to be a blogger. […]

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Tags: Angry Birds, Break, Deal or No Deal, Dragon Age Legends, EA, Edgeworld, Facebook, Family Feud, Google, GSN, iWin, Kabam, Sergey BRin, Sims Social, Sudoku, Wheel of Fortune, Zuckerberg

#SXSW Serendipity, Stamina, Survival

22Mar11

SXSW was insane. At my Future 15 presentation, I had the stage between Ben Relles, YouTube’s Next New Networks founder, and Evan Spiridellis, Jib Jab Founder, and focused my talk on counting clicks for conversion and capitalizing on the moment of monetization.  But I didn’t shock the monkey until I called out a prediction that […]

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2011 Game Releases/Fan Wikis, Developer Diaries, Trailers

13Feb11

With DICE behind us, #GDC around the corner, and fan fests galore coming up beginning with PAX East, SXSWi, C2E2, EVE and WonderCon, I compiled this game release calendar for the rest of the year to help us track fan wikis, developer diaries, previews and trailers.  Watch for updates and let’s see who will top the $1 […]

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Tags: 38 Studios, Activision, Alice, Atari, Atlus, Batman, Battlefield Heroes 3, Bioshock, BioWare, Bulletstorm, C2E2, Call of Duty Black Ops, Capcom, Cokem, Crave, DICE, Disney, Duke Nukem, EA, Elder Scrolls, Epic, EVE Online, GDC, Insomniac, iWin, Kinect, Konami, Legend of Zelda, LucasArts, Marvel, Mass Effect 3, Mortal Kombat, NAMCO, Nintendo, PAX East, Playstation, Portal 2, PS3, Rabbids, Rockstar Games, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Super Mario, Take 2, Tecmo Koei, Thor, THQ, Trion, Ubisoft, Visceral, WB, Wii, Wondercon, WoWWiki, Xbox 360

#CES The Guide

06Jan11

CES is in full swing and you can follow all of the action at #CES.  The always inspiring head of CEA Gary Shapiro opened with his The Comeback:  How The American Dream Will Restore Innovation, the book he just published with a forward from Mark Cuban.  You can watch it here under the videos tab along […]

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#CES/The Guide!The Guide!

16Dec09

Tu 1/5 – W 1/6, Th 1/7 – Su 1/10 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 110,000 expected, 2500 exhibitors, 800 speakers, 250 conference sessions incl Digital Hollywood, Connections, and Digital Media Wire, it’s the largest digital media event of the year! Las Vegas Convention Center, Hilton, Venetian, spanning the Las Vegas Strip http://www.cesweb.org Tu 1/5 12-4, V Titian […]

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#DLRconf Digital Living Room, #HRTS Hitmakers, #CES

14Dec09

This is it!  The last week of conferences for the year and what a way to go out. Digital Living Room will be celebrating connected devices at Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara tomorrow and on Wednesday HRTS is lunching with the showrunners of Modern Family, Glee, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother and Rescue Me at […]

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#EngageExpo/Trip Hawkins, PlaySpan Virtual Goods Market Study

01Oct09

Last week was also a big week for exploring virtual goods and in-game monetization as Engage! Expo (Virtual Goods, Social Media, Digital Law, 3DTLC – 4 conferences in one) landed in Silicon Valley.  An event praised by attendees for being a more intimate venue with far greater access and better schwag than most.  Speakers included […]

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#VDC09/VCast App Store, More Ways to Make $

28Jul09

With Verizon entering the app store game, there are now more ways for coders to make money.  Here are the highlights from today’s Verizon Developer Community (VDC) Conference: – VCast App Store 4Q09, goal is to provide more apps than anyone – not offering an SDK, instead offering open APIs compatible with underlying SDK for […]

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Tags: Blackberry, Capcom, EA, Gameloft, Gravity, iSkoot, Networks in Motion, PacketVideo, Siri, Slacker, Tribal Tech, VCast App Store, VDC09, Verizon, Zed Group

#MobileBeat/The Guide

15Jul09

What an exciting month in the mobile space!  Today MEF hosted the Telecom Council at Microsoft.  Verizon’s Developers Conference is coming up.  iPhone Developers Camp is at month end.  And tomorrow is VentureBeat’s MobileBeat at the Parc 55 Hotel on 55 Cyril Magnin Street in San Francisco.  From 8-8 everyone in the industry is talking. […]

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Social Gaming Summit, Boxee Dev Challenge/The Guides

22Jun09

From 3rd Power LLC, the producers of the iGames Summit 2009 and Virtual Goods Summit 2009, comes the Social Gaming Summit 2009, tomorrow at the Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, San Francisco.  And what a blast it will be. It’s going to be an awesome crowd with over 450 expected including EA, GigaOm, socialDeck, Viximo, VentureWire, […]

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