Mark Pincus Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
last week we mailed checks for around $550k to fatem.org and fonkoze.org. we were proud to see so many of our farmville players participate in this program which has raised over $700k to date. following is more info on the...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | yesterday
The latest video game craze sweeping America is a surprisingly cute Facebook application that doesn’t include even a single laser gun. FarmVille has attracted 60 million players, 22 million of whom still check in on their farms every day, harvesting crops, tending livestock, and helping their neighbors scare off foxes....
Mashable (Free subscription) | yesterday
While some of us might be willing to pay to make Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars go away, it appears that Wall Street has other ideas. Specifically, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities tells Bloomberg that “If the IPO [for Zynga] were timed to price around mid-2010 or later, our expectation would be for a billion dollar or greater valuation.” That number is based on the...
Online Spin (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Last week, I got a lot of grief for saying that "The Widget is Dead," so this should be interesting: I am willing to bet it won't be long until Facebook, and other social networking "applications" join widgets in the marketer's "toolkit graveyard." Why? Because using Facebook Connect offers marketers more flexibility to develop more immersive experiences for application...
Edge Magazine (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Zynga has announced that more than 100 million unique users now play its social games monthly, “making it the largest online game destination”. The company says that it has 200 million active monthly users across all its titles, which include FarmVille , Mafia Wars and FishVille , with one million users purchasing virtual goods each month. read more
People Daily (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Zynga Inc, maker of the Mafia Wars and FarmVille games played on Facebook, may be valued at $1 billion based on the sale price of a smaller rival. Valuations for Zynga and its peers were established this month when Electronic Arts Inc bought Playfish Inc for three to four times its revenue, said Jesse Divnich, an analyst with researcher Electronic Entertainment Design & Research. Zynga may generate...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
PlayMesh became famous on the iPhone when it launched its iMafia game in January . Now it has scored big again with iFarm, currently the No. 1 free app on the iPhone. In less than 24 hours, iFarm has jumped into the top 25 ranks on the iPhone AppStore, claiming the position as the No. 1 farm game. This game is probably worth watching closely, since farming has become such a huge money maker on Facebook....
The Pink Heart Society (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
At the beginning of 2009, Pink Heart Society columnist Kate Hardy introduced us all to the Wii Fit . Well, Jenna Bayley-Burke has decided the Wii is good for other things than exercising... Procrastination is the ultimate temptation, for writers at least. My procrastination tool of choice (other than Farmville) is the Wii . We celebrate Chanukkah, which means 8 wild nights of fried food, gift giving,...
Inside Social Games (Free subscription) | yesterday
Social games saw a lot of growth this past week on Facebook, according to AppData, with Zynga continuing to lead, CrowdStar continuing to rise, and LOLapps’ white-label role-playing games hitting the big leagues. This Week’s Fastest Growing Games Name MAU Gain Gain, % 1. FishVille 15,958,135 +6,719,437 +42.11 2. FarmVille 66,841,884 +2,235,168 +3.34 3. Moment Of Truth 1,898,873 +1,527,845...
The Best Warcraft Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
News Sources wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptNov. 23 (Bloomberg) — Zynga Inc. , maker of the “Mafia Wars” and “FarmVille” games played on Facebook, may be valued at $1 billion based on the sale price of a smaller rival. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can [...]
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seemingly unfazed by a looming class-action lawsuit triggered by allegations of misleading ads, social gamer Zynga has launched FarmVille.com , its first standalone game site. Previously, players had to be fully logged in to Facebook or MySpace to play a Zynga game; the new FarmVille.com site uses Facebook Connect to get players logged in, without forcing them actually “be” on the social...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eric von Coelln / Inside Social Games: Beyond Bookmark Me! Become a Fan of This App! Is the Latest Way Games Get Facebook Users — The push by marketers to be “bookmarked” has been going on since the Favorites tab first showed up in web browsers. Bookmarks including Photos, FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Word Challenge … [...]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zynga said today it has crossed more than 100 million unique monthly users for its social games on Facebook. Thanks to the popularity of its casual Facebook games such as FarmVille, which has more than 65 million players, the San Francisco company has become the biggest developer on Facebook and the leading company in the emerging social games market. That’s a pretty good achievement for a startup...
EdCone.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zynga has created a 'Cash Cow' in FarmVille! Even viewed through a "may be valued" filter, and with a skeptical eye to the "66,841,884 monthly active users" claim on FB, the growth is pretty startling. Thnx to alert reader G...
Mashable (Free subscription) | yesterday
When developers get their hands on a social media platform, amazing things tend to happen. For example, Facebook transformed web apps when it launched the Facebook platform . The result has been everything from Facebook Connect to FarmVille . Twitter’s an even better example when you start thinking of the countless Twitter apps for mobile phones and the desktop . That magic is exactly what LinkedIn...
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