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[Review] Gamification By Design: Implementing Game Mechanics In Web And Mobile Apps

YoungUpstarts

If you’re not familiar with the term, gamification is essentially the idea of using game thinking and game mechanics to solve problems and engage audiences. In fact, gamification is already seeping into many parts of our lives – but it’s recently especially prevalent in web and mobile applications.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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Finding your One Metric That Matters

leananalyticsbook.com

There are three criteria you can use to help choose your OMTM: the business you’re in; the stage of your startup’s growth; and your audience. Companies like Flurry do a lot of work in this space, and many application developers roll their own code to suit the way their games are used. Third: who is your audience?

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Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

You can see the different applications I have developed in the Creations page. Why you might need some help Too often I see businesses throwing money on custom Facebook applications development or Facebook pages thinking that just because it is on Facebook, it will go ‘viral’.

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Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services | Aymeric Gaurat.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

You can see the different applications I have developed in the Creations page. Why you might need some help Too often I see businesses throwing money on custom Facebook applications development or Facebook pages thinking that just because it is on Facebook, it will go ‘viral’.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

For instance, LivingSocial is an application where users can make a list of their favorite things. Big brands, like Porsche, may want to get in front of their audience and have users speak about their brand in a viral, social networking space. Therefore, Porsche will pay LivingSocial for each exposure to their audience.