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The Great Debate Over The Exchange Economy
Posted in: Blog, Offers, Social Media, Virtual Currency on November 3, 2009 | 3 Comments
The BigDoor team has been watching with great interest the massive debate that Michael Arrington kicked off last week when he publicly blasted some of the practices of the large offer platforms. He then followed that ambush up with a scathing report in TechCrunch.
All we can say is, well done Michael!
Well, maybe that’s not all we can say. A few more thoughts on the subject.
Our founders have more battle scars than we ever cared to earn from public debates of this nature, and as a result we’d like to think that we’ve learned a few lessons along the way. Here’s a few pointers we’d like to offer for no charge at all (virtual or otherwise) to the players in this debate:
Zynga’s Stellar Growth & Vision for the Future
Posted in: Blog, Gaming, Social Media, Virtual Currency on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
Today Eric Eldon from VentureBeat posted a presentation given by Zynga’s CEO Mark Pincus at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Fran.
We’ve all known that Zynga is on a rocket ship, but it is cool to see their growth mapped on a chart. Fueled by well integrated virtual currency and offer platforms, their growth is nothing short of phenomenal.
What virtual currency, quality games and Facebook have done for Zynga.
View the full Zynga presentation here.