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Inside Network Cocktail Party in Seattle – Join Us This Wednesday Posted: 17 Jul 2011 12:00 PM PDT Headed to Seattle for Casual Connect, Flash Gaming Summit, or IGDA Summit next week? Join Inside Network and our community of social and mobile developers at The W Hotel for post-event cocktails and some great networking. AJ Glasser, lead writer for Inside Social Games, will moderate a daytime panel conversation on top companies’ transition from casual to social. Later, join Inside Network and our friends and party sponsors at Rightscale, Amazon Web Services, and Couchbase for an evening of networking and drinks in downtown Seattle. All are welcome, and drinks are on us with your RSVP. Happy hour starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Living Room and Bar, W Seattle. We’ll be right by Benaroya Hall, so stop by after Casual Connect’s panels and talks and say hello! Inside Network Cocktails in Seattle Wednesday July 20, 2011 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Living Room and Bar, W Seattle 1112 Fourth Avenue Seattle, WA Please RSVP here If you will be at the conference, don’t miss AJ Glasser moderating “Casual Games Rule Cross-Platform,” July 20 at 10:30 am. See you there! Thanks to Our Sponsors: Rightscale provides cloud computing management for social application and game developers. Couchbase products, which are built on Apache CouchDB, Membase, and Memcached open source software, represent a comprehensive family of database solutions for building scalable web and mobile applications. Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides businesses with a secure, reliable, easy-to scale, low-cost computing platform “in the cloud.”

This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:32 AM PDT Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, July 11th, 2011 Monday Mobile Roundup: Mobile Job Growth, Smartphone Tech, Tablet Declines & More Emerging Paid iOS Apps: New iPhone Apps Slow While HD Versions Rise Andreessen Horowitz-Backed TinyCo’s Co-Founder Spivey Leaves Outblaze’s Six-Month Foray Into Mobile Games Pays Off With 21M Downloads for Pretty Pet Salon & Other Apps Katango Could Solve Facebook Friend List Creation Problems, But For Now It’s Just Group Messaging Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 Russia’s Kama Games Acquires IP Behind Mall Party, City Friends and Epic Gladiator Team Behind Postagram Launches PopBooth, a Photobooth-Like Experience on iOS Emerging Top-Grossing iOS Apps: Past Top Paid & Top Free Apps Rise New “Facebook for Every Phone” App Brings Photo Uploading and More to 2500 Different Feature Phones Tapjoy Hires New CFO as It Hints at IPO Prospects EA Buys PopCap Games in Deal Worth Up to $1.3 Billion Mopub on Its $6.5 Million Round From Accel Partners Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 Android Market Makes Its New Grossing, Trending Charts Available on Devices New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Glu Mobile, Pontiflex, TinyCo, Kabam and More Pocket Gems Passes 40M Downloads After Pair of Hits Tap Zoo, Tap Pet Hotel Emerging Top Free Apps on iOS: Songify, Happy Theme Park Rise Up In a Boon For Enterprise Apps, Apple Introduces Bulk App Purchases For Businesses Thursday, July 14th, 2011 New Hires in Mobile: EA Mobile, Gameloft, Z2Live & More Evil Dead for iOS Looks Good, but Struggles to Match Franchise’s History iPad2, Verizon iPhone Help Apple Eat Into Android’s Share Among Developers Building New Apps Google CEO Larry Page Says There ARe 550,000 Android Device Activations A Day Android Apps Surpassed 6 Billion Cumulative Downloads Second Quarter Android and iOS’s Total App Downloads Per Month May Be Near Parity Friday, July 15th, 2011 Bravo Launches Xtreme Wheels on iOS Applifier Announces Mobile Cross-Promotion Platform for iOS, Android CrowdStar, Incubator YouWeb Get on The Mobile Fund Bandwagon With $10 Million StarFund Inside Social Games Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, July 11th, 2011 Empires & Allies Battles Global Warfare on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU My Country Lets Players Build Nations, Game Builds Impressive User Base Perfect Getaway Sets Sail on Facebook With Service Industry Sim Pet Tales Makes Caring for PUppies and Kittens a Walk in the Park on Facebook Social Point’s Flying Dog Gets by on Bare Bones Gameplay Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 Trip Hawkins Talks Feudal System, Forging a “Republic of Gaming” Through Browsers EA Buys PopCap Games in Deal Worth Up to $1.3 Billion Martial Arts Masters Challenges Players to Take on the World and Risk Experience Points Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 Animal Party Gaining Ground on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by DAU Investors on Where the Smart Money Will Go in Social Games New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Kabam, A Bit Lucky, Pontiflex and More Inside Network Cocktail Party — Join Us Next Week in Seattle Camelot: The Game Mixes Swords and Strategy, Strong Despite Show’s Renewal Prospects Thursday, July 14th, 2011 New Hires in Social Gaming: Arkadium, CrowdStar, GameHouse, & More Bejeweled Clone Biotronic sees a Resurgence of Players as Developer Moves onto Mobile Friday, July 15th, 2011 Arabic Farming Sim and Pet Games Top This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games Dreamland Conjures a Unique Board Game Adventure Applifier Announces Mobile Cross-Promotion Platform for iOS, Android Social Gaming Roundup: Acquisitions, Game Updates, Zynga Japan, & More Inside Facebook Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers. Monday, July 11th, 2011 60 Photos, Page Tabs, Videos, Mobile, Zoosk and More on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by MAU Featured Facebook Campaigns: New Jersey Lottery, Tretorn, Toys “R” US & Craftsman Tools Facebook Launching Corporate-Local Parent-Child Places Structure for Businesses With Multiple Locations Hulu Relaunches Facebook Integration. Can a Free Month of Hulu Plus Offset Privacy Issues? Katango Could Solve Facebook Friend List Creation Problems, but for Now It’s Just Group Messaging Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Buddy Media, Efficient Frontier, Wildfire and More Report: Percentage of Companies Recruiting on Facebook Stagnates, Growing Just 0.7% This Year New “Facebook for Every Phone” App Brings Photo Uploading and More to 2500 Different Feature Phones Facebook Testing Location-Based Check-In Deals API for Businesses With Many Locations Facebook Scraps Little-Used App Directory, Simplifies App Submission to Search Index Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 Yahoo, Photos, Mobile, Quizzes, Yelp and More on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by DAU New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Context Optional, W3i, Kabam, Glu Mobile and More Facebook Asking Users to Reengage With Groups, Possibly to Box Out Google+ Inside Network Cocktail Party — Join Us Next Week in Seattle Facebook’s Study of Journalist Page Engagement Reveals Page Post Best Practices Thursday, July 14th, 2011 Facebook Careers Postings: Sales, Dublin, Data Center and More Facebook Hires and Departures: Stocky, Feinberg, Engineering, Africa, Asia and More Spotify Launches in the US With Facebook Connect but No Deeper Integration Yet How to Sync Your Facebook Page Updates With Twitter — and Why You Shouldn’t Friday, July 15th, 2011 MySpace, Facebook Live, Change.org, Hulu and More on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps by MAU Report: Facebook Working With News Publications to Offer App-Based “Facebook Editions” Facebook Roundup: China, Paul Adams, Video Calling, Badgeville, Don Dodge, and More

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