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Deal Radar 2008: Challenge Games
Challenge Games creates short, online games for both serious and casual gamers that are exciting and easy to play. These games are browser-based and can be played from any computer. Most of the games are multiplayer, and take only 3-10 minutes per game. They provide instant entertainment, unlike other popular games such as World of
Deal Radar 2008: Playfish
Playfish develops and publishes video games on online social networks. The company focuses on ‘social games’ that can be played together with friends and family, using the infrastructure of sites like Facebook.
Deal Radar 2008: Geni
Geni allows you to build your family tree online. It is free and easy to use and was built to create “a family tree of the world.” Users in the tree are able to email others and invite them to join their tree. Family members are able to share information and photos and build the
Deal Radar 2008: VideoEgg
VideoEgg is a web based publishing service that allows users to format and publish video content from any device onto the web. Three Yale students?Matt Sanchez, Kevin Sladek and David Lerman? started VideoEgg in 2005 to build an easier way to edit, post and share videos online. The three had won a Yale sponsored contest
Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 9)
SM: What do you think of SmugMug? It is very popular. JH: It is popular for us because we are in the valley. When you look at the grand scheme of things, they are still a relatively small company with about $10M in revenue. I think what they have done well is they said in
Would You Have Funded Zuckerberg?
So, here’s a question … if Mark Zuckerberg came to you with a powerpoint explaining his vision for Facebook, would you have funded his seed round?
A Real Blockbuster Story
By Richard Laermer, Guest Author We threw Blockbuster into the collective dustbin years ago, along with The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Contempo Casuals. The glory days of Blockbuster are long gone … long, long, long gone. Once upon a time it was actually cool to have a Blockbuster card. That Cookie Monster Blue and
Forbes Column 08: What Microsoft Should Do While Yahoo! Dithers
What do you think Microsoft should do while waiting for the Yahoo! Board to fumble? My thoughts are here: What Microsoft Should Do While Yahoo! Dithers.
