Social Apps vs. Social Games

By Guest Author Saad Fazil After reviewing social gaming companies, I move on to RockYou and LivingSocial — two very successful companies in the social applications space — to find out more about the similarities and differences between social games and apps.

Deal Radar 2009: Outspark

Deal Radar returns to social gaming with Outspark, a casual games publisher that has developed a virtual playground where online gaming and portals merge to create a new market called 3P, in which a company must be a games Publisher, operate a Portal and own and operate a Platform. Outspark.com is a “freemium” games portal combining

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Deal Radar 2009: Social Gaming Network

Deal Radar continues to present bootstrapped companies in the growing online gaming segment. Founded in 2007 Social Gaming Network (SGN) offers gaming applications exclusively for social networks. The company was spun off from Webs (formerly known as Freewebs) by founder Shervin Pishevar, who was also the founding president and COO of Webs. The idea for SGN

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Deal Radar 2008: Turbine

Turbine is the largest privately held gaming studio in North America. They have created several popular and massively multiplayer game worlds on the Internet such as The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar, Asheron’s Call, and Dungeons and Dragons: Stormreach. The company has a top-of-the-line technology platform and innovative graphics and has created an active niche in the

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