Social network hi5 is unveiling a program today that it hopes will snare more social game developers who will make exclusive games for its 50 million users.
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Social network hi5 launches program to court game developers
Startup Get Satisfaction made a name for itself by moving customer service away from company web sites and onto pages that are created by customers themselves. Now the San Francisco company is expanding its approach beyond the Get Satisfaction site — to Facebook. Many companies already have Facebook Fan Pages where they can interact with their customers, but Get Satisfaction has partnered with a company called Involver to turn these pages into what it calls Social Engagement Hubs
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Get Satisfaction brings more satisfaction to Facebook Fan Pages
In a coup for a German online game company, Bigpoint is announcing today that it will make a Battlestar Galactica online game for the SyFy Channel . The deal is part of an ambitious expansion by Bigpoint into the U.S. market.
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Germany’s Bigpoint lines up Battlestar Galactica online game
I have tons of loyalty cards in my wallet and am always forgetting about them or leaving them at home and collecting yet another punch card when I return to the same retailer. While this is annoying for me, it’s costly for businesses, especially small ones
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Cardagin to digitize loyalty cards for local businesses
During this half day conference (Friday March 19, 2010 8:00am – 1:30pm), leading industry experts will discuss a fundamentally new approach to funding concepts, prototypes and finished products. See first hand the innovative funding solutions that developers, content creators, and entrepreneurs can use.
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Peer Financing for Developers conference (VB discount included)
With the release of the PSP Go and the DSi , both Sony and Nintendo brought small, downloadable games to traditional gaming handhelds.
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Pocket-sized downloads: Ars explores DSiWare and PSP Minis
Filed under: Gaming , Freeware , Internet , Apple , iPhone , sxsw Happy March! The super hip and trendy South-by-Southwest music and tech festival is coming up this month, and like many tech conventions these days, AT&T is working on a plan to keep their network up and running as thousands of iPhones descend on Austin, Texas to send around voice, texts, and data. GigaOM has a little insight into how they’re planning to do it this year, and if you’re interested in the nuts-and-bolts of keeping a cell phone network up and running (or at least trying to — this is AT&T, after all), it’s worth a read. They’re beefing up the cell towers in the city’s vicinity, setting up a whole new system around the convention center itself, and putting money into the backend as well, to try and increase bandwidth coming into the region.
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AT&T plans for SXSW 2010
Sony confirmed today that it has had an outage for its PlayStation Network that affects gamers with older PlayStation 3s. The Japanese company apologized to users and said the network went down over the weekend because of a bug with the system’s clock. It does not affect those who have the newer PS 3 Slim models that launched last August
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Sony confirms PlayStation Network problems for older PS 3s; says don’t use older PS 3 until bug is fixed
