What do you make of Quora? We’ve all spent (a little) time on it, asked a few questions and followed a few like minded souls. Enough to get a reasonable feel for it. Personally I’m lukewarm on it.
But elsewhere, the feeling of some out there is that Quora is gold dust and than less than a year after becoming publicly available it is apparently worth more than $1bn. Really? Are you sure? Read More
After a year that saw some serious milestones tip in social media, such as Facebook reaching the 500 million member mark, you might be wondering what’s in store for 2011 trends in this lively medium.
Maz Nadjm
I met up with Maz Nadjm, Ogilvy Group UK’s now Head of Social Media, who formerly headed Sky’s online social media strategy, to pick his brains about what he thinks is in store for the new year in social media. Read More
Huge news if true and with rumours about Facebook and Zynga possibly going public this year 2011 or in 2012 it could be the year of social media IPO’s. Reuters is quoting sources saying that professional social network LinkedIn plans to go public in 2011.
The story says LinkedIn has appointed Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and JPMorgan as financial underwriters, according to multiple sources.
Social games firm Zynga, of Farmville and PetVille fame, has announced the global launch of what could be its biggest and most popular game yet — CityVille.
As the name implies, not unlike classics such as SimCity, Zynga’s new social game CityVille allow anyone to build their own city from the ground up. It will be available in beta within the next few weeks. Read More
Zynga, the maker of social networking games Petville, FarmVille and FrontierVille is now said to be valued at a whopping $5.51bn making it more valuable than games giant Electronic Arts, which is a publicly quoted company.
In the Spring the social gaming firm was valued at $4bn. Read More
Zynga, the gaming giant behind time-sucking Facebook phenomena such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and Frontierville, is building a media giant out of tiny transactions from millions of people buying seeds, sheep, tractors, weapons, skill points and other virtual goods. Read More
One of the biggest venture-capital firms of Silicon Valley today announced a $250 million fund created for social-media investments, called the sFund. Read More
Could this be the most high-profile social gaming launch in the year that social gaming became really big news – a game where players vie to become movie stars, backed by the former head of one of the most famous film studios?
The New York Times reports that the launch of FameTown is due on November 1, and that the game will be announced by Michael Eisner, who is a former chief executive of the Walt Disney Company. (Eisner’s site confirms this launch date, but at the time of writing, Fame Town’s .net URL was not working. Read More
AllFacebook.com has created this rather excellent infographic comparing Facebook and Zynga. What’s so interesting about these two is that one (Zynga) is essentially built on the other. That has changed since Zynga’s early days as it has expanded from Facebook to other platforms – including reported talks with Google. Read More
Facebook could now be worth as much as $33.7bn according to valuations based on secondary market transactions. Such a figure sees it surpass Yahoo! and Ebay shows how far a few friends have come. Read More
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