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5 Apps to Make You Smile

These are a few of my favorite digital things… This list is hardly comprehensive, nor is it in any particular order. Enjoy! 1. Timehop - This gets top billing because too few people know about it (and more should – it’s neat). Basically, Timehop answers one question, every day, via email. “What did you do one [...]

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OMGPOP Launches Cupcake Corner on Facebook – A Frisky Hands-On

While OMGPOP may be best known for its own casual gaming / social interaction website of the same name, they also develop Facebook games of their own, with their latest release coming in the form of Cupcake Corner. The game can be most easily described as a combination of Cafe World and Restaurant City. You’ll [...]

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OMGPOP Incorporates Virtual Currency into Remake of Missile Command

Social game portal OMGPOP has released their own version of Missile Command, the Atari title from the 1980′s. While the gameplay is essentially the same – users control a stationary, rotating turret and attempt to shoot enemy missiles as they fall towards them in the sky – OMGPOP has monetized the system by allowing players [...]

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WildTangent’s BrandBoost Ad Platform Will Change Advertising in Social Games

Yesterday, WildTangent announced the launch of the BrandBoost ad platform, which will give game developers an additional revenue option aside from the sale of virtual upgrades and in-game goods (microtransactions in the case of social games like FarmVille or Mafia Wars) or paid monthly subscriptions (MMOs). According to Games Beat, BrandBoost runs quite simply. Instead [...]

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Sync Your Facebook Account with OMGPOP, Earn Free Coins

More and more websites have begun to implement Facebook Connect as an easy way for new users to post content without having to sign up for a separate account. It’s an intuitive system that combines all of a person’s activities under one account, and is one that, according to Inside Social Games, can now be [...]

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