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0	Announcing DiscoveryBeat: an event on how to get your apps noticed in an age of noise VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat. DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 6, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Max Levchin: Will virtual goods bring Slide profitability next year? Slide, which started in photo-sharing, moved into Facebook widgets and then raised funding at a reported $550 million valuation last year, shifted... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 5, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Spore Islands launches on Facebook as EA tries social games expansion Rumors persist that Electronic Arts plans to buy social gaming startup PlayFish to break into the fast-growing market of Facebook games. In the... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 5, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	In midst of offers debate, Offerpal names George Garrick as CEO Offerpal Media has named George Garrick as chief executive. He replaces founder Anu Shukla, who has been in the midst of a fiery debate about the... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 4, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Offers controversy stirs reactions across social networking industry A relatively obscure part of the social networking business has come into the limelight. It’s about special ads known as “offers” that are used to... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Interview with Offerpal Media CEO Anu Shukla on the offer “scandal” We interviewed Anu Shukla, chief executive of Offerpal about her views on the advertising offers that fuel the social gaming industry, which have been... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Greylock Partners recruits LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, raises $575M fund Reid Hoffman, the founder and chairman of popular professional networking site LinkedIn, is joining venture firm Greylock Partners as an investing... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 2, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zynga To Remove All In Game Offers Last week Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said that they would take steps to remove scammy advertising offers from their social games. There have been a couple... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 8, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zynga’s FishVille Sleeps With The Fishes For Ad Violations Zynga's most recent Facebook game, FishVille, has temporarily been taken offline by Facebook for advertising violations. FishVille will remain... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 8, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	“Horrible Things” Slink Back Into Zynga Just five days ago Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said mobile subscriptions, among other scammy offers, would be removed from Zynga's popular Facebook and... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 7, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	FishVille Launches on Facebook; It’s Like Underwater FarmVille We were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille, the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the... Source: mashable.com Date: Nov 6, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues” Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said earlier this week that he intends to make sure his company's games don't include scammy offers in the future. Our full... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 6, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Facebook Cracks Down on Deceptive Ads Scammy, deceptive ads have been in the hotseat this week, as earlier MySpace and now Facebook have made commitments to track down and eradicate... Source: mashable.com Date: Nov 5, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Offerpal Tries Out A New CEO. Shukla, Queen Of Scams, Is Out. Offerpal Media, the central character in the Scamville drama, is changing CEOs. Anu Shukla is no longer the CEO of the company she cofounded. Veteran... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 4, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	MySpace Says Zero Tolerance For App Scams, Changes Terms Of Use The industry is definitely making big changes to self regulate around social gaming offer scams (complete background here, with updates). Zynga, the... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	RockYou Joins The No Scams Parade. But What’s Facebook Up To? Zynga changed their lead gen scam policy this morning (the whole Scamville background is here, see updates at bottom as well). And now RockYou is... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 2, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman now a VC Founder of business social networking site joins venture firm Greylock Partners In spite of shrinkage in the venture capital industry, one Silicon... Source: vator.tv Date: Nov 2, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games Well that didn't take long. We outlined the not-so-ethical ways that the big social gaming startups are generating revenue through lead gen scams and... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 2, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Scamville: Zynga Says 1/3 Of Revenue Comes From Lead Gen And Other Offers A big part of the debate about the lead gen scams plaguing Facebook and MySpace via social games is over how much money is being made on these... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 2, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Oct 31, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0