Our tech team pulled off another cool port, they can port iPhone applications to any social network. You can play the game inside the social network and drive traffic back to your iPhone application. Check out our Attack of the Zombie Politicians inside Facebook or you can visit our Youtube page to see screen captures of our games.
Check it out at http://www.211me.com/apps/zombie/default.aspx
Like the Olympics, 211(me) selected 08.08.08 to launch something big. It’s the Pay My Rent! Comedy Contest! Presented alongside Showcase Live and WBCN, we’re looking for the funniest comedians in the land to enter to win a chance to open up for Dave Attell when he performs at the brand new Showcase Live at Patriot Place in Foxboro, MA on Saturday, August 23rd. Not only will the grand prize winner get this great opportunity - we’ll event pay them for it - $1500 to help with this month’s rent.
Know a great comedian, or are you one yourself? Enter now at 211me.com/comedy. Entries are accepted through August 11th. Voting begins on August 12th and runs through August 19th.
The grand prize winner will be chosen by popular vote. The text to vote format allows anyone to text in the comedy vote code provided on the site for their favorite comedian into 555211 to vote. Additionally, comedians can campaign for more votes by placing a widget provided to them by 211me on their website, Facebook, Myspace, blog, or wherever they may be on the web. From the widget, a vote can be placed by placing in the voters mobile phone and email directly into the widget and hitting vote.
Looking for a few good laughs? Check out the site now and see who is the funniest in the land! 211me.com/comedy
R2D2 and Roy Batty, both created as androids but with wildly divergent results. One a trusted side-kick, with all the answers. The other the intelligent psycho android played by Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, who kills his maker. Which one will Google’s Android be?After speaking with some folks, lets clear up some confusion, the G-Phone is not a phone like iPhone, but rather an operating system. Google at this point will not be making the phone, they are partnering with manufacturers to use their operating system. It appears that Google has and continues to benefit from this confusion which it helped create.
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer called the Android platform “a mere press release,” which is correct. Understanding the impact on the mobile industry, be it a benevolent “open” platform that helps the consumer or not, is not possible at this point.
Only time will tell. But the new $10 million Android developer competition should help Google’s cause.
Quick Links:
I am Widget, you’re Widget.
It’s all about the widget these days. Everyone using Facebook knows what they are and how they are transforming small companies into overnight success, but if you try explaining it to your grandmother or your boss, forget it.
The article The Facebook Economy in latest issue of Business 2.0 does a pretty good job of detailing the players(Slide, Rockyou, SocialMedia, etc.), the revenue model and the landscape for widgets. Point anyone looking for a deeper explanation of why they are important to this article and the The Next Small Thing in BusinessWeek.
If you are looking for a good quick answer to the widget question, I fumbled on one the other day; “Facebook is like Microsoft, they are the operating system that sits on the computer, and third party companies create the software that runs on top of it.” That comparison seemed to do it, until the person said “What the hell is an operating system?”
Would you trust this guy with your widget?
You better. He is Facebook’s Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager in charge of keeping track of the 2,500+ widgets in Facebook.
Quick Links:
Facebook Developer Site, Everything you need to build a Facebook Applicaiton
The Facebook Economy, Business 2.0
