Comments on: Social Gaming Network acquires Facebook apps to bolster team, traffic

By: Facebook Apps, Another Perspective « On Shayan’s Mind

Facebook Apps, Another Perspective « On Shayan’s Mind — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:16:10 +0000

[...] Social gaming seems to be the only truly new activity category when it comes to successful applications. It was basically ignored by (or unknown to) social networks until Scrabulous and Friends for Sale came into the picture on Facebook. This category now is rightly so getting plenty of attention from the venture community and entrepreneurs. [...]

By: SGN, on quest for social gaming revenue, raises $15 million » VentureBeat

SGN, on quest for social gaming revenue, raises $15 million » VentureBeat — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:40:42 +0000

[...] In total, SGN-owned games have been installed a total of more than 51.5 million times, representing a total of nearly 40 million unique Facebook users, according to chief executive Shervin Pishevar. In this sense, it is larger than Zynga, which has 43.3 million total installs. On the other hand, SGN today has more than 800,000 daily active users on Facebook, according Adonomics, down around 200,000 daily active users from a month ago. Then, before it incorporated Esqut, it had more than one million. [...]

By: Creators of Facebook app Friends For Sale raise round, not for sale » VentureBeat

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:14:58 +0000

[...] San Francisco-based company is not for sale, even though other social game developers have recently been consolidating under market leaders Zynga and SGN. It has just raised $4 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners. [...]