Former Yahoo executive takes CEO job at Bunchball
In the past few years, Bunchball has figured out how to get consumers more engaged in web sites by making them as addictive as video games. Now it has recruited a former Yahoo executive to move on its game plan.
Peter Daboll, former chief of insights… Continue Reading
Bunchball learns from games on Facebook, creates its own for shows like The Office
Bunchball masquerades as a network of casual game widgets that you play within a social network like Facebook — not unlike competitors Zynga and the Social Gaming Network. But it’s really doing much more. It collects data about your behavior when you play, and uses… Continue Reading
Gaia Online on Bebo, and other apps that span sites and work great
Social networks like Facebook and Bebo currently limit users and third-party developers from fully exporting most user data to other sites. However, there are a number of applications that are using these company’s social networking platforms to share data across sites, grow and even make… Continue Reading
Bunchball raises $2M for interactive “flash” games
Bunchball, a Redwood City start-up that lets people create Flash-based interactive games for multiple players, and then insert them in blogs and other Web sites, has raised around $2 million in in a first round of funding.
Backers included Adobe Systems, which makes the Flash technology… Continue Reading