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Widgets, facebook, jeff bezos, jim greer, kongregate, rockyou, slide

Bezos-backed Kongregate moves to Facebook platform

Kongregate, a sort of YouTube for Flash games backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as well as Greylock Partners, will adapt some of its 4,500 games to Facebook's platform this week, Kongregate CEO Jim Greer told Inside Social Games. Kongregate makes money, or tries to, through advertising it shares with third-party game developers. Facebook doesn't need more gimmicky games, but with other widgetmakers like RockYou and Slide asking for (and getting) nine-figure valuations, don't expect the deluge to let up any time soon.

8:40 AM on Mon May 19 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Mr. E. at 09:03 AM on 05/19/08
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Instead of adapting them to Facebook they should adapt them to cell phones where they can actually charge real money for them.
sample032 at 09:48 AM on 05/19/08
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@Mr. E.: How are they going to charge this money, again? And how many cell phones have flash installed, let alone a CPU fast enough for a flash game?
Mr. E. at 10:14 AM on 05/19/08
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@sample032: To me adapting means porting from flash to cell phones. As for charging, that is done through the carriers. EA Mobile is a good example of what I'm talking about: [www.eamobile.com]
haggie at 11:21 AM on 05/19/08
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I'd rather be selling dog food online than banking on a nine-digit liquidity event for my widget company...
Norcross at 11:25 AM on 05/19/08
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It still blows my mind that my old business textbooks spoke about companies making "widgets". And now....they are.
Joseph at 12:41 PM on 05/19/08
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"RockYou and Slide asking for (and getting) nine-figure valuations"

This blows my mind.
Benoit at 12:44 PM on 05/19/08
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I kick ur ass lol

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Fidel on the Roof at 06:53 PM on 05/19/08
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They must have done a few lines...