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Re: Watercooler Facebook apps hope for home run during World Series

Kevin Chou — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:07:18 -0000

The comparable size of Citizen Sports and Fantasy Moguls apps (Phillies and Rays in particular) are an order of magnitude smaller than Watercooler

Re: Moving beyond social networks, Watercooler launches TVloop.com

Kevin Chou — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:58:05 -0000

Wonderfully thoughtful, as always. I especially liked the analysis of the advertising targeting ability.

Re: Facebook announces fbFund app winners

Kevin Chou — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:01:42 -0000

Interesting that Mousehunt, already profitable and clearly able to grow on it's own, won. By the way, the link to Weddingbook is broken.

Re: Facebook’s platform: Rebuilding the plane in midflight

Kevin Chou — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:14:41 -0000

Smart piece, one of the most insightful analysis anywhere.

Re: Quick link: List of $350MM of VC investments in social gaming, virtual worlds, casual MMOs, etc

Kevin Chou — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:16:31 -0000

While we don’t necessarily think of ourselves as a gaming company, it’s nice to be included! Nice research.

I would also add to your list Outspark, who raised $11MM from DCM and Tencent in Jan ‘08.

Re: TVLoop.com Connects Passionate TV Fans

Kevin Chou — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:44:44 -0000

Arnold, nice writeup. The site TVLoop.com is DEFINITELY open to all countries and geographies. All of the blogs, discussions, games, profiles, recruiting, widgets, photos, quizzes, Youtube videos, and myriad other content is available for any fan anywhere to consume. In fact, a minority but good portion of our 16 million users are outside the US today.

The only features that are not available yet are video streaming. These are provided by our partners Hulu and ABC (and soon other partners). We depend on the rights holders to enable worldwide viewing. We're not there yet, but we're working with our partners to enable video watching everywhere.

Kevin

Re: 2008/12/09/tvloop/

Kevin Chou — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:15:30 -0000

Chris - TVLoop.com is not a video watching site, it's a community orientated site. We didn't add video until 2 months ago, and by then already had over 10 million users actively discussing, blogging, and playing games around television entertainment.

Re: HOW TO SUCCEED IN THE COMING SOCIAL GAMING EXPLOSION

Kevin Chou — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:20:54 -0000

Wonderful analysis. I thought your point about publishers versus developers was interesting in that on the social networks, it seems that the two seem very intertwined while on the broader web there's certainly a more clear separation.

I believe Zynga and SGN both tried to go down the distributor route early on, but both seem to have refocused on playing both developer and publisher. Any thoughts about why there hasn't been a major publisher-focused company on the social nets?