DISQUS

What games are generating a lot of revenue for SGN? Zynga has poker, Playfish has a number of top games on Facebook. What does SGN have? Nothing on FB and it is not clear that any of their iphone games generate material revenue (and I'm talking material for a company that has $15M+ invested in it)...

I live in the Valley and know that Facebook friends don't mean much...people add each other as friends all the time and the tech industry isn't that big. Just because two people know each other, it doesn't mean that they're colluding on stories. Steve, since you are such a sleuth, what % of people that Arrington and Cashmore write stories about aren't friends with the two of them?

Second, the compete numbers seem to support their claims: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/www.circleofmo.... 563K uniques in November and 20 page views per user. Those numbers are impressive.

My theory is that Inquisitr published this story for two reasons. First, Duncan Riley, owner of Inquisitr, is still upset that he has fallen out of Arrington's good graces and takes any opportunity he can to last out at him. Second, the Inquisitr realizes that the only page views (read revenue) that they can generate are off of tabloids or gossip. Rather than practice journalism or publish well-researched findings, they choose to reblog some loser named Drama 2.0.

The scariest thing about blogs is that they give idiots like Steve Hobson a voice and spread misinformation around the Internet.

"doesn’t sound like too bad of a deal for Social.IM" - Please elaborate. My guess is that iSkoot probably allowed Social.IM's investors to recoup their money, if that. It seems like the "acquisition" is on par with Chirp's exit. Not very impressive, if you ask me.

Do you know the terms of the deal? Was this orchestrated by Chirp's investors to try and recoup some of the money?

Hi -
Did you select the two winners yet? I want to know whether or not to submit a question.

Thanks,
Eli