This Week in Social Media - Chris Saad, VP of Strategy at Echo

This week we have Chris Saad, VP of Strategy at Echo. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Sean Percival and Judalina Neira host This Week in Social Media and Mike Bracco reports on the latest news. Follow This Week in Social Media on Twitter: twitter.com Follow ThisWeekIn Network on Twitter: twitter.com Connect with the Hosts on Twitter: Sean Percival - twitter.com Judalina Neira - twitter.com Mike Bracco - twitter.com - - - Pic Click, a visual search engine. Looking for more sponsors, contact mo@thisweekin.com TOPICS: .CO Domains released this week. Did you buy yours? Relavent? Flipboard is a social media aggregator for iPad that formats to a person magazine. Watch the video INTERVIEW: Chris Saad, VP of Strategy at Echo NEWS Story 1 -Did Facebook founder give up his ownership stake A contract that Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg allegedly signed seven years ago may cost him his ownership stake in the company. The contract granted a New York businessman the outlines a 50% ownership stake back when Facebook. The claim was that he hired Zuckerberg back in 2003 for two separate ventures - one of which was Facebook. Story 2 -Raptr Leaves Beta, Makes It Easier To See Which Games Your Friends Are Playing Social networking for gaming service allows you to track what games your friends are playing and share your gaming play and achievements on social networks. Story 3 - MySpace and MTV Will Livestream Comic-Con Celebrities Comic ...

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- Social Media - This Week in Social Media Presents "Beyond Play: Gaming in the Connected Age"

This Week in Social Media is proud to present Robert Tercek's speech from the Casual Connect Conference, entitled "Beyond Play: Gaming in the Connected Age." As innovation, adaptability, and creativity become increasingly important, applied game theory moves beyond entertainment to open a huge market that will reward companies that are willing to engage an active audience. Robert shares his insights into the startling evolution of gamification. TIMECODES 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Topic for the day: Games Everywhere, and why Robert is a skeptic 02:28 Jeopardy Online; taking traditional games online and why some take off, some don't 04:30 How games reflect our times 06:09 The most popular game in the world: CityVille 8:49 Where's the game in CityVille? Giving gifts! 9:39 Zynga's 'spamming model' 10:40 Social obligation and social gaming 12:00 Zynga's symbiotic, but captive, relationship with Facebook 12:49 Gamification sucks! What are we talking about when we talk about gamification. 15:20 Gamification is the datamining business 15:44 Jane McGonigal's Vision 17:00 Idealists vs. Realists 18:58 Pointification of Life and BF Skinner 21:30 Foursquare+Groupon+Zynga= Giant Habitrail 23:00 TaskRabbit 23:50 An appeal to game developers to do better 24:10 Convergent technology 25:10 Apple has enough cash to buy all the other mobile companies 26:30 The collapsing cycle of innovation 29:00 Augmented reality 32:30 The "One Ring" of social gaming= NFC 34:50 60% of what is purchased on ...

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