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Archive for February, 2010
Facebook To Expand Credits For Developers
In: tutorial
28 Feb 2010Facebook has announced it is expanding it Facebook Credits program launched in May, to make it easier for developers to integrate Credits into their applications.
The Facebook Developer Blog offers more details. “Today more than 500,000 applications exist on Facebook, and the virtual goods within those applications (particularly games) have become an increasingly valuable part of the user experience.”
“By providing a single, cross-application currency, our goal is to making transactions simpler for users, leading to a higher conversion rate for developers. Specifically, our early testing has shown that users paying with Facebook Credits are significantly more likely to complete a purchase than the average Facebook user.”
Facebook said the move is part of its long-term commitment to build Facebook Credits into a product that is widely adopted and easy for developers to implement. The company said it will take 30 percent of the currency spent by users.
Purchase, Investment Favor Game Devs
In: tutorial
28 Feb 2010A couple of significant shifts took place in the game developer community this week. Big Six, which deals in social games, was acquired by Hi5 Networks, and Warner Bros. bought a majority stake in Rocksteady Studios, the maker of the latest Batman game.
Unfortunately, some other important details – including the amounts of money that changed hands – weren’t disclosed. So it’s hard to say just how much these developers were in demand.
Still, the fact that both of these big moves came in a single week appears to point to a trend, and hopefully developers in many other places will benefit from it.
Then here’s one other encouraging note: both Rocksteady Studios and Big Six are young organizations, having been founded in 2004 and 2003, respectively.
Yahoo Shows Developers How to Explore Planet
In: tutorial
28 Feb 2010Yahoo has created what it calls the “GeoPlanet Explorer”, based on its geo platform API. The project utilizes Yahoo’s Geo Planet data such as:
- Placenames
- Latitude and longitude info
- Hierarchical info about places
Developers can simply go to the Yahoo Developer Network and go to the Geo section, and retrieve the API and/or the dataset for Geo Planet. The Geo Planet explorer was created to show more ways to use the data.
Source code for the project is available here.
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