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CrowdStar’s Happy Aquarium & Happy Pets

16 November 2009

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Big congratulations to the CrowdStar team on the successfully launch of Happy Pets, yet another great social game on Facebook.  In just a week Happy Pets went from 0 to 890,000 Monthly active users. Amazing.  Following Happy Aquarium’s tremendous success not long ago, this is just shows that it wasn’t a one off only. Keep a close eye on [...]

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Upcoming speaking engagements

12 October 2009

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Innovation Day 2009 Berlin Oct 29 I’m going to be a Panelist at Deutsche Telekom’s Innovation Day 2009 in Berlin on Oct 29, together with Julie Meyer (Adriane Capital)  Aza Raskin (Mozilla) Norbert Bolz,  and Christopher Schläffer (Head of Innovation & Products, Deutsche Telekom. The panel will be moderated by Bruno Giussani, Director of TED Conferences [...]

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Profiled in Swedish Metro

6 August 2009

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I was recently interviewed by Metro about life after Facebook.  As usual there are some mistakes in the article and some quotes are taken out of context, but otherwise pretty okay.

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OpenFeint vs. Plus+ vs. Crystal

31 July 2009

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In the battle heating up over social gaming platforms Pockergamer has a great write up and comparison. After laying out all the other competitors it decides to take a deep dive with OpenFeint and Ngmoco’s Plus+. Needless to say, OpenFeint wins big time over Plus+ in three out of four critical categories! Disclaimer: I’m an [...]

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Minigore – Now live with OpenFeint

31 July 2009

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The anticipation has been great for Chillingo’s Minigore and it is now here. Minigore is a survival shooter game with two great on-screen joysticks. I am pretty sure this game will end up if not as number one in  iTunes app store – so as one of the top games. The most interesting part is [...]

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Screenjelly on CNN

9 July 2009

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Embedded video from CNN Video Wow, Screenjellyis on a roll. Thanks to the fabulous Chris Pirillo.

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OpenFeint Is On A Roll

6 July 2009

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OpenFeint is really on a roll. The developers keep on signing up, new cool games are being launched and the interest from bigger game publishers & developers is huge. Here’s a couple of links to recent coverage about OpenFeint: AuroraFeint to roll out OpenFeint 2.0 a gaming platform for the iPhone How OpenFeint plans to become to [...]

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Tencent Mind 2009

24 June 2009

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Qzone’s General Manager Peter Zhen and I shake hands after the social networking panel at the Tencent MInd 2009 Forum in Guangzhou. My friend and moderator Gang Lu on the right. Some videos posted afterwards:  My short talk (what’s up with my accent?) Interview with QQ Finance  Had a great time in Guangzhou and really appreciate the invitation from [...]

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Joined Aurora Feint Advisory Board

12 June 2009

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I am very excited to announce that I recently joined AuroraFeint’s Advisory Board. Aurora Feint is the company behind the tremendously popular Massive Multiplayer iPhone game, Aurora Feint and more importantly, behind OpenFeint the Social Gaming Platform for the iPhone that recently announced OpenFeint 2.0 in connection with the WWDC covered by Techcrunch. I’m very [...]

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Interviewed in Asian Venture Capital Journal

6 May 2009

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I was recently interviewed by Rebbecca Fanning for Asian Venture Capital Journal about VC’s facing global challenges. The cover story describes how VC’s are spending more time (than money) huddling in conference rooms with CEO’s and entrepreneurs, revising business plans, bugets and strategies. Some interesting data points: Asian fund-raising peaked in 2008, with a jump of [...]

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