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Goama lets developers integrate a social gaming platform into their apps

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Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. Some of Goama’s clients have used it for promotional campaigns, while others rely on the platform, which introduces new games every week, to add a full-fledged gaming function to their app.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Current round: $4.7mm extension to Series A ($4.7mm+previous $1.85mm=$6.55mm) Total raised: $6.55mm.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

Buddy Media was an amazing exit, but I never really thought of it like “enterprise software” I thought about it more like an agency that had developed off the shelf social tools around its service solutions. When I looked at the site, it had the term “Social Enterprise Software” written all over it.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future). On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products. I especially like Jelli , which is user power radio. Zazzle] and c) artisan products [etsy, foodzie].

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

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The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

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.” The full list of partners right now includes Dire Wolf Digital, Nomad Games, Auroch Digital, Restoration Games, Steve Jackson Games, Knights of Unity, Skyship Studios, EncounterPlus, PlannarAlly and Sugar Gamers, as well as individual creators and developers. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard.