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Join Us for SF TechCrunch 5th Birthday Meetup This Friday

Posted June 10th, 2010 by MikeQ

techcrunch_meetupHappy 5th birthday, TechCrunch! This Friday, Social Gold is co-hosting the San Francisco TechCrunch 5th birthday celebration along with Twilio here at 501 Folsom Street. We’ll have food drinks, games like TechCrunch Jeopardy, Powerpoint Karaoke & Halfbaked, and a conference call with other TechCrunch meetups from around the US.

This event is one of over 300 meetups taking place around the world in celebration of TechCrunch’s 5th anniversary, and we anticipate the San Francisco event will be one of the largest. Thanks to Rob Ross, who stepped up as the SF event organizer and reached out to us to provide a place to party. We can’t wait to have all of you in our office!

RSVP for the event here

Special thanks go to the our sponsors for stepping up to help us make the event a success and supporting the community:

Social Gold

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Social Gold™ is an industry-leading virtual goods monetization platform owned and operated by Jambool, Inc. The Social Gold platform enables developers to create and manage their own white-labeled virtual currency, provide an unparalleled payments experience to their users, and optimize their virtual economy using robust analytics. Through an innovative in-Flash payments solution and direct integrations with the most relevant payment methods in global markets, the Social Gold platform streamlines the purchasing experience and drives conversion. Jambool, Inc. was co-founded by Amazon.com veterans Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussein and has offices in San Francisco, Seattle and Singapore. For more information, please visit http://getsocialgold.com.

Twilio

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Twilio is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services and telecommunications. Twilio hosts a telephony infrastructure web service in the cloud, allowing web programmers to integrate phone calls and SMS messages into their applications. Twilio’s simple, powerful API minimizes the learning curve required to build advanced, reliable communications applications, and its Pay-As-You-Go pricing model means customers pay for capacity only when they need it, not before. The company is funded by Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund, Mitch Kapor and other prominent investors, and has offices in San Francisco, CA. http://www.twilio.com/

IMVU

imvuIMVU Inc. (www.imvu.com) is an online community where members use 3D avatars to meet new people, chat, create and play with their friends. IMVU has reached 50 million registered users, 10 million unique visitors per month and a $40 million annualized revenue run rate. IMVU has the world’s largest virtual goods catalog of more than 4 million items, almost all of which are created by its own members. Founded in 2004, IMVU is backed by venture investors Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital, Bridgescale Partners and Best Buy Capital and is located in Palo Alto, CA. The company was awarded a Best Places To Work 2010 by the San Francisco Business Journal and was named an OnHollywood Top 100 company in 2009.

Mashery

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Mashery is designed to make it cheaper and easier for companies to build and control channels for web services than it would be to do everything in-house. Mashery offers all the ingredients needed to get APIs widely distributed and successfully used – an API marketplace, tracking, metrics, usage/access management, commerce, security and performance tools. http://www.mashery.com/

Charles River Ventures

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Founded in 1970, Charles River Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that takes a value-added, hands-on approach to support its portfolio companies. Portfolio companies include Blippy, Yammer, Zendesk, Twitter, Scribd, and many more. http://www.crv.com/

TriplePoint

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TriplePoint is the leading agency serving the interactive entertainment and digital lifestyle industries. Founded in 2002 as Kohnke Communications by Erica Kohnke Kain, the agency has grown to be the market leader in public relations, marketing, business development, and product consulting within the games and digital media market. http://www.triplepointpr.com/

Battery Ventures

BatteryVentures LogoBattery Ventures invests in technology-driven companies run by exceptional individuals and management teams.  For more than 25 years, we have partnered with great entrepreneurs across stages, sectors, and geographies.  Our mission is to support these entrepreneurs as they build extraordinary companies. Portfolio companies include GroupOn, TrialPay, LiveIntent, and Omniture. http://www.battery.com/

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Multi-participant desktop video…on top of Skype. http://vivu.tv/

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Badges, greetings and more – all for your next event or meeting. http://imhello.posterous.com/

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New: Streamlined Sandbox environment for Social Gold APIs

Posted February 12th, 2010 by Krishnan

With the help of your feedback, we have improved our Sandbox environment to make it more streamlined and seamless to integrate with.

Below we have articulated steps to take for those who are currently using our deprecated Sandbox environment to transition over to the new Sandbox environment.

Note: If you are already using our platform, your production settings and configurations are NOT affected by this change. You do NOT need to change anything on your production settings.

1. The sandbox secret key is going away. Your API calls to sandbox will fail with a bad signature error if you keep using the sandbox secret key. There is now only one secret key that you should use in sandbox and production. You can find it the left sidebar once you log in to your account at (http://www.jambool.com).

2. Remember to use api.sandbox.jambool.com as the URL when testing your application. (You should be doing this already.) Once you are ready to move over to production make sure that you change the URL from api.sandbox.jambool.com to api.jambool.com

3. You can continue to use your existing Offer IDs from sandbox. In the future, however, there is no distinction between an offer on sandbox or production. This simplifies the migration of your app from sandbox to production.

Thank you for your patience, and please email developers@jambool.com with your questions and feedback.

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Skinnable UI: Extend Your Brand And User Engagement

Posted October 23rd, 2009 by Vikas

We are excited to announce a new, self-serve feature that allows developers to create a customized look and feel for their in-game payments experience. Think of it as a way of creating customized skins on the fly that match and blend with the colors of your game. This, in turn, helps to extend your brand and to increase user engagement and conversion rate.

So, how does it work? Simple. All you do is share the hex code of your game’s primary highlight color, and we do the rest. We generate a color palette and gradient that matches and blends with your game’s look and feel, and you are ready to go.

Here is how you instantly customize the payments flow for your in-game payment.

Log into your Social Gold account to configure your in-game payments offer.

Edit your Account Settings

Edit your Account Settings

Choose the integration (offer) you want to edit (or create a new one). Next, go down to the advanced settings. Go to the customize highlight section and add the hex code of your game and hit enter. Hint: You can always change the hex color if you are not satisfied with your original choice.

Edit your integration settings

Edit your integration settings

Set up the Primary Highlight Color

Set up the Primary Highlight Color

Save, and voilà! You have a a new, customized skin that matches and blends with the look and feel of your online game.

Colors to match your game

Colors to match your game

The new, customized in-game payment window appears in the context of your website/online game and blends in with the flow of the game. As much as we love our color schemes, they can sometimes appear jarring to the user playing your game, especially as they are about to open their wallets and send you money.

Why would you want to customize the in-game payments experience? There are three simple reasons. First, you can now control the look and feel of your website. Second, you can improve your conversion rate. Our initial tests have shown an improvement of around 10% across several applications. Third and most importantly, by deploying a natural, blended looking in-game payments experience, you provide your users with a natural way to pay without interrupting the flow of their game. The payment window appears in the context of the game and blends in with the flow of the game. This ensures that the user stays engaged in the game.

So, go ahead and give it a spin. Take control of your game and effectively increase user engagement, increase conversion rate, increase your revenue, and most importantly extend your brand. Skin your Social Gold in-game payments flow now!

Don’t forget to let us know what you think and ping us. We want to hear from you.

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