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Social Gold Joins Google – A Letter From Our Founders

Posted August 13th, 2010 by Vikas

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August 13, 2010

We are excited to announce that Jambool is becoming a part of the Google family today.

Jambool started as a social collaboration platform in 2006. In 2007, we shifted our
focus to build applications on social networks. Along with success, we found
fun and lucrative ways to monetize our apps – specifically virtual currency and
goods. That led us to create a platform to help developers create, host, manage and
monetize their virtual economies.

Social Gold has grown by leaps and bounds since it went live in 2008. In the first half of 2010, we’ve processed more than double the entire payment volume we processed in all of 2009. And we’ve welcomed hundreds of developers to our platform. The fact that our highest revenue day was in the last week attests to the continued growth of online gaming.

Our vision is to build world-class products that help developers manage and
monetize their virtual economies across the globe. When the opportunity arose to join forces with Google to execute against this vision, we couldn’t pass it up. We are thrilled to bring the Social Gold platform to Google’s global users. And we invite you – our customers, partners, and friends – to continue on the journey with us.

Over the last few years, we have had the great fortune of working with an incredible
team. Every day, we are amazed and humbled by what they have accomplished.
We have had terrific support from our partners, investors and advisors; and we are
lucky to have worked with each of them. Thank you!

As a team, we remain passionate about innovating on behalf of our customers. We aim to deliver the most frictionless, seamless transaction experience inside applications and games on every platform. We are thrilled to be part of Google, and we look forward to the exciting road ahead.

The game has only just begun.

Vikas & Reza

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Cha-Ching 2! Monetization Roundtables – Executive Summary

Posted August 11th, 2010 by MikeQ

At the Casual Connect 2010 conference in Seattle, the Social Gold team hosted our second Cha-Ching! roundtables series. Our inaugural Cha-Ching! session launched back at GDC 2010 in March in San Francisco, CA. In an effort to continue analyzing and breaking down key topics related to online monetization and virtual economy management, attendees at Cha-Ching 2! broke into separate discussion groups with key senior leaders from Social Gold to cover four areas relevant to game developers:

  1. Monetization 101
  2. Manage Your Virtual Economy
  3. Managing Fraud and Enabling Upside
  4. Monetization in Flash
Social Gold's Brian Sharon (Senior Software Engineer) & Chris Houtzer (Sr. Director, Business Development) lead session on managing your virtual economy at the Cha-Ching 2! Monetization Roundtables

Social Gold's Brian Sharon (Senior Software Engineer) & Chris Houtzer (Sr. Director, Business Development) lead session on managing your virtual economy at the Cha-Ching 2! Monetization Roundtables

We’re excited to share the Executive Summary from these roundtables. Whether you joined us for one of the four breakout sessions in Seattle and want to see highlights from the other three sessions, or you simply didn’t make it to the show this year, then read on!

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AlwaysOn Global Recognizes Social Gold Among the Top Emerging Companies in Silicon Valley

Posted July 28th, 2010 by MikeQ

We are proud to share the news that we have been selected as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners. The winners were chosen from among thousands of technology companies worldwide nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry leaders. We are honored to be recognized as an innovative, market-changing company with high-growth opportunities ahead.

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Social Gold/Jambool was nominated under the “Enabling Tools and Devices” category, which stands to validate our leading virtual goods monetization platform. We provide an unparalleled payments experience to users and our in-Flash payments solution boosts monetization for developers.

AlwaysOn is a top business media brand in Silicon Valley and is hosting the Summit at Stanford this week in Palo Alto.

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