Morning Tech Wrap: Google, Facebook, LinkedIn
August 12, 2011 by admin
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Google has added games to its Google+ social network. Thursday saw the Internet giant start rolling out a games button at the top of users’ streams, with Angry Birds amongst the first games released, according to Computer World.
Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of engineering at Google, announced the new feature in a blog post, noting that users could hide the games pages when they weren’t playing.
“The experiences we have together are just as important as to our relationships,” writes Gundotra. “We want to make playing games just as fun, and just as meaningful, as playing in real life.”
In a further challenge to Facebook, Google is charging game developers just 5% commission instead of Facebook’s 30%, VentureBeat reports. Since announcing its pricing, Google+ could become far more attractive to potential developers as its user base grows. The only catch is that the percentage is promotional, and a fixed rate is yet to be decided. With Facebook committed to 30% though, it shouldn’t be hard for Google to push its own cut up without too much protest from developers.
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Apparently fighting back, Facebook has announced a set of enhancements to its own social game platform. Users can now brag about successes and leaderboard positions on friends’ Facebook Walls, and there’s a new bookmark system on the homepage for easy access to favored apps, VentureBeat reports.
