{"id":161,"date":"2008-10-28T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/28\/playfish-fishes-for-big-bucks\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:29:52","slug":"playfish-fishes-for-big-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/playfish-fishes-for-big-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Playfish fishes for big bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SQelyHvS1UI\/AAAAAAAADYM\/dQnBTqS-3HY\/s1600-h\/playfish_blue.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;width:200px;height:78px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SQelyHvS1UI\/AAAAAAAADYM\/dQnBTqS-3HY\/s200\/playfish_blue.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.playfish.com\">Playfish<\/a>, the social network gaming company founded by wireless industry veteran Kristian Segerstrale, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playfish.com\/?page=press_releases&amp;release=28_10_2008\">announced<\/a> a series B round worth a very respectable $17m from Accel Partners and Index Ventures. Playfish boasts 10m monthly users and claims that 4 of its 5 games are in Facebook&#8217;s top 10. The company also said it recently joined Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/adsense.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/get-in-game-with-adsense-for-games.html\">in-game advertising solution<\/a> and presumably banks on capitalizing on this success. No word on financials but they surely are getting their slice of it (just how thick that slice is, I&#8217;d like to know). No word either on any mobile activities (which might be coming given Kristian&#8217;s background as founder of Macromedia).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Playfish&#8217;s mantra is to enable people to play games with their real-world friends via the infrastructure provided by social networks, and I can confirm that this works: I am an avid player of their games, particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playfish.com\/?page=game_braingame\">&#8220;Who has the biggest brain?&#8221;<\/a> (I am no. 5 amongst my friends so far; a list which is topped by Kristian and I cannot help but think that he might possess cheat codes&#8230;).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A round of this size by investors of this pedigree raised in these times deserves our unreserved respect. You rock, guys!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playfish, the social network gaming company founded by wireless industry veteran Kristian Segerstrale, announced a series B round worth a very respectable $17m from Accel Partners and Index Ventures. Playfish boasts 10m monthly users and claims that 4 of its 5 games are in Facebook&#8217;s top 10. 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