”As we know through the acquisitions of Slide and Jambool, and investment in social gaming giant Zynga, Google is getting serious about the launch of Google Games. While we still don’t know the details of the platform, SocialDeck’s mobile technology seems to be a part of the plan.”

Google’s Social Buying Spree Continues With Mobile Gaming Developer SocialDeck.

”Back in the dark days of 2006, Twitter was just another tech startup competing for attention, so how did it pick up those vital first users? Happily, the service initially gave new users sequential id numbers, so @biz was 13, @noah is 14, and so on. This makes it possible to walk through the first few thousand ids in using the API and reconstruct when every person joined, and so how many users there were at any point in time.”

The March Of Twitter: Analysis of How And Where Twitter Spread.

SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck.

Google Web Store: new business model or gamble? | News.

The End of Moore’s Law: A Love Story.

8 things I wish I knew before starting a business | VentureBeat.

Google’s Got Game | Editorial.

Carmack blows minds with id Software’s Rage, running on iPhone at 60fps with ‘megatextured’ graphics (video) — Engadget.

Lazard: Games have ”critical significance” for Google | News.

”So which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Which companies are ”in the software business” in this respect? As Yahoo discovered, the area covered by this rule is bigger than most people realize. The answer is: any company that needs to have good software.”

What Happened to Yahoo.