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Join Viximo At Social Gaming Summit In June

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Social Gaming Summit is coming up in June in San Francisco.  This is one of a few small conferences that Charles Hudson of Serious Business organizes.  Others include Virtual Goods Summit and iGames Summit.  Charles and his crew always do an amazing job at bringing together some incredibly smart people.  These summits are by far the most productive conferences Viximo has participated in. I’m sure there will be a lot of great conversations about virtual goods.  Details and discount code are available below.  Early bird tickets are going fast, so register now.

Social Gaming Summit 2009
June 23rd, 2009
Hotel Nikko, San Francisco
Website: http://www.socialgamingsummit2009.com
Registration: http://socialgamingsummit2009.eventbrite.com

The Social Gaming Summit 2009 is a one day event focused on the intersection of games and the social web. This year’s event will focus on helping social games developers build, monetize, and grow their social games. We’re bringing together the leaders in free-to-play games, social networking, and payments infrastructure for a full day of panels and talks. We’ll have executives from Zynga, Playdom, Playfish, Serious Business, Offerpal, Super Rewards, PayPal, Zong, Challenge Games, Kongregate, Xiaonei, hi5, MySpace, Facebook, and other leading companies in the social gaming space.Register now to take advantage of our limited number of $299 Early Bird tickets. If you miss the Early Bird window, you can save 10% on General Admission tickets by registering with the code VIXIMO.

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What Are Digital Goods? (or, See Me In Spandex!)

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

I can’t believe I forgot to publish this weeks ago.

Here’s a little video our in-house studio illustrated (and was then animated by our friends at Jantze Studios) for us to help explain digital goods, virtual gifts and what Viximo has to do with all of this. Please enjoy and don’t mock me for my god-like* animated physique.

For those of you in an RSS reader, here’s a link to the video on the ViximoElves YouTube page.
* That god is Buddha.

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Viximo Launches on We’re Related Facebook App

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

File this away under the recently non-vacant “Emails From a Product Manager I’m Glad I Read” label. From one of our PM’s, Melanie “Grandma” Butcher:

“I’m pleased to announce that a new publisher has gone live today. We’re Related is a genealogy Facebook application with over 330k visitors per month and over 14 million installs. To put this in perspective, they have twice as much traffic as Birthday Calendar, our next biggest publisher.”

So there ya have it. In one day we double the amount of exposure each one of your items can receive. Publisher sales and trend data for We’re Related will be available soon inside the Creator Community.

Questions? Comments? Statements of joy or pain? Leave ‘em in the comments.

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Join Viximo at the Virtual Goods Summit (and I’ll give you a hug)

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The much anticipated* Virtual Goods Summit is this Friday in San Francisico.

The whole sha-bang is about virtual goods, the markets they’re creating and all the awesome that surrounds it.

The fine folks over at the VGS have extended us a promo code for Viximo blog readers for 10% off the ridiculously priced $449 entry fee with the promo code “VIXIMO”. So there ya go. One day, $400-something bucks. This is great if you’re a website considering virtual goods or a competitor attempting to do what we’re doing.** Sign it up here.

Assuming most of the people who read this blog are creators though, you probably got an invite to the Viximo meetup the day before. $4 THOUSAND dollars worth of awesome, free to you.

It’s good to be on the supply side of things, eh?

* Much anticipated because we’re officially launching there.  Also, because I personally have never been to San Fran.
** If you’re a competitor trying to do what we’re doing, give up now. Not only do you stand no chance of overcoming the awesome we’ve created, I control a band of squirrels in our back yard that will show up and annoy all the women at your competitive office. What? You have no women working there? SNAKES.

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My Last Blog Post About the Boston Globe Article

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

I just found out today that the Globe article I blogged about earlier ran on the front page of the paper.

No, not the front page of the technology section or the front page of the back of the paper. The front page of the entire damn paper. 

Which tastes like awesome, am I right?

More importantly, major shout-out to Viximo Creators Juxsen and Lumen whose items were featured in color on the front page.  You can see a picture of the article by scrolling down or by being Viximo’s Facebook friend.

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Viximo In the Boston Globe

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Apparently we made the papers on Saturday. Sweet.

Although “It’s like self-expression, almost” is the worst quote from the entire interview.

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Suggested Conference Room Names

Friday, March 7th, 2008

I just realized that all of the colors I picked out for the conference rooms in the new Viximo office are the same colors as the Teletubbies!

Teletubbies

This is phenomenal for one reason: I think I know how we should name our conference rooms now.

  • Tinky-Winky: Purple Room
  • Tipsy: Green Room
  • Po: Red Room
  • Laa-Laa: Yellow Room

I’ve struck gold here. GOLD.

Apparently we could also name either our cleaning lady or our Friday afternoon entertainment Noo-Noo.

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The Bungalow’s New Color Pallette

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Hot on the tails of the post announcing the new Viximo Bungalow, I’m hitting you up with my color palette for the conference rooms. The colors look a little distorted since I took it with my 1972 Polaroid camera, but I think you get the point.

Conference Room Color Palette

How do you name a set of conference rooms?

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The Viximo Bungalow

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Apparently our neighbors don’t like our 2:00pm raves. That’s cool. We weren’t keen on sharing our toys with you anyways.

So we have to move.

We found an incredible place over in Davis Square in Cambridge.

Upside: It’s bad ass and girls will likely want to sleep with most of us (sorry Winfield) after visiting for mere minutes.

Downside: The place looks like a single mother with 13 kids and a coke habit occupied it first.

We’ve been told that if we’re not out of our current place by April 1st that our neighbors are calling the cops about the “working girl”.*

There is supposed to be new floors, painted walls, lighting, etc. This is the scene with 25 days until we move in:

Serial Killer Room

Unfinished Bungalow

Yeah, right. We’re going to be the first homeless dot-com.

Nobody working here even has a garage.

* Little did they know she’s nothing but a dirty tease.

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Executive Headshots

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

We recently realized people wouldn’t think we’re a real company just by looking at the current viximo.com website that’s up right now. (I mean seriously, I think I drop the F bomb 121 times. Plus I ‘designed’ it in Microsoft Paint). What’s the best way for people slash potential investors slash ladies to think you’re legit?

Executive. Headshots.

So on our way back from lunch at the mall the other day, we stopped by the Sears Portrait Studio and had our photos taken for the Super Bad Ass New viximo.com Website (SBANv.cW from here on out):

Ravi Executive Headshot
Ravi Mehta, Executive PowerPoint Creator

Aaron Executive Headshot
Aaron Pfeifer, Executive Code Monkey slash Cougar Hunter

Rocky Executive Headshot
Rocky McQuacksterstein, Executive Animal and Special Needs Liason

Jeff Executive Headshot
Clark, Executive Pain-in-the-Ass and Chief Offender

Sean Executive Headshot
Sean Lindsay, Executive Scalp Nutritionist and Last Remaining They Might Be Giants Fan.

Chiodo Executive Headshot
Chris Chiodo, Executive Ball Kicker, Viximo Operations Director and Chief Consumer of Soy-based Products

Winfield Executive Headshot
Winfield Peterson, Executive New Guy and Vice-President of We Have No Idea Because He Hasn’t Started Yet

Balfour Executive Headshot
Brian Balfour, Chief Executive Bamboo Waterer and Director of Office Manager

In related news, I’d like to offer up my public apology to the security officer on the Segue. I didn’t mean to hurt you, but I had a $10 bet you couldn’t avoid the door. Thanks for lunch.

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