ChipIn Sells Versus Apps to Buddy Media
Happy New Year! Lots of exciting announcements from us so keep your RSS newsreader warmed up and ready to ingest everything we are sending your way. To start things off, I am very happy to announce that ChipIn has finalized the sale of our Versus franchise today. What started off as an idea over a couple of beers as a fun way to market ChipIn on Facebook has turned into a pretty cool game franchise with many flavors. From Pirates, Ninjas, Snowboarders, Skiers, Santa, Grinch, Cops, to Robbers. Why did we sell an application with over 5M users? 5M pageviews per day?
FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS.
We are launching a killer new product at DEMO later this month and as much fun as we were having on the Versus apps, we need to put 100% of our resources into the future of our company.. as a dominant widget authoring technology (sheesh.. more on that soon). There was a pretty cool article in Inc. magazine this month outlining why ChipIn decided to sell our Versus apps on Facebook. As much as we are sad to see our apps go, we are really happy to be working with Michael Lazerow, CEO and his team at Buddy Media to continue to grow our Versus franchise while integrating Acebucks into the applications to create a more robust and fun user experience for everyone.
; A big cheers to Austin and Dustin who have been building out the applications and a toast to Rob and Andy for writing much of the initial code base.So if you have not checked out the Facebook versus apps, go give them a spin. And if you want to read more about the transaction, check out the Buddy Media blog post. What’s going on with DEMO? More info will be coming soon. I’m back and blogging now.