Social Gaming Summit and Virtual Goods Summit London 2010 are brought to you by mediabistro.com, Rising Media Ltd., and Charles Hudson. It’s our goal to continue putting on great events that bring Internet and social media professionals together to exchange ideas and make new connections.
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Charles Hudson, Host
Charles Hudson has been active in social games and virtual goods for the past 3 years. Charles is the founder and organizer of the Virtual Goods Summit and Social Gaming Summit, two of the largest industry events focused on free-to-play games and microtransactions. In addition, Charles Hudson is the co-author of Inside Virtual Goods, a series of research reports focused on the growth of social games and virtual goods. Charles was the VP of Business Development for Serious Business, a leading producer of social games for the social web, until the company was acquired by Zynga in February 2010. Hudson holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Stanford University.
Social Gaming Summit In the News
Roundup of interesting coverage of the Social Gaming Summit 2009:
- Social Gaming Scores in the Recession (Sarah Lacy, BusinessWeek)
- Zynga Pushing Nine Figures in Revenue Thanks to Micro-Transactions (MG Siegler, TechCrunch)
- Social Gaming Mob War Breaks Out as Zynga Sues Playdom (Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat
- Social Gaming Platforms Closer to Cashing In (Chris Nuttall, FT)
- Social Gaming Summit Panel Writeups (Jeremy Liew, LSVP)
- 4 Takeaways From the Social Gaming Summit - So Far (Wagner James Au, GigaOm)
- How Apple can improve the iPhone as a Game Platform (Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat)
- In Recession, Social Gaming Comes of Age (Dean Takahashi and Eric Eldon, VentureBeat
- Social Gaming Virtual Goods Discussed in SF Summit (Curt Feldman, Virtual Goods News)
- Social Gaming Summit – The Platform Holders Speak (Christian Nutt, GamaSutra)
- Opinion/Round-Up: Social Gaming – Where’s The (Creator) Fun? (Christain Nutt, GamaSutra)
- IGN: Trendosaurus: Social Games (Jack DeVries, IGN)
- Opinion/Round-Up: The State Of Social Gaming (Simon Carless, GameSetWatch)
- Social game groups scrap over virtual spoils (David Gelles and Chris Nuttall, FT)
- Refining the Metrics Driven Approach
