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Prior to joining Playyoo, Burg served as interim CEO of factline Webservices,specializing in distributed knowledge work. Before that, he was founder, chieftechnology architect, and shareholder of permalink bpc, a social softwaredevelopment and consulting firm. Burg has also served as managing director for eightyears at the Center for New Media at the Donau-University Krems. He is the initiatorand organizer of BlogTalk, the first European conference on weblogs and socialsoftware, and is a frequent speaker at leading events on the subject of internal andexternal communication via Web 2.0.
Thomas has been heavily engaged in the social media sphere for years and hisexperience and vision will be fundamental to the development of the Playyoocommunity, said Chris Pelly, CEO of Playyoo. We re looking to spread the fun worldof mobile gaming to a whole new group of mobile users and let professionals andnovices alike express themselves though their own games on a global stage.
The Web 2.0 phenomenon has shown just how important it is to democratize the meansof production to enable everyone to create content and express themselves within alarger community, said Thomas N. Burg. Playyoo is applying this philosophy to theonce specialized area of mobile game publishing and I m excited to be taking part inthis revolution.
Playyoo s December launch will feature key innovations in the mobile casual gamearena, including: easy game discovery and downloads, easy-to-use game creationtools, and social networking. Playyoo is sponsoring the Playyoo Game Contest, whichoffers approximately $40,000 USD in cash prizes and is open to independent mobilegame developers using Adobe Flash Lite technology. An additional $15,000 in cashprizes is available to members of regional Flash Lite User Groups. Everyone can geta taste of Playyoo, and learn more about the Playyoo Game Contest, by visiting thepreview site at www.playyoo.com.
About PlayyooPlayyoo s mission is to build a loyal worldwide community around the creation andplay of mobile casual games. Today, only a small proportion of mobile phone usershave discovered the fun of mobile casual games and even fewer have had thesatisfaction of expressing themselves through this medium. Playyoo will offer abroad selection of easy-to-find, free games, created by members of its community,along with the fun experience of social interaction, all on a single platform.Playyoo will generate revenues by providing relevant advertising and other marketingmessages to its profiled community. Playyoo is a privately held company based inLondon, England.
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