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Starting With ‘Hollywood Poker’ Launch, PLAOR Aims To Bring Celebrity Glitz To Online Gaming [TCTV]
Thanks to the growth of the web, our pop culture celebrities seem closer to us regular folk than ever — we can Tweet to them, see their personal snapshots on Instagram, access their performances and behind-the-scenes outtakes at any time on YouTube. Now, a brand new startup called PLAOR (pronounced player) wants to extend our celebrity interactions to another popular online realm: Online games.
And the company is getting its start with poker, a game where the celebrity angle has been tried-and-true. PLAOR’s first title that launched this past week is “Hollywood Poker,” and it has lined up a stable of celebrities who will be on deck to play online poker games with regular people, with much of the proceeds going to the charity of each star’s choice.
It’s a pretty cool concept, so it was great to talk it over a bit with PLAOR’s founder and CEO Mark Caldwell, an executive with years of experience both in entertainment and gaming — previously he was the VP of engineering for Disney and Playdom. Watch the video embedded above to hear about how this idea came about, why they’re starting with Hollywood Poker, and PLAOR’s plans for future star-studded game products.
And to find out more about what exactly is in it for the celebrities, it was great to talk via Skype with Kevin Pollak, an actor and comedian who is one of PLAOR’s first show business ambassadors. Watch the video embedded below to hear him talk about why Twitter has been a bit of a disappointment for some of its celebrity users (though he is still on the site), how the growth of the web is impacting the entertainment industry (he’s been an early adopter to tech compared to many of his peers, with things like his online show Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show), why he teamed up with PLAOR, his tips for people who plan on challenging him to poker, and more:
More here: Starting With ‘Hollywood Poker’ Launch, PLAOR Aims To Bring Celebrity Glitz To Online Gaming [TCTV]
Legendary Vinod Khosla Wants To Hear Your Tofu Startup Pitch
The legendary* Vinod Khosla spoke with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington at Disrupt SF today and discussed some of the unordinary startups he has invested in, including an efficient lettuce picker, dairy-less cheese, and high-tech beef.
Khosla said one of the companies is trying to develop salt that is “as salty as salt” but with 50 percent less sodium to combat high blood pressure and other health problems. He said that people tasted one of the startups’ dairy-less cheese and couldn’t tell the difference.
The two argued over how far along the taste of faux beef is and how similar it is to regular meat.
“I just never know where these conversations are going to go when I get on stage,” Arrington said.
Evan Williams and Biz Stone were also on stage earlier today discussing their own meatless meat startup, Beyond Meat. Khosla used his less “techy” startup interests to discuss larger themes, like his emphasis on the importance of hiring.
*Arrington started the interview by noting how he always sees Khosla described online as legendary, asking how and when that happened.
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Tube Star app presents travel updates with a human touch for the London Underground
People looking for a real reflection of travel underground in London can now take advantage of an app that shows Twitter updates of the real experience.
Transport for London (TfL) does a good job of providing technologies for us to get around the capital on time and find out where there are delays on the transport system. But getting a real sense of how it feels to be travelling on the Tube takes a bit more crowd interaction and this is where Tube Star comes into its own.
The Android application pulls in tweets from other users who can report on what is happening around them. Trains running through the London Underground can be hot, smelly, empty, entertaining and have funny drivers who brighten a journey with a joke here and there, but this doesn’t show up on a regular TfL update.
The content is a little sparse at the moment as the app is still quite new. But hopefully as users pick up the habit, it could be a neat way of finding solidarity during delays and other experiences.
Tube Star users can add all of these descriptions as supplement to TfL’s own Twitter information. The more people who use the app, the more colourful the reporting around the state of travel will be.
The app also provides a nice way to say thanks to people who commit random acts of kindness on the tube – like carrying buggies, giving up their seat or helping in other ways.
Though it’s hard to think of London’s Tube commuters as a ‘community’ when the rule of thumb is to avoid all eye contact, conversation or any other social interaction while travelling, it is a regular group of people doing the same thing each weekday.
Maybe the digital distance will help Londoners on the Tube talk to each other after all, just never face to face.
Hat tip to Anniemole of Going Underground
Image Credit: Kevan
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Twitter is finding success with monetizing mobile and Facebook should be taking notes
Much of the cause for trepidation heading into, and of course immediately after, Facebook’s IPO, the big question was how the company was going to monetize its growing number of mobile users.
According to Reuters, Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo says that his company has no such problem.
Costolo spoke at a conference put on by the Economist Group in San Francisco today and shared some interesting information. Namely, Twitter’s mobile ad revenue had surpassed its Web offerings on many days last quarter. That’s pretty impressive.
Here’s what Costolo had to say about Twitter’s mobile success:
We’re borne of mobile. We have an ad platform that already is inherently suited to mobile, even though we launched our platform on the Web and only started running ads on mobile recently.
It makes complete sense that Twitter does well on mobile devices, since its characters are limited to a smartphone-friendly 140 characters. In addition, the company has made its ad units blend in nicely with the rest of the content we see on the network. Paid suggested users to follow, tweets, and hashtags fit in perfectly and don’t jump out at a regular user as an “ad”, as Facebook’s web ads do.
How can Facebook capitalize on by watching how Twitter handles its ads? There’s no doubt that the Open Graph has become a goldmine for engagement, and putting an actionable dollar amount on all of the actions we’re streaming to the News Feed, Ticker and Timeline might be a way to start.
If I listen to a song on Spotify, perhaps you can click through and pay for an account yourself, with Facebook getting a cut of the action.
While this doesn’t mean that Twitter is making more ad revenue than Facebook is right now, it has nowhere near the 900M users that Facebook does, it does mean that the company is on a better path to becoming a profitable company than we might have previously thought.
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