Freewebs Drops The “Free” And Launches It’s Own Facebook Gaming Network
Nick Gonzalez
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Freewebs is taking a step back from its personal website network and expanding into a social media portfolio company under the name Webs.com. The domain will serve as a hub for its new web properties, including recently launched social publishing site Pagii and Freewebs. The site will also include a new property, the “Social Gaming Network” (SGN).
SGN is a game developer that builds applications for social networks. Currently, they’re making games just for Facebook, although Open Social integration seems a no-brainer. Their games include Warbook, Super Snake, Street Race, and Blocky, as well as their recently purchased Fight Club (for an undisclosed sum). You can add each of the games to your profile like any other app, which turns out to be a bit of a pain. I’ve started glossing over the Facebook permissions checklist. Each of the games is a decent way to waste away your work day on Facebook, but Blocky took up the most of my time.
The new network makes a lot of sense. In essence, Webs is doing what other casual gaming services like Kongregate and King.com are already doing off the site, but using an existing social network instead of building one. The games leverage the network in varying degrees. Warbook is a feudal RPG that lets you make allies or fight your friends kingdoms. Snake is understandably more solitary. But all the games encourage users to play more games by earning points for virtual goods, or bragging rights by pw0ning their friends on the leaderboard.
Great assets.. good strategy.. another winner to be for sure! /ac.
Good to see another MD Internet company!
A bit Sleepy here for startups!
Webs.com and Facebook? Undigestible.
But good for Facebook, though. The more the competitors, the better it is. Facebook already has probably a million apps.
I will be developing apps for them hopefully soon. I think that facebook and myspace reached their limit, people want always more and FB and MS is old school.
I am designing social networking site with Ruby hopefuly to be done this year. Has some Ajax and stuff.
holy crap Livecrunch, with Ajax even?!!?
Develop for the meebo.com platform if tired of FB or MSpc.. more restrictive, but much less competition, than 10K apps FB has… 10K.. wonder how many unique developers..
OMFG, that’s just so awesome.
Who in their right minds would ……
freewebs? have i come across them any place besides as googlecruft?
Just tried their Street Racer game and it was jaw-droppingly lame. Uninstalled it right away.
go DC. w00t!
their applications seem to run veeeeeeeeeeery slow and are unreliable…i tried president’s (sherwin?) website which is built on their own application and it was just awful…..cheap servers, cheap bandwidth, lame infrastructure!!
The Blocky game is OK. But, why anyone would play it on Facebook instead of Newgrounds or Miniclip is beyond me. The friend/multiplayer features are so basic as to be irrelevant.
not groundbreaking, but interesting nonetheless…
Erick! Come on, man. “…It’s Own Facebook Gaming Network?”
The possessive form of “its” does not take an apostrophe. “It’s” means “it is”. It does not mean “belonging to it”.
I’ll not be adding any games to my Facebook profile page - unless they’re paying me.
If you are interested in gaming with your Facebook friends, take a look at http://www.mindjolt.com/. All your bases are belong to them.
Try our stuff - multi-player games, points, avatars, leaderboards, etc.
http://apps.facebook.com/games
Wow Nick, that was painful to read. Where in the world did you learn to write?
I had two paid accounts with Freewebs for the past two years, and have been annoyed and frustrated with their latest attempts to be the next ‘Myspace’. I have since left them; their customer service was always crap, and their developments for Freewebs users have been unbelievably slow and overly buggy. There is a general consensus by their core paid users that their service has diminished, as they focus more on Pagii and other useless gimmicks.
They should stop focusing on creating new products and fix the one they started with.
could someone please visit my website!?!?!?!?!?! its my very first one so its not very good but it would be encouraging if someone visited it.THANKS!!!!
i think these guys are only in it for the money there are tons of problems with there games but they are to busy rolling in the money to care if they even had any dignity in them they would try to fix there games. but money must be more important than having things work for people. they owe us game money and its not fair to leave us in the dark.