Comments on: Social Playtime: hi5 Adds Casual Gaming Section

By: Meet The New hi5: It’s Game Time

Meet The New hi5: It’s Game Time — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:48:09 +0000

[...] before the redesign hi5 games section has been doing very well. It only launched in February and already accounts for around 1/3 of the site ’s traffic, and direct user [...]

By: hi5 Adds Chat, With A Social Twist | The Good NET Guide

hi5 Adds Chat, With A Social Twist | The Good NET Guide — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:07:54 +0000

[...] features” to gain more users and is also focusing on engaging users though casual gaming and micro-payments. Hi5 also recently partnered with Paymo to power mobile payments for virtual [...]

By: hi5 Adds Chat, With A Social Twist | Reviews Manual

hi5 Adds Chat, With A Social Twist | Reviews Manual — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:44:40 +0000

[...] features” to acquire more users and is also centering on attractive users though casual gaming and micro-payments. Hi5 also fresh partnered with Paymo to noesis ambulatory payments for realistic [...]

By: hi5 Adds Chat, With A Social Twist

hi5 Adds Chat, With A Social Twist — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:50:49 +0000

[...] features” to gain more users and is also focusing on engaging users though casual gaming and micro-payments. Hi5 also recently partnered with Paymo to power mobile payments for virtual [...]

By: Following Their Massive Layoffs, Hi5 Gets A New Leader

Following Their Massive Layoffs, Hi5 Gets A New Leader — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:10:44 +0000

[...] head as it continues on at a smaller size. The site, is now focusing on forms of entertainment like casual gaming and micro-payments. Hi5 also recently partnered with Paymo to power mobile payments for virtual [...]

By: Hi5 Gets A New Leader | Blog YODspica Ltd

Hi5 Gets A New Leader | Blog YODspica Ltd — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:12:05 +0000

[...] site, is now focusing on forms of entertainment like casual gaming and micro-payments. Hi5 also recently partnered with Paymo to power mobile payments for virtual [...]

By: Following Their Massive Layoffs, Hi5 Gets A New Leader | Reviews Manual

Following Their Massive Layoffs, Hi5 Gets A New Leader | Reviews Manual — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:47:20 +0000

[...] nous as it continues on at a small size. The site, is today centering on forms of recreation same casual gaming and micro-payments. Hi5 also fresh partnered with Paymo to noesis ambulatory payments for realistic [...]

By: infoyourway.com » Following Their Massive Layoffs, Hi5 Gets A New Leader

infoyourway.com » Following Their Massive Layoffs, Hi5 Gets A New Leader — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:20:22 +0000

By: Following Their Massive Layoffs, Hi5 Gets A New Leader

Following Their Massive Layoffs, Hi5 Gets A New Leader — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:56:00 +0000

[...] head as it continues on at a smaller size. The site, is now focusing on forms of entertainment like casual gaming and micro-payments. Gossman, who obviously has experience in monetization, will now try to monetize [...]

By: mario

mario — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:08:47 +0000

viva el rokc

By: In Quest For Real Revenue From Virtual Goods, hi5 Teams Up With PlaySpan

In Quest For Real Revenue From Virtual Goods, hi5 Teams Up With PlaySpan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:38:51 +0000

[...] way, the company is clearly trying to ramp up its revenue streams, recently launching a casual gaming section which hi5 said would prove very important for making money in the long run, and partnering with [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:05:51 +0000

Too little, toooooo late

By: saw.taylorr

saw.taylorr — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:45:32 +0000

brothers and sisters may God bless you all

By: Califman

Califman — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:41:48 +0000

Great and sound observation.

By: Ivailo

Ivailo — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:43:14 +0000

Hi5 is the most annoying social network ever (besides something called WAYN). Constantly loading my inbox with made up invitations is the least I can hate about it.

By: Hi5 Launches Games Section | Odd Ramblings from a Superfly Gaming 3.0 Start-Up

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:23:48 +0000

[...] Techcrunch just wrote an article announcing that Hi5 is launching a games section… Interesting, since we’re working on an Hi5 app at the moment. That other social network boasting tens of millions of members worldwide, hi5, is launching hi5 Games today, adding casual games like sports, arcade, strategy and cards to its roster of social entertainment initiatives catered to some 60 million unique monthly users. [...]

By: nonInnovator

nonInnovator — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:03:27 +0000

so what is next? a virtual world with avatars?

that would be a real SHOCKER!! pathetic.

By: Blogs On Hi-5: Hi-5 TOUR - Hi5.. Social Playtime: hi5 Adds Casual.. » The Stylish . org

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:27:11 +0000

[...] Social Playtime: hi5 Adds Casual Gaming Section That other social network boasting tens of millions of members worldwide, hi5, is launching hi5 Games today, adding casual games like sports, arcade, strategy and cards to its roster of social entertainment initiatives catered to some … [...]

By: ReluctantObserver

ReluctantObserver — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:58:59 +0000

This is news somehow? MySpace has casual games too, take a look at how well they’re doing and you might not be that impressed. The biggest challenge with Hi5 is its user base (some have already pointed out). Its users are all in relatively (if not dirt) poor countries: Thailand, Romania, Macedonia, etc… And, also, consider this: Hi5 is based in San Francisco; for them to scale their business (through revenue), in relative buying terms, it becomes an almost impossible mission. They must know this. There’s zero chance they will overtake or slow down the momentum that Facebook has gained international (at their expense and others’) and will face unbeatable competition from Myspace in the U.S. market, as well as Facebook too. So where do they go? To never-never-land. Like so many other companies before it. What Google did to search, Facebook is doing to social networking. Where’s Lycos, Webcrawler, and other search engines today? Gone. Hi5 SHOULD have seized the latin american market when it was clearly the leader in this space, they are currently losing market space at a rapid pace. As others have also pointed out, Hi5 has done nothing to innovate. Where is their innovation? They initially copied Friendster, then MySpace, and do not have the resources to copy Facebook. For them, their time is coming to a slow, but predictable, end, and they know this.

By: multiplayer games

multiplayer games — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:43:31 +0000

Agreed it’s hardly very inovative but it’s an easy, low cost way of increasing revenues, and in the current economic environment that’s fair enough.

By: Crapsite

Crapsite — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:46:59 +0000

Their site is the worst designed social networking site i have seen. They need a redesign.

By: Insider

Insider — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:45:25 +0000

Forward thinking? Are you serious? Ad supported flash games is hardly forward thinking.

Their site looks terrible and these games are everywhere…

If anything I’d say Hi-5 is very late to the game, so to speak.

By: Hi5 añade una sección de juegos « Sin Futuro y Sin Un Duro

Hi5 añade una sección de juegos « Sin Futuro y Sin Un Duro — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:53:02 +0000

[...] popular red social hi5, que tiene una fuerte presencia en sudamerica, ha incluído en su plataforma una sección de juegos que según la propia red social se convertirá en una importante fuente de financiación de la [...]

By: Jim Beam

Jim Beam — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:01:27 +0000

big deal? every social network has games.

Hi-5 is irrelevant. they have a limited US audience and very few real advertisers. All these alleged users from obscure countries are useless.

By: sharpshoot

sharpshoot — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:58:27 +0000

Any other social network should be able to do this with the HeyZap API

http://www.heyz...e_site_type=api