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"Bunchball is shaping up to be a nice product.  The service allows you to place Flash games on your blog, your MySpace page or virtually any website.  That's a nice idea, but when I tested the service a few months back it just didn't work right.  I returned again today and things are looking better.  From the site: \nHave a web page somewhere? Take any of our games and put the game directly into your page! Play games with your visitors, or let your visitors compete for the best high score, or chat with them about whatever you want, directly from your page.  Once you have an account at Bunchball, all it takes is a couple of clicks to get the code you need. Copy and paste it into your MySpace, TypePad, Piczo, Xanga or other page, and start playing! Check out some examples on our blog and click the \"get one free\" link on any game to get one for yourself. \nSocial games on blogs is an idea I tried to pursue last year and ultimately dropped in favor of less taxing projects.  So here's what I'd do if I was in Bunchball's shoes.  First, don't develop the games.  Why bother when you have a whole army of peer producers at your disposal?  They're asking developers  to submit games, and I think that's a good way forward.  I don't know whether this is within their grasp, but I think there's definitely a market for the Ning of games - a service that makes it easy not only to share games, but to create your own with virtually no effort.  Right now you have to be a Flash developer to build a game - it shouldn't be so.  (Admittedly, Ning isn't delivering on its promise yet, but you get the idea).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI should also add that Bunchball is a better concept than 3Bubbles because it supports asynchronous use - games can be played in real-time or over a few weeks.  Whether the games are a distraction or a tool for social interaction remains to be seen, but once again the MySpace crowd will love the idea.  And by the way: inserting this game of Snake (above) was incredibly easy."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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