Psyched to be attending The Ottawa Network’s first Mobile Application Showcase tomorrow night (June 22, 5-7 pm) at the Velvet Room in Ottawa. About time someone got all these great companies together to showcase Ottawa’s innovative talents and unite the many entrepreneurs running around town with mobile apps these days! Rob Woodbridge (of Untether.tv) will be presenting, and the following companies will be showing off their apps:

GlitchSoft
(makers of BarStar game for iPhone)
GlitchSoft is about to launch their first title, BarStar, which is a time management game about bartending
www.barstargame.com

Zeebu Mobile
(makers of SuperBabyGo! and other toddler games for BlackBerry)
www.zeebu.com

WickSoft

(exchange/sharepoint software for BlackBerry)
www.wicksoft.com

Magmic
(mobile games, apps, and more)
www.magmic.com

QContinuum
(makers of Planets for iPhone and iPad, downloaded over 3M times)
www.qcontinuum.org

Come have a drink and mingle with Ottawa’s mobile edge! Just heard that they opened up some more tickets ($10 each) so there’s still time to register here.

Be sure to look for me and say hi or ping me at http://twitter.com/frasercole.

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Slides from the Offerpal Monetization Workshop « The Offerpal Media Blog

Two informative slideshows from the monetization experts at Offerpal on best practices for generating revenue from social games. Many of these guidelines can apply to other connected game platforms, as well (console, mobile?).

My takeaways:

• Keep your content compelling and fresh
• Have multiple currencies (e.g., Green Bucks and credits)
• Work on getting the right balance between perceived value and inflation
• Users have different motivstions to share, allow flexibility