Once it gets traction, other platforms can be supported.
In uncertain economic times, social games have shown serious traction across platforms and a straight-forward revenue model.
Informally I think we were going for elements like technical excellence, traction and platform and of course the pitch itself.
In theory — and if it gains significant traction — the platform could help to level the playing field for local bloggers competing for attention with established media outlets by surfacing their content alongside more mainstream media new stories.
Other businesses are already global without realizing — they are 'accidental tourists' who have gained international traction on their platforms without even trying.
It's understandably pretty difficult to gather traction on consumer platforms that are already complicated enough to figure out on their own.
First, OpenFeint used to be social gaming platform exclusive to the iPhone; and actually gained a lot of traction on the platform, powering social gaming services for over 30 million users and growing at a monthly pace of 25percentt.
And Heroku is seeing considerable traction with its platform.
Von Sydow told us they had aimed for $1.5m but decided to raise more after seeing strong traction for the platform.
And OpenFeint has seen considerable traction with its platform, adding 3,400 games and over 45 million mobile gamers to in just over a year.
PlayHaven has quickly found some pretty serious traction for the platform, already naming heavy-hitters like Halfbrick (Fruit Ninja), DistinctDev (The Moron Test), and Glu (with their bajillions of games) as committed partners.
