Japan social networks lure developers

Availability of games is the key differentiator for social networks in Japan. Before now they relied on in-house development or "selected" developers to launch games on their platforms. However, the situation is going to change as the likes of mixi, mobage, and gree are about to release their APIs and development programs. The site that will manage to lure more developers will get the competitive advantage over others in terms of the number of applications available to its users. In the latest news, gree went campaigning for developers promising among other perks funding from the newly established gree fund to the brightest of their kind.

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