If you like shopping, but would like to get rid of the tedious aspects you can play Sugar’s new Retail Therapy social game. Design and manage a boutique, purchase inventory, grind through 40 levels. Fun! OK, actually sounds like it could be a hit. One thing we liked was that the virtual inventory are replicas [...]

For social games looking for alternatives after Facebook announced that everyone would need to use their new currency while also making notifications much more difficult (and expensive) to come by, Offerpal is launching SocialKast, a platform for notifications. TechCrunch reports the system will “enable game developers to connect with audiences across social networks and media [...]

Chris DeWolfe, a MySpace co-founder recently acquired MindJolt a casual games distribution platform. According to TechCrunch they are now planning a social gaming roll-up with the help of roll-up kings Austin Ventures Rather than attempting to build hit games and acquire a large internal team of engineers, the plan is to focus on independent developers, [...]

Stack Overflow is a great Q&A site for programmers created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. They have been building out the software platform to target other verticals — some internally developed such as Server Fault for computer system administrators — and now they have opened up the selection process based on user suggestions. Their [...]