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Music Pets Amps Up the Facebook Pet-Caring Genre

Music Pets Amps Up the Facebook Pet-Caring Genre

Local TV news program Chronicle wanted to talk to the coolest companies in Cambridge as part of a piece on how rapidly the area is growing. So after talking with Microsoft N.E.R.D. and Cambridge Innovation Center, enough other people must have turned them down that they ended up at little old Conduit Labs last week.

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Conduit Labs Raises $3 Million B round

Conduit Labs Raises $3 Million B round

LoudCrowd Turns Music into Social Video Arcade

“…we feel like that hype is justified.”

Can Video Games be the New MTV?

“Hyatt says that games can more easily tap into the social aspect of listening to music, which has always drawn people out to concerts or clubs.”

Conduit Labs unveils Loudcrowd social music game site

Conduit Labs is launching a public beta for its Loudcrowd social music game site today in an attempt to create a community that combines social networking with casual game play. Competitors are less the music console games and more like Pandora or Lastfm, which focus on building communities around music.

Moving from MMO to the Web

Many MMO developers are moving away from large packaged releases and toward the web as a platform for development — including Raph Koster of Areae, Dan Ogles of Conduit Labs, and Scott Hartsman of Ohai. But why?

The Idea Factory

The company is a work in progress. Hyatt, a founder at the trendy consumer electronics maker Ambient Devices, has the entrepreneurial itch again. This time, he wants to fuse gaming and social networking to create a new kind of activity – and a new kind of business – on the Internet. And he’s convinced LoudCrowd is it.

Business Week: Rules of the Game

“Some veterans are leaving the industry and bringing their knowledge of game mechanics to different industries,” notes Nabeel Hyatt, founder of a Boston-based game startup, Conduit Labs

VW News: Conduit Labs Releases Facebook App

The app lets users create animated versions of their friends “as unflattering or goofy as you please, then do things to them,” according to the download page….it’s a particularly viral app. You can only create avatars for others. They have to return the favor for you to get your own.