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The Idea Factory

  •  by nabeel, 
  • September 25th, 2008
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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

  •  by nabeel, 
  • August 3rd, 2008
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“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

  •  by nabeel, 
  • January 15th, 2008
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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. 

Nabeel Hyatt of Conduit Labs on Intruders.tv

  •  by nabeel, 
  • September 17th, 2007
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Intruders.TV came by the offices here in Cambridge and sat down outside our kitchen to chat about Conduit Labs. Strangely, they don’t have embeddable video (they’ve heard of YouTube right?) but the link is below.

Read/Write Web: Conduit Labs Announces Funding to Build Social Online Gaming World

  •  by nabeel, 
  • August 22nd, 2007
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“The promise of a totally new form of social network product intrigued us…Just as Facebook augmented offline social networks by taking the relationships Harvard students had and building on and complementing those pre-existing interactions online, the same thing will happen with social online gaming.”

Gamasutra: Conduit Labs’ Hyatt On Its $5.5m Social World Investment

  •  by nabeel, 
  • August 22nd, 2007
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“What’s really missing is a Facebook not built on asynchronous interactions, but realtime interactions.”

Metaversed: What is Conduit Labs?

  •  by nabeel, 
  • August 22nd, 2007
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“Projects get funding every day. Why is this one so special? Conduit isn’t just a play space with leaderboards. They’re planning, from the ground up, to create a play space that encourages people to get to know each other… Expect it to be browser-based, expect it to be social-network oriented, expect it to be fun.”

Techcrunch: Conduit Labs Closes $5.5 Million Series A Funding

  •  by nabeel, 
  • August 11th, 2007
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“They don’t want to recreate a social network online, but rather marry existing networks (even perhaps Last.FM) with a 3D gaming experience. In the real world you can call up some friends and play a simple game of basketball. Conduit wants you to enable you to do the same thing easily online.” (Full Article)

Why Virtual Goods Matter

  •  by nabeel, 
  • June 22nd, 2007
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Why Virtual Goods Matter? panel led by Nabeel Hyatt (Conduit Labs), with Craig Sherman (Gaia Online), Daniel James (Three Rings), Amy Jo Kim (Shufflebrain), and Byron Reeves (Stanford) at Virtual Goods 2007.

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