SuperPoke!
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Superpoke! is a Facebook and MySpace
application originally created by Nikil Gandhy, Will Liu and Jonathan Hsu. It was launched within a month of the creation of the Facebook Platform
. Slide.com
acquired the application, along with the trio, in 2007 and grew the application to become the most monthly active users Facebook application at one point. The application mimics Facebook's own "poke" feature, but adds new features such as the ability to smile, wink, slap, and smack friends on Facebook. The application previously also allowed users to virtually 'stab' a friend; Facebook later asked Slide.com to remove this option from the application.
SuperPoke! differentiated itself from other applications by introducing characters such as a sheep, chicken and penguin. These characters were originally designed by Kevin Ho.
Following more success, Spp held decorating contests where famous celebrities such as Ashley Tisdale
and Keith Urban
came to promote their albums such as Tisdale's Guilty Pleasure and Urban's Defying Gravity
. Winners were awarded special badges and a copy of the CD.
In August 2010 Slide was acquired by Google and almost a year after, Spp announced drastic changes including removing Gold buying, quests, and updates to the games features, due to the game finally reaching the point where it could grow on its own.
On September 2011 Spp announced that the website will be shut down and go offline March 6, 2012.
MySpace
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application originally created by Nikil Gandhy, Will Liu and Jonathan Hsu. It was launched within a month of the creation of the Facebook Platform
Facebook Platform
The Facebook Platform provides a set of APIs and tools which enable third-party developers to integrate with the "open graph" — whether through applications on Facebook.com or external websites and devices...
. Slide.com
Slide.com
Slide, Inc., operator of the Slide.com website, is a Web 2.0 company founded by Max Levchin and based in San Francisco, California. Originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace, the company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of...
acquired the application, along with the trio, in 2007 and grew the application to become the most monthly active users Facebook application at one point. The application mimics Facebook's own "poke" feature, but adds new features such as the ability to smile, wink, slap, and smack friends on Facebook. The application previously also allowed users to virtually 'stab' a friend; Facebook later asked Slide.com to remove this option from the application.
SuperPoke! differentiated itself from other applications by introducing characters such as a sheep, chicken and penguin. These characters were originally designed by Kevin Ho.
SuperPoke! Pets
Slide.com later capitalized on the popularity of the SuperPoke! brand by creating SuperPoke! Pets (also known as SPP), which allows users to take care of virtual pets. This encourages kids and adults to interact with virtual games and taking care of a 'spp pet'. Players are given the ability to customize their characters' looks, home and much more. Slide's VP of product Mike Huang and designer Kevin Ho made a conscious decision to be consistent with the artwork and style. They used the same characters created in SuperPoke! for the animals users can adopt in Pets. They used the same style for items users can purchase in game. UI/UX kept to be simple and straight forward. As SPP became the most lucrative property Slide has, they created two other games under this brand: SPP Top Fish and SPP Ranch.History
SuperPokePets! launched April 2008 to social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Hi5. Slide soon after acquired the app, and added new features to the early app by first releasing gold items in which an app owner could buy gold bars with real money and earning them a badge as a thanks for helping them support the game. In early December 2008, SuperPokePets started work on their own website titled Spp.com or SuperPokePets.com which gave all spp owners on all social networking sites a choice of becoming an spp member for free, so that members could unite into one whole community, customize their own profiles with their existing pets from the social networks, and to participate in activities such as gifting, trading, and taking part in features the network apps did not offer.Following more success, Spp held decorating contests where famous celebrities such as Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series...
and Keith Urban
Keith Urban
Keith Lionel Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age...
came to promote their albums such as Tisdale's Guilty Pleasure and Urban's Defying Gravity
Defying Gravity (Keith Urban album)
Defying Gravity is the title of the fifth studio album by Australian country music artist Keith Urban. It was released on 31 March 2009 on Capitol Records. The album's lead-off single is "Sweet Thing", which topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in March 2009. "Kiss a Girl" was released on...
. Winners were awarded special badges and a copy of the CD.
In August 2010 Slide was acquired by Google and almost a year after, Spp announced drastic changes including removing Gold buying, quests, and updates to the games features, due to the game finally reaching the point where it could grow on its own.
On September 2011 Spp announced that the website will be shut down and go offline March 6, 2012.