1) According to yesky.com’s interview for 360 president Zhou HongYi about the platform openness, Zhou said that a real open platform is which can share users and traffic with other developers and possesses two-way selection of inclusiveness but not just label an “open” mark. Facebook can get success just because it always focus on the basic services of its platform and not compete with other developers in app market. An open platform should not intervene its developers but gather them to protect this platform.

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When talking about the environment of China social games, Zhou analyzed that lower ARPU and restrict social platform were the large limitations for the development of China social games. If a platform’s profit sharing is up to 80% or 90% (Facebook’s profit sharing is 30%), it shows that the platform is still lack of openness. (imeigu.com)

2) IT168 has made an interview for Shanghai social game company Five Minutes DBA supervisor Jin Guanding about the design, optimization, high availability, DAL structure, automatic operation and maintenance of game database fields. Jin said that Five Minutes’ database—MySQL–was used to maintain the company’s business development and the storage of related data. While the database schema is using Dual-master replication model of MySQL, user database is using Pseudo-distributed database architecture. (IT168)

Jin also analyzed the advantages of Pseudo-distributed database architecture. First, it will offer gamers horizontal and vertical split function which will open the foreground application for users. Second, it can solve those problems which are caused by increasing population of users without downtime. Third, it not only supports for automatic switching and manual intervention switching mode but also provides automatic monitoring and detection functions to improve the availability and reliability of systems. Fourth, developers don’t need to worry about MemCache and database operation but just cooperate with Pseudo-distributed database architecture through stipulated JSON agreement, which will help to increase developers’ efficiency, achieve code reusing and shorten product development period. (IT168)

3) According to cyzone.cn’s interview for SNSGAME founder Xu Le, Xu analyzed some issues they had encountered in the field of social games. Xu said that although their theme school social games had attracted many gamers when released in Taiwan market, because of the ignoring for operation which finally led to the early elimination of those potential games. Xu also suggested two important points for star-ups: first, they must take account for both research and operation, without which they will not achieve the product performance totally; second, they should concentrate on developing a qualified product but not just waste too much time on some nonprofit games. (cyzone.cn)

4) According to people.com.cn, in order to express the real life more realistically, kaixin001.com’s Happy City has brought the tax system into the virtual city recently. In Happy City, every gamer has his own city and can rent his buildings or facilities to others. It’s said that more than 4 million gamers in Happy City had brought 163 billion virtual currency by virtual leasing. Although there are not details for the calculation and operation of this taxation in the report of people.com.cn, this game will offer some item rewards for those excellent taxpayers. (SOHU.com)