Bunchball's Social Gaming Application Now Available on Facebook(R) Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook f8 Event -- Bunchball, the leading provider of community games for online destinations, today announced at Facebook's f8 event the launch of its social gaming application on Facebook Platform. Also launched today, Facebook Platform enables companies and developers to build applications for the Facebook website. Facebook members can now add the Bunchball game application and have instant access to a constantly growing selection of multiplayer games to play with people in their Facebook networks.

Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate and share information efficiently through the social graph - the network of connections and relationships between people. Bunchball is an additional fun connector for the Facebook community, which has more than 24 million active users and is the sixth most-trafficked website in the United States.

"Bunchball games are an ideal application for Facebook users," said Rajat Paharia, founder and CEO of Bunchball. "Our hosted game application provides Facebook users a fun way to interact with people in their network of connections, and it also acts as a vehicle for getting to know new people in the Facebook community."

The Bunchball games currently available to Facebook users include Alien Exterminator, Stripjack, Icebreakers, Wasabi and Pool. Users can be automatically matched with someone in their network of connections or with someone in the Facebook community at large. Users also have the option of inviting friends via email to play along.

Facebook Platform is a development platform that enables companies and engineers to integrate with Facebook and gain access to millions of users. More than 50 percent of Facebook users return to the site each day, providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people's lives.

"Facebook Platform creates an ecosystem for developers to build applications that deeply integrate into Facebook and use its social graph," said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. "By enabling developers to make applications within Facebook, we're working together to create a better utility for millions of people."

About Bunchball

Bunchball is the leading provider of social gaming services for web sites of all sizes. Customers including Lifetime Television, NBC Sports, Eons, Warner Brothers and Toyota use Bunchball's services to enhance their communities, increase site stickiness, and promote their brands through Bunchball's social online game play. Based in Redwood City, CA, Bunchball was founded in February 2005 and can be found online at http://www.bunchball.com.

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    PR Contacts for Bunchball:

    Susan Lusty
    slusty@earthlink.net
    (206) 331-4659

    Karen Blondell
    kblondell@sbcglobal.net
    (310) 325-6405

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SOURCE Bunchball

Contacts

Susan Lusty
+1-206-331-4659
slusty@earthlink.net
or Karen Blondell
+1-310-325-6405
kblondell@sbcglobal.net
both for Bunchball