Charles Hudson’s Weblog

Just wanted to do a quick post encouraging those of you who are interested in smartphone games to attend this year’s Smartphone Games Summit on September 24th in San Francisco. We’ve put together an all-star lineup of excellent speakers and panelists who will share their thoughts on what’s happening in the market today. This year’s [...]

I’ve been playing with Facebook Places for a few days. It’s a really simple to use application. I am not sure if it’s going to “kill” Foursquare, but I am pretty confident that it will succeed. Facebook was supposed to “kill” Twitter by focusing more attention on status updates and the like. It didn’t happen. [...]

Back in March we had the first Freemium Summit in San Francisco, CA. I was really inspired by a lot of the information that I learned from the presenters and I’m now actively working on the sequel to that first event. We had a ton of great speakers, including Pandora, Automattic, Sixteen Ventures, Dropbox, Box.net, [...]

I’m knee-deep in last minute preparation for this week’s Social Gaming Summit. It should be great and I hope you’ll be there to join us. I was spending some time on AppData and was struck by something – I thought it warranted a quick blog post of my own. I was also inspired by something [...]

Just wanted to do one more quick blog post about the inaugural Startup Lessons Learned Conference this Friday, April 23rd here in San Francisco. It’s going to be a really awesome day and I hope you can make it out to the Westin to join us in person. In the event you can’t make it, [...]

I just wanted to do a quick blog post and remind everyone that Earlybird Pricing for the Social Gaming Summit 2010 ends tomorrow, Wednesday, April 14th. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers and topics and you can save 15% if you register using the code SGSCH. We are in the middle of very exciting [...]

One more quick events post. Two of my friends are organizing events that I think are both interesting and worthwhile – check them out if you can: FailChat #1: The Pivot March 3rd, 6:00pm – 9:30pm PariSoma What do Flickr, YouTube, and Nintendo all have in common? They each went through a pivot: the act [...]

I’ve been hard at work on the Freemium Summit and it’s less than a month away. More importantly, for those of you interested in attending, Earlybird pricing ends on Friday. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers and topics (see below) – I hope you can join us! If you read this blog or found [...]

This is a really short post. 1. Earlier this week we announced that Serious Business, where I have been the VP of Business Development for the past 18 months, was acquired by Zynga. You can read more about it here. It’s a great outcome for the team and I’m excited to see what the two [...]

My Google Nexus One is slowly starting to win me over. After a few errors in getting it set up (I’m willing to accept a good deal of the blame upon reflection), I really like the device. It’s not going to displace my iPhone as my primary device until they solve the entertainment experience and [...]