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Even though the iPhone has been dominating developer headlines recently, it looks like there’s still some air in the social-network gaming space. The Social Gaming Network, a start-up that develops games for social platforms like Facebook and OpenSocial, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment firm, Bezos Expeditions.

This comes just months after the company closed a $15 million Series A round from Greylock Partners, the Founders Fund, and others. Founded by the creators of Web 1.0 page creator Freewebs (which now calls itself Webs.com), the Social Gaming Network has assembled a portfolio of popular Facebook applications like Jetman, Super Snake, and Free Gifts, some of which it acquired from independent developers. It counts over 54 million game installs.

It’s one of the more prominent players in the casual-games space along with Zynga, which was created by Tribe.net founder Mark Pincus.

The aim of the new funding, according to CEO Shervin Pishevar, is “to continue capturing new demographics in gaming by distributing the highest quality games available on the social web.”

Most recently, Bezos Expeditions joined the most recent round of Twitter funding.

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Jeff Bezos must like Super Snake: Social Gaming Network gets more funding

Even though the iPhone has been dominating developer headlines recently, it looks as if there’s still some air in the social-network gaming space.

The Social Gaming Network, a start-up that develops games for social platforms such as Facebook and OpenSocial, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment firm, Bezos Expeditions.

This comes just months after the company closed a $15 million Series A round from Greylock Partners, the Founders Fund, and others.

Founded by the creators of Web 1.0 page creator Freewebs (which now calls itself Webs.com), the Social Gaming Network has assembled a portfolio of popular Facebook applications, such as Jetman, Super Snake, and Free Gifts, some of which it acquired from independent developers. It counts more than 54 million game installs.

SGN is one of the more prominent players in the casual-game space. It competes with Zynga, which was created by Tribe.net founder Mark Pincus.

The aim of the new funding, according to CEO Shervin Pishevar, is “to continue capturing new demographics in gaming by distributing the highest-quality games available on the social Web.”

Bezos Expeditions also joined the most recent round of Twitter funding.

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Jeff Bezos backs Social Gaming Network

It can be a real pain trying to keep up with all the upcoming conferences that happen every year. With web 2.0 being the subject of late, there are a lot of conferences and events designed specifically around it. What follows is a list of some of the top web 2.0 conferences happening this summer. Have a browse and see if anything tickles your fancy. Then think about how you can convince your boss to send you.

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