A few hundred people showed up yesterday at VentureBeat’s successful industry event, DiscoveryBeat2009, focused on application discovery in an age of noise.  Some of the event highlights include presentations by Zynga and YouWeb:

Bill Mooney, general manager of Zynga’s insanely popular social game FarmVille, offered his advice for social game developers. Speed seemed to be the theme uniting his different ideas. The social game industry is changing quickly and unpredictably, he said, and companies need to keep up.

“This space is much, much faster than a traditional space,” Mooney said, later adding, “A week is a month, a month is a quarter, and a quarter is a year.”

Read the full story on VentureBeat.com:
http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/12/08/zyngas-tips-for-social-gaming-success-move-fast-play-farmville/

Peter Relan, Founder and Chairman, YouWeb, talked about his team’s success in incubating several social and mobile gaming companies. He announced the launch of Little Monsters, similar to the cross platform play that was launched by SpyMaster at http://playspymaster.com/, it allows users to play cross platform on Facebook, iPhone and the Web.

Check it out: http://apps.facebook.com/little-monsters/

The race is on…..stay tuned in 2010…..to see who will lead with speed!

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