MyMiniLife

MyMiniLife allows users to express their physical life on the web by creating virtual homes. The service also allows users to take photos of real life objects which they can then import into their online life.

Zynga officially announced the acquisition of MyMiniLife, whose technology supported FarmVille’s rise to 6 million daily active uniques in a month and half.

Farmville:
http://www.developeranalytics.com/app.php?id=102452128776

Zynga's press release:
http://zblog.zynga.com/?p=899

Really excited to let you know about coming to a close on our acquisition of MyMiniLife. Here’s the bulk of the news, but we couldn’t be happier. The MML team has been so awesome and we’re happy to officially welcome them to the Zynga family!

Zynga Closes MyMiniLife Acquisition

Zynga (www.zynga.com), the largest developer of social games, today announced the closing of the acquisition of MyMiniLife, Inc., a social networking site that allows you to build and decorate environments. As part of Zynga’s active growth strategy, the company is seeking to integrate the MyMiniLife staff and technology into Zynga’s industry leading teams and technology.

“We’re constantly looking for the highest quality talent and technology to help us build our business,” said Mark Skaggs, VP and GM of Social RTS at Zynga. “The MyMiniLife technology and team is a perfect complement to the top notch teams here at Zynga.”

Zynga currently has 20 million daily active users and 68 million monthly active users.

“We’re very excited to join Zynga and help grow the business in any way we can,” said Sizhao Yang, CEO of MyMiniLife. “We’re looking forward to being an integral part of Zynga’s leadership and growth moving forward, and are happy to have supported FarmVille’s amazing success with MyMiniLife’s technology.”

• zoya jamal wrote (1 month ago):

  how can i lay mini life i am new so pla help me

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• GiiE ACUñA wrote (1 year ago):

  Where's the new Minilife ? I want to play it haha

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• Ashley Harris wrote (2 years ago):

  Hi Sizhao,
  I wanted to introduce myself as I am heading Plug and Play Tech Center's Redwood City campus. We are an accelerator for high tech startups in the Silicon Valley with a community of 220+ early stage companies with access to funding, business development, corporate development, talent acquisition team, full IT services, and real estate solutions. I wanted to connect with you in regards to our services as well as specifically our deal flow sessions with tier one VCs. We have the partners of Greylock, Vantage Point, NEA, Khosla Ventures, Westly Group, Lightspeed Ventures, Sierra Ventures, DFJ and many more.
  Let me know if you are interested in any of our services and I would love to give you a tour of our facility.
  
  Best,
  
  Ashley

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• Sizhao Yang wrote (3 years ago):

  Yup that's the idea. We're definitely trying to get there :)

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• Kirill Makharinsky wrote (3 years ago):

  reminds me of cyworld. very lucrative business model given enough activity..

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