Games linking us together
The winster site may not be famous (yet) but it has provided isolated people with meaningful connections through cooperative games.
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- Winster helps isolated people get connected through gaming
Social-gaming platform Winster, which focuses on fostering trust rather than competition between players, is building a significant following by targeting older Web users and residents of sparsely populated regions of the U.S. The site's business model focuses on helping geographically or socially isolated people to forge friendships -- and while the service is only intermittently profitable, co-founder Michelle Kaplan says investors are starting to take note. "It's going to be a huge market. I think it'll become an area of interest down the road, and we'll get more respect," Kaplan says. San Jose Mercury News (Calif.) (free registration) (12/22)
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