The proposition, that before you launch a new social network platform, find out what your real social network is doing, makes a lot of sense.

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Facebook are looking for a winner here, because the continued success of Facebook as a platform needs a new champion to keep their marketing story fresh to retain developers on the social network based platform.

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OpenFeint is the largest cross platform social gaming network with over 68 million players in 4, 800 games.

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