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September 03, 2008
Press Release: Love Sparks Fly on Winster: New Social Gaming Community Fosters Romance
Thousands of men and women are interacting and playing everyday at Winster.com, an online gaming community where players cooperate, rather than compete, to win prizes. Winster's cooperative, community-focused approach helps people live happier, healthier and more socially active lives. And now, it's even helping people find love!
July 23, 2008
Press Release: Housewife Invents New Internet Game
Players help each other win prizes.
July 16, 2008
Winnie Speaks! Interview with Michelle Kaplan on "View from the Bay" (Channel 7 ABC San Francisco)
Previous generations of women had knitting and bridge clubs, but now much of our social networking takes place on the computer. Michelle Kaplan, co-founder of Winster.com, introduces us to a new online social networking and gaming site geared toward women.
June 25, 2008
Press Release: Social Gaming Site Helps Women and Seniors Engage for Better Health
Social gaming site helps women and seniors engage for better health. Gaming community creates new connections, stronger human interactions and happier, healthier lives.
May 10, 2008
Winster - Where friends help friends <~Explaining a fun new site.
May 02, 2008
Game Website Review: Winster.com
February 12, 2008
The future of video games
Shrewd entrepreneurs are already taking this to a new level, offering so-called "casual games" specifically targeted at an older, female audience. Winster.com, for instance, is focused on creating cooperative, social games that particularly appeal to this demographic.
September 02, 2007
Winster Social Gaming Concept
June 17, 2007
Babies, boomers join Web's social circle (USA Today)
Terese Hartjoy, 46, a tattoo artist and grandmother in the isolated desert country of Lucerne Valley, Calif., was drawn to Winster in February (shortly after it launched) because it was aimed at her age group and because of its concept that women prefer to work together rather than compete.
May 02, 2007
More seniors take up 'surfing' (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Jerry Kaplan, developer of Winster.com, a social networking Web site that caters to people who play online games, said the needs and expectations of older Internet users differ from their younger counterparts.
March 16, 2007
Is this the age of the online avatar? (USA Today)
We want our site to be real," says Jerry Kaplan, who runs Winster.com, where "mainly older women" meet and network. Some exchange photos, he writes in an e-mail. "[But this isn't about fantasy lives, avatars, or other masks.
February 14, 2007
Online Dating: Can Social Networks Cut In? (Internetnews.com)
Jerry Kaplan, the former CEO of Egghead and founder of Winster.com, a free social network site where singles can meet and play games with other singles, claims social network sites are more inviting to people because they are not focused only on dating.
February 09, 2007
Winster! A New Game Site!
February 06, 2007
Game start-up says anthropology is its guide (News.com)