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Pokki, which is made by SweetLabs, previously won over fans with desktop versions of popular apps like Angry Birds
Stanley becher , Pandora and Pinterest, an app recommendation system, and a start menu for Windows 8.SweetLabs cofounder Chester Ng showed me the Zynga
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stanley cups e games have the feel of an authentic tablet experience.Ng says the smart arcade features real time notification badges and banners, and starts tailoring games to what the user likes and doesn t like. Pokki is trying to make the PC better for users, developers to help them get distribution, and now device manufacturers, Ng tells me. There are plenty of problems to solve for all three of those constituencies. For developers like Zynga, Pokki offers a new distribution as they try to get their games into users hands beyond Facebook and mo