Patent ID: 8366546

Claim:
A method for displaying an online game in a content stream, comprising: receiving a website logon from a user of a computing device and retrieving a profile associated with the logon; causing a content stream associated with the profile to be displayed in a graphical user interface presented by the computing device, wherein the content stream includes multiple content posts and a view associated with a multiplayer online game, the multiple content posts including content posts by the user and content posts by friends associated with the user through a social graph, and wherein relative locations in the content stream of the multiple content posts and the view associated with the game are ordered on the basis of recency; updating the view associated with the game in response to an event recognized by a game mechanics model of the game; and relocating the view associated with the game to a location of prominence in the content stream, if user data associated with the user who logged on to the website indicates that the user is a participant of the game, the relocating of the view associated with the game to the location of prominence causing the relative locations in the content stream of the multiple content posts and the view associated with the game to be different from the relative locations of the multiple content posts and the view associated with the game when ordered on the basis of recency.