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Facebook gamers offered virtual cash to oppose Obama health care reform
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 5 hours ago
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You could now be a target for health insurance industry trade groups who are opposed to President Obama’s health care reform efforts. Dan Porter told Business Insider after spotting a petition on Facebook offering virtual cash if users would fill it out...
Tags: virtual cash, San Francisco, Web 2.0, Social media, Blog software, Social information processing, FarmVille, Technology Internet, Virtual good, Online social networking, Facebook
Healthcare Opponents Using Scammy Social Gaming to Get People to Spam Congress [Scams]
New York :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Who are the gamers filling out the survey and sending emails to Congress? Facebook gamers tend to fall into two groups: women in their 30s and 40s and teenagers of both sexes. Is this legal? Astroturfing, which involves real money, is not illegal, We...
Tags: New York, Political corruption, Astroturfing, Mafia Wars, Zynga, Healthcare reform, Social Issues, Health insurance, FarmVille, Facebook applications, Facebook, Insurance, Labor, Virtual economy, Lobbying, Gambit, AstroTurf
11 things I didn’t know about app development
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Wednesday’s DiscoveryBeat 2009 conference, an afternoon event about app development monetization put 0n by VentureBeat, was like all our events: High on how-to wonkery, low on self-promotion pitches, and as one person put it, “no douchebags.” Yet each...
Tags: social gaming, San Francisco, Mooney, Zynga, Business Finance, IPhone, FarmVille, Technology Internet, Facebook applications
Terence Blacker: In cyberspace, I can hear the addicts scream
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility in order to encourage children to become involved in the 2012 Olympics, a computer simulation of running round a track is being sent to schools. The ultimate in sport for all (it is so inclusive that children will not even have to move off their obese...
Tags: FarmVille, United Kingdom, London, Rat, Fancy rat, Old World rats and mice, Scavengers, Computer simulation, Chicken, Facebook applications
Carter, Longwood defeat Florida Gulf Coast 82-75
Farmville :: VA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Antwan Carter scored a season-high 20 points to lead Longwood to an 82-75 victory over Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday in a matchup of winless teams...Smith's layup with 3:14 remaining put Longwood ahead to stay, 75-73, after the Eagles (0-6) had rallied...
Tags: Florida Gulf Coast, Longwood, Farmville, Farmville Virginia, Longwood Florida, Greater Orlando, allnews, Prince Edward County Virginia
FGCU women beat Stetson in basketball
Farmville :: VA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Chambers 1-8 4-5 6, Lutkenhaus 1-1 0-0 2, Marks 1-8 0-1 2, O'Neil 0-3 2-4 2, Banks 7-10 5-10 19, Baker 3-9 2-2 9, Miller 4-6 2-2 10, Rolax 2-6 3-4 7, Murray 1-2 0-0 2, Brown 4-6 6-6 14, Lytle 1-3 0-0 2...Smith 6-16 4-6 17, Swecker 6-11 1-3 17, Carter...
Tags: FGCU, Farmville, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, allnews, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Florida Gulf Coast University, Lee County Florida, DeLand Florida, Farmville Virginia, Longwood Florida, Atlantic Sun Conference, Bethune-Cookman University, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Volusia County Florida, Prince Edward County Virginia
Final speakers for DiscoveryBeat: RockYou’s Lisa Marino, IGN’s Roy Bahat
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility We’re excited to announce our final set of speakers for DiscoveryBeat , VentureBeat’s event exploring how to get apps noticed in an age of noise...We’ve got a maximum capacity of 200 and we expect the event will be sold out. Lisa Marino, vice president...
Tags: Greystripe Lisa Marino, vice president, chief executive, Roy Bahat, IGN Entertainment, RockYou, general manager, video gaming, Zynga, VentureBeat Writers, San Francisco, Web 2.0, Blog software, Social information processing, Business Finance, FarmVille, Technology Internet, Facebook applications, Online social networking, Facebook
New generation of online games attracts millions
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 8 days ago
Credibility Yet in recent months the world's biggest social networking site has been invaded by make-believe farmers, chefs and tropical fish collectors. You pretenders know who are. "It kind of just got me hooked," Melanie Earhart, a 46-year-old, self-employed Los...
Tags: Zynga, Mark Pincus, Melanie Earhart, social networking, real money, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Social media, Multiplayer online games, FarmVille, Technology Internet, Online social networking, Facebook applications, Facebook
Facebook's Farmville loses its country glow
Sydney :: Australia | 9 days ago
Credibility The addictive farming application has amassed 60 million players worldwide and is just one of several popular social networking games created by US developer Zynga for Facebook and MySpace users. Its legion of fans log in daily to harvest their crops,...
Tags: Zynga for Facebook, class actions, Australia, Sydney, Web 2.0, Blog hosting services, Social information processing, Zynga, FarmVille, Technology Internet, Online social networking, Facebook, MySpace
Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale!
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Friends For Sale! has had tremendous staying power as a popular app on Facebook . Launched in November 2007, the social game has attracted more than 25 million registered users, and more than a million people still use it every day. But the company that...
Tags: Siqi Chen, Zynga, Powerset, San Francisco, Social media, Social information processing, Playfish, Business Finance, FarmVille, Technology Internet, Facebook, Online social networking, Criticism of Facebook
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