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Healthcare Opponents Using Scammy Social Gaming to Get People to Spam Congress [Scams]
New York :: NY :: USA | about 24 hours ago
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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: Get Health Care Reform, New York, Political corruption, Mafia Wars, Zynga, FarmVille, Gambit, Astroturfing, Facebook applications, Facebook
Thanks for coming to DiscoveryBeat
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Entrepreneurs, developers, and other folks interested in mobile and social applications gathered in San Francisco yesterday for DiscoveryBeat 2009 , VentureBeat’s event on how apps can stand out in “an age of noise.” The afternoon was packed with panels...
Tags: San Francisco, Video game developers, Resident Evil, Land Rover Discovery, Zynga, Automattic, Electronic Arts, WordPress, Entertainment Software Association, Technology Internet, Video game publishers, Intellectual property
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
Santa Cruz woman leads lawsuit against gaming companies
Santa Cruz :: Bolivia | 1 day ago
Credibility A 41-year-old part-time dance instructor and graphic designer from Santa Cruz is the face of a class-action lawsuit designed to force Web sites that offer social gaming to rein in what she calls deceptive ads...District Court in San Francisco, Rebecca...
Tags: Zynga Game Network, Font Resize Santa Cruz, suit claims, Rebecca Swift, Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Virtual economy, Zynga, Advertising, Facebook, Online social networking
Turning the tables, Playfish clones Zynga’s poker game on Facebook
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility In the fast-growing social games business, Zynga has proven to be a master of copycatting. Playfish, by contrast, has created a number of original titles that have been copied by others. But today, Playfish is turning the tables with the launch of Poker...
Tags: Texas Hold, Zynga, million monthly, active users, monthly active, Playfish, San Francisco, Poker, Mafia Wars, Turn, Technology Internet
Suit alleges online gamers soaked for cash
Santa Cruz :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility An online game developer is using deceptive offers to illegally soak Facebook users for millions of dollars, a California class-action lawsuit alleges...District Court in Sacramento, Calif., accuses Zynga, the developer of the popular YoVille online "virtual-world"...
Tags: Zynga, California, Santa Cruz, Frivolous litigation, Technology Internet, Facebook, Online social networking, Law Crime
Final speakers for DiscoveryBeat: RockYou’s Lisa Marino, IGN’s Roy Bahat
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 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
Want to be a CEO? Try product management first
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Launching your own business is a daunting task – and one that can make even the most confident entrepreneur doubt his or her skills. Mark Pincus, CEO and founder of Zynga, in this entrepreneur-though-leadership lecture given at Stanford University, says...
Tags: San Francisco, Zynga, CNBC, Business Finance, AOL, Mark Pincus, Yahoo!, Year of birth missing, CNNMoney.com
New generation of online games attracts millions
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 7 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
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