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RockYou Joins The No Scams Parade. But What’s Facebook Up To?
techcrunch.com - 11/3/2009
RockYou Joins The No Scams Parade. But What’s Facebook Up To?
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Zynga changed their lead gen scam policy this morning (the whole Scamville background is here , see updates at bottom as well). And now RockYou is taking steps to clean up their act to, according to an email we've been forwarded. In an email to RockYou's publishers, they say that they will ...
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
techcrunch.com - 11/2/2009
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
— techcrunch.com — Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of... dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. Major media can’t stop applauding the companies long enough ... (more) Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell

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process-one.net - 11/5/2009
Facebook chat supports XMPP, with ejabberd
— process-one.net — Facebook is preparing the launch of their XMPP connection interface. It means that users will be able... to use Facebook with any type of XMPP clients, ranging from desktop to mobile clients. This is a huge news for XMPP because it consolidates the ... (more) Facebook chat supports XMPP, with ejabberd

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Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games
techcrunch.com - 11/3/2009
Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games
— techcrunch.com — Well that didn’t take long. We outlined the not-so-ethical ways that the big social gaming startups are... generating revenue through lead gen scams and subscriptions through a series of posts over the last week. Starting with Social Games: How ... (more) Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games

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VentureBeat:  Interview with Offerpal Media CEO Anu Shukla on the offer “scandal”

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Interview with Offerpal Media CEO Anu Shukla on the offer “scandal”
VentureBeat — ... I saw the [Techcrunch] post on RockYou offers – as mentioned in their email- this is a white labeled Offers product from Peanut labs. The reason that their email is being sent now , is that they did not launch their RockYou Offers product until August 09. Seems like they are just hearing about the July policy. I don’t believe their offers product is widely used , but they do use it for their own apps. Most of their apps – like Slide, were not designed for virtual currency and micro transaction based economies. It seems like they and Peanut Labs went through  ...

Offers controversy stirs reactions across social networking industry
VentureBeat — ... Shukla said that Slide created a lot of its apps in the days before virtual goods took off on social networks as the primary business model. Her company works with Zynga, which has become the largest maker of social games on Facebook and is monetizing well because of its emphasis on virtual goods. RockYou, meanwhile, sent an email to its publishers saying they must comply with Facebook’s latest guidelines. ...

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There has been ongoing controversy surrounding scam ads on Zynga and other social games which make up a large percentage of the traffic on the Facebook Platform. While Facebook is going after the ads, most pundits only see what’s right in front of them, missing a much bigger ecosystem of ...