Video Games as Astroturfing

Rachel Maddow covers the controversy over using virtual offers as a political tactic: She does an excellent job of breaking down the economics.


Zynga gets shut down- Updated

After writing a few days ago that I felt that Michael Arrington had unfairly targeted developers as being culpable for scam advertising offers, Zynga goes ahead and proves me wrong by allegedly blocking the IP addresses of Facebook employees from seeing certain ads, and getting Fishville banned in the process. That’s led to Facebook taking [...]