• What games work best on Facebook? « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog

  circa 2008, but still interesting info… “I completely agree. As Matt notes in his post, there have been two paths to success for Facebook games. One has been to build lightweight “proto-games” that spread virally on the back of self expression or communicaiton. The other has been to build true games with complex and engaging game dynamics. These games do not grow as rapidly, but they do draw much higher daily engagement rates.” go read the whole thing

• Traffick: The No Advertising Fallacy: The Business of Search

  very link-baitable idea, though, i think…. “Buy Nothing Day.

  Various guilt-ridden middle class people doing their best to march in solidarity with imaginary downtrodden, non-materialistic brothers and sisters, say the darndest things about brands, advertising, and when you come right down to it, the joy of shopping for, thinking about, and buying, stuff.”

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  Facebook Games

• Book Review – Being A Starving Artist Sucks By Jeremy Tuber | Little Box Of Ideas

  looks to be a book to put on the reading list…

• Google Says Spamming Other Sites Can Lower Site Ranking

  this should be interesting to follow…

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