Social Gaming

Social Gaming

Yay Farmville, right?  Um, no thanks.  There is nothing that I dislike more than logging into Facebook only to see that the same person has about 800 posts about all the crappy things that he or she did in the social games that he or she plays.  That right there is an automatic friend delete and I do not care who you are.  I have deleted close friends and...

Empire Avenue

Empire Avenue

If the real stock market is too scary for you these days, as it is for a lot of people, you still have some recourse to the thrill of investment without having to risk all your real money in online forex trading, thanks to Empire Avenue, the Social Stock Market.  In this safe, virtual world you can grow social capital online. Social capital is imaginary...

Continuing The High

Continuing The High

Civ World for Facebook Zynga pretty much single handedly paved the road for social gaming as we currently know it. Indeed, until very recently, Zynga was the only game in town with its popular city building simulation games. Occasionally, users on Facebook or other social networking sites might run into a brand or movie tie-in with game-like features, but...