October 22nd, 2010
Now I have no definite statistics on this but we must surely be getting to the point where there are more virtual than actual farmers in the world? In excess of 60 million people play FarmVille and, according to the developers Zynga, players receive more than 500,000 gifts in the game each day. Do you [...]
October 18th, 2010
When a company holds personal information on 500 million of us, is it too much to expect them to keep it secure? The latest security breach to hit uber-social network Facebook involves the games that many people like to fill their social time with – Farmville, Frontierville and the like – and the advertising networks [...]
October 11th, 2010
There’s a map, well-known in geek circles, that shows “where” we all live online. Recognising that our physical geography isn’t quite as relevant as it once was, it lists our homes on the web. Drawn by Randall Munroe of web cartoon XKCD, the original was done in 2007 and, looking at it now, it looks [...]
August 31st, 2010
As I write this, it appears that Facebook is suffering some serious downtime. The main site’s been up and down like a yo-yo for the past 12 hours – and is now dead – and the mobile site occasionally springs to life for a few minutes… before disappearing again. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m [...]