Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Facebook With Zynga Live

Re:Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Faceb... by oldgregg on Friday May 07, 2010 @04:55PM (#1328740)

Yes, but I do feel a little bad for the other 20,000 developers that don't have the resources to do anything about it.

It's now clear that "open platform" hype is pure marketing spin -- bullshit-speak to make you think they actually give a fuck.

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Re:Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Faceb... by mattmaroon on Friday May 07, 2010 @05:25PM (#1328824)

Me too since I'm one of them (and my company now 12 of them) but FWIW, none of us ever forgot that Facebook is not the web, and that it has a profit-motivated owner. We've all expected this coming, and any who didn't deserve what they get for being naive.

I'm writing a blog post on my thoughts about it, story at 11.

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Re:Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Faceb... by johnrob on Friday May 07, 2010 @06:22PM (#1328976)

Same goes for Apple and the uprising against their banning of non-native development tools. Facebook is not the web, and iPhones are not computers.

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Re:Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Faceb... by seiji on Friday May 07, 2010 @06:57PM (#1329042)

You may also like... http://futureoftheinternet.org/ (hit the Download link for a free copy)

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Re:Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Faceb... by naner on Friday May 07, 2010 @05:17PM (#1328799)

Everybody has an "open" something or other these days. The term has been rendered meaningless.

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