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Zynga is a very familiar name to almost all Facebook users who play some kind of social networking games in Facebook. Yes, you must have seen the name on the top or bottom while playing FarmVille (the top Facebook game for this month) or Mafia Wars or Texas HoldEm Poker or YoVille. It’s the most popular developer of social networking games right now.

Playdom is another similar game maker rival of Zynga. One of the most poplar games they’ve developed and I’ve played is Sorority Life. It might not be that bigger that Zynga but it sure doesn’t think like that.

Anyways, Playdom was accused of stealing what Zynga calls it’s Playbook “secret sauce” through their employees. According to Zynga, some seven former Zynga employees who now work for Playdom may have taken a few proprietary documents with them.

In response all Playdom said was what they had to say. “Not Interested” lol

This lawsuit comes as no surprise given Zynga’s penchant for litigation. We do not believe in using unnecessary litigation as a business strategy, and we are troubled to see an industry as bright and promising as ours weighed down by such tactics.

We have no interest in Zynga’s “Playbook” or “secret sauce.” Our strength comes from our 111 talented people, and we will defend ourselves vigorously against this distraction.

- Playdom

Now, I’m not sure what this secret sauce or recipe of Zynga is and it is it really what Zynga is really saying it is or whatever it is but I sure like to have my hands on it. You know the Menu Competition is on in Restaurant City. Who knows I might win the contest with the recipe of this sauce. Sorry Zynga. I was just kidding. lol

written by rajit \\ tags: Facebook, Social Networking Games

Yesterday, I was checking out the threads in V7N’s forums and there I saw a thread titled “Facebook is Google’s greatest threat?” I thought for a minute and then I gave it a thought again and thought – What rubbish? What a fool to think like that? How in the world can you compare a Social Networking Site with the king of internet Google? Makes no sense at all.

I know Facebook’s driving a load shit of traffic lately and many advertisers and marketers are shifting to Facebook but its traffic is in no way comparable to what Google gets in a day. Marks making a load of cash too but “Can he retain it for long?” is still a question. Microsoft is spending a lot on it (Gates bought the 1.6 percent of Facebook’s stake for whooping $US240 million) but that’s merely just useless try to get Google down from the throne. Google might start a social networking site itself, who knows, it might buy out Facebook too.

written by rajit \\ tags: Facebook, google, Google’s Greatest Threat

Social Networking sites are getting very popular nowadays. Especially youngster and teenagers have been sort of addicted to such websites. Hi5, Facebook, Tagged, are just few in the enormous list of such sites. Anyways, the news is that Facebook which is one of people’s favorite has new introduced a Spanish version of its popular social networking site to attract new viewers. Though Facebook has been very successful in past, still it has been facing tough competition from other similar social networking sites and this might be its way to answer its competitors. The firm has confirmed of having 60% of its 64 million from outside the US and it has several other versions of this site. In future French and German versions have also been expected.

“Our goal has always been to allow people to use Facebook in their native language so we built an application to enable users to participate in translating the site into their local languages and dialects,” said Facebook’s founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

I must say that it’s a well planned effort to attract new customers. Let’s see if this could really help them in the competition that is growing in the internet world.

written by rajit \\ tags: Facebook, Internet, Social Networking sites, Spanish version of Facebook