Just in case you forgot, the biggest, baddest, most over-the-top Facebook game launch is going down tonight at 6PM PDT. Snoop Dogg will push a button, an armored truck will explode, and ten million people will play Mafia Wars Las Vegas.
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It started with some “illegal tender” in Hermosa Beach last week, and it’s guaranteed to end with a bang–Mafia Wars Las Vegas has reached their 10 million player threshold, and they are gearing up to blow up an armored truck this Thursday, August 19th.
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A panic button application installed into Facebook in the UK after pressure from a prominent British child protection organization, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop), is reportedly a success.
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At 13th Street and Pier Ave., right on the pathway in front of the Hermosa Beach House in Hermosa Beach, CA, lies a pile of money, or so it seems. Upon closer inspection, it appears that these are not your average U.S. currency. These are stickers, $25,000 bill stickers from the Mafia Wars Mint Collection labeled “Mafia Wars Illegal Tender.”
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Residents in Delhi, India have been transformed into police informants ever since the traffic police launched a Facebook page in order to crack down on bad drivers.
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Last week we learned of the outcome of Facebook’s lawsuit with Power Ventures aka Power.com – terms of service violations are not criminal offenses. This was somewhat of a loss for Facebook, and they don’t want users talking about it now.
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Facebook’s assets are no longer on legal lockdown since a New York Judge struck down a temporary restraining order against the company on Friday. It was pretty unbelievable news that surfaced last week: a man claimed to have signed a contract in 2003 with Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg to build a “live functioning yearbook with the working title of ‘The Face Book.’”
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A man has filed suit in the Supreme Court of New York’s Alleganey County alleging that by virtue of a 2003 contract with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder he owns an 84% stake in the billion dollar social networking business.
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World Cup players have no doubt been playing the football game with all their might over the last few weeks. But how well are they playing the social media game? The New York Times made it easy to tell by posting an infographic depicting the popularity of World Cup players on Facebook during each day of the tournament.
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In a lawsuit filed this week by Merchant Law Group based in Toronto, a class of Canadian users is accusing Facebook of changing its terms of service and users’ privacy settings without their consent.
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