Over the weekend I wrote about the “massive protests” taking place in Zynga’s virtual world YoVille. I kind of poked at the protesters in the article because they are the vocal minority. When you’re in the midst of a protest it appears as if everybody is protesting. The new changes were controversial for those users who had spent time and money on the game over the past year or two. The main issue was that users are now forced to return to the game on a timed basis in order to earn revenue. I’m still not convinced it’s an unfair…
YoVille Achieves Record Daily Traffic Numbers Despite Protests
Virtual Protests Erupt In YoVille
YoVille, one of the largest virtual worlds on Facebook, recently experienced a relatively large protest against a major change yesterday which modified the way users can earn virtual currency. Previously, users entered a widget factory from where they could earn coins. While users can still earn coins there is a new process in which users must spend money to make money (as is typical in the real world). A number of users are furious and in the past few hours I’ve received numerous users frustrated with the change.
The position of the users was that less money was being generated…
The Makings Of A Facebook DDoS Attack
Some time ago I had the good fortune to work with some developers on a Facebook application that was underperforming. Through a very robust investigation of the application, it was discovered that a large number of invalid requests were being passed to the server. It was the victim of a Distributed Denial of Service attack utilizing Facebook platform and a popular application to bring down the application.
What Can a Developer Do?
Before instantiating ANY code, check your signatures! There are a number of ways to do this, but for starters, check the $_REQUEST['fb_sig_app_id'] and be sure it’s yours!
Spot check…
How to Succeed Online
Starting an online business is both very exciting & also extremely daunting.
Having the right attitude is essential if you are going to succeed, work with what you do know & build on it, don’t get caught up worrying about what you don’t.
Why Newbie’s Fail
Over Analyzing – Newbie’s will start their online career with a flourish & hungry for new information – Be very careful where & who you get the information from, I think internet marketing is infested with back seat drivers (failed marketers). Conflicting information will bring self doubt & lack of action it is important…