Sarah Lacy has written an ill-conceived attack on “mercenary employees” at Facebook who have chosen to cash some of their shares in the company. Facebook has recently announced a tender offer for up to $100 million of...

The analysis is, by necessity, rough, but there is a good chance that Zynga is now the largest web gaming business in the US. Zynga is growing, profitable and bigger than Yahoo. Does anyone still seriously claim...

InsideSocialGames has released their statistics for the top Facebook games in June 2009. I last looked at the top Facebook games in March, so we’re three months down the line. There have been some interesting changes:

Is the beginning of the end of the closed platform? In all the hype of E3, I missed the announcement that Nintendo will be implementing Facebook Connect into the DSi this summer. Microsoft has announced the same...

As I talk more and more to developers about self-publishing, I am becoming more convinced that tapping into user’s existing social networks is a powerful, cost-effective and viral marketing tool for many games. I’ve tended to focus...

AppData and InsideSocialGames track the most popular games on Facebook and MySpace on a rolling monthly basis. The chart (embedded below) makes an interesting read.

BusinessWeek reports that Facebook is seeking $100 million in debt financing for its rapidly increasing server needs. The reason: photos. Well, not quite, but Facebook had 10 billion photos last October, when it had 100 million users....