Social Gaming is a Big Scam and More Facebook News

This was a big week for social gaming and mobile billing companies. Back in June at iDate LA, several people brought the social gaming and mobile billing markets. It looks like the sector is about to get cleaned up,

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues”

Continued Action Against Deceptive Ads

Are social gaming offers scamming users? A detailed analysis of Techcrunch’s Scamville article.

Facebook ad API looks interesting.
Facebook Facial-Recognition Tagger Goes Live. This is really cool.
New Koobface Component Imitates Facebook User. The Koobface botnet has pushed out a new component that automates the following routines:

• Registering a Facebook account
• Confirming an email address in Gmail to activate the registered Facebook account
• Joining random Facebook groups
• Adding Facebook friends
• Posting messages to Facebook friends’ walls