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FarmVille is a very smart game. It was developed by Zynga, the company founded by serial entrepreneur Mark Pincus, which is on track to pull in $500-million dollars in revenue this year. As of July, FarmVille was hosting the digital homesteads of 61 million users.
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Readers, our passion is the Internet. In fact, we're probably online -- posting, commenting, tweeting, Facebooking -- more than you. And yet, despite our deft Web skillz, we still can't really wrap our minds around the concept of virtual currency and goods. Paying hard-earned, real-life dollars to send your friend a tiny digital duck just makes no sense to us -- and yet, it's been quite a ...
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Manu Ginobli looks like Roberto Benigni.
Guys, I lost my phone. $700, a punch in the arm, and a land whale later I have a new one. #wompwomp
shoes emerged unscathed. small miracle.
someone just dropped a burrito on my head. from atop a parking garage.
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