The FrontierVille Game Bar is here: Get free Horshoes for installing!

Filed under: FrontierVille Want to know exactly when it’s time to greet your friends on the homestead? Zynga just released the FrontierVille game bar for both Internet Explorer 7+ and Firefox 2 and up (too bad for you Chrome lovers).

Seniors flocking to social networks: Are they playing games?

The image of social networks as a place just for teens and college kids continues to fall away thanks to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project showing older Americans using social networks in larger numbers than ever before. Over 40 percent of American Internet users 50 and older now use social networking sites, according to the study, nearly doubling their proportion from only a year ago. While young people are still the most active social networkers (86% of 18-29 year olds are on a social network), older Americans represent the fastest growing demographic for the sites

Quote of the Moment: Leave the Farmville, join the farm

“FarmVille boosters like to say that one of the game’s most important virtues is how it encourages cooperation among users. But I think that the game’s social networking aspect is where FarmVille’s limitations (and, by extension, the Internet’s limitations) are most apparent.

FarmVille beehive glitch temporarily fixed, bees staying put for now

Filed under: Farmville A few farmers have noticed that if you don’t tend to your beehives on a regular basis, you’ll be penalized by losing bees. However, a glitch this week sent bees flying even if hives were tended as required, which set farmers abuzz across the internet.

FarmVille beehive glitch temporarily fixed, bees staying put for now

Filed under: Farmville A few farmers have noticed that if you don’t tend to your beehives on a regular basis, you’ll be penalized by losing bees.

MySpace founder looks to social games

Chris DeWolfe, best known for his founding role in MySpace participated in an on-stage conversation with veteran journalist Dean Takahashi at Casual Connect in Seattle. Takahashi began by asking DeWolfe what got him interested in social games. He describes the process of having a start-up, and then working for a giant corporation.

MySpace founder looks to social games

Chris DeWolfe, best known for his founding role in MySpace participated in an on-stage conversation with veteran journalist Dean Takahashi at Casual Connect in Seattle.

Mafia Wars movie update: It ain’t happening

Filed under: Mafia Wars You know the saying, “Don’t believe everything you read”? We’re thinking of changing it slightly to go, “Don’t believe anything you read… on the Internet, at least.” Our current cynicism is based on the fallout from a recent rumor regarding development of a movie version of Facebook’s Mafia Wars game.

FarmVille: Mozilla Developers Thank Zynga for Firefox Fix

Filed under: Farmville Mozilla’s Firefox 3.6.4 came out last week on June 25th, with the team excited about a new crash protection feature meant to “reduce the number of Firefox crashes experienced by users who are watching online videos or playing games.” Ironically, this crash protection ended up crashing most of Zynga’s games (including FrontierVille ), leaving a gray error screen, and the message, ” The Adobe Flash plugin has crashed .” FarmVille Freak published a help guide for its community yesterday, shortly after the problem was officially recognized by Zynga . Players who hadn’t updated their Firefox browsers, or who use Internet Explorer were unaffected and unaware of the issue. But the multitudes who had to deal with the downtime made their voices heard, and Mozilla itself has recognized Zynga’s help in getting the Firefox browser speedily updated

PSA: Farmville used as bait in new "likejacking" scams

Filed under: Farmville It seems some internet ne’er-do-wells are trying to capitalize on the popularity of Farmville to spread spam and unsolicited messages through unwary users’ Facebook profiles. The new Internet attack, referred to as “likejacking” in the security trade, takes advantage of a security hole in Facebook’s relatively new ability to “like” any page on the web . Basically, the scam uses hidden Javascript code to turn a harmless looking link into an automatic, unsolicited post of HTML code to the clicker’s Facebook News Feed.

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