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How CityVille and FarmVille Hook Players Like Crack

How does Zynga produce Facebook hit after hit when game companies established on consoles and PCs like Ubisoft and Electronic Arts have failed to achieve the same outsized results?

For all of you that use facebook, don’t allow an app called “Blu Ray” access to your profile or deactivate it in your settings. Your friends will thank you for not spamming their walls.

Additionally it may be a good idea to check the Reclaim Privacy website for a neat little open-source javascript bookmark that checks your facebook privacy settings for anything that you accidentally share with the whole wide world. The only feature I’m missing at the moment is a photo scanner, but the guys that do the coding are already on it.

I just implemented a facebook “like” button into my permalink pages of my tumblr theme. I followed this guide but found out that there is a small mistake in the code of step 3. So here is my meta tag markup for step 3:

{block:PermalinkPage}<meta property=”og:title” content=”{block:PostSummary}{PostSummary} {/block:PostSummary}”>{/block:PermalinkPage}

For a demo follow this link to a permalink of this article. Additionally, if you would like to customize your “like” button, the Facebook developer pages sure do help. Also I just found a free video how I can double my Facebook likes.

Update:

As some readers mentioned in the comments having problems with the format of the their “Like” text on Facebook, I try to clarify a bit more. You may need to additonally put the following meta tag in your theme:

<meta property=”og:site_name” content=”nerdiness devours me”/>

With this and the before mentioned meta tag, the like text shown on Facebook should be: “XY likes [meta1] on [meta2]”.

I had to become a fan of this…

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