the future does not need us
The Wachowski brothers and James Cameron totally misunderstood the rise of the machines. It's more about cash than world domination.The right computer can already slap around humans at chess, checkers, backgammon, Scrabble, bridge and, yes, Connect Four. Now the bots are taking to poker.
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Facebook may be the hottest development platform on the Web, but it has yet to answer a very important question: How are companies making money off
Food Fight and
SuperPoke? After it was revealed that the
"Where I've Been" app wasn't sold for $3 million, one has to wonder if these developers are gaining anything more than exposure. Well, a tipster claims that one Facebook app,
Free Daily $5,000 Poker Tourney, is making money. Naturally.
PurePlay's poker application requires users to download a proprietary poker client, which serves advertisements to anyone who wants to partake in its free, cash-prize tournaments. And it makes some cash off people who pay to remove ads and receive a crappy newsletter. There's a lesson for all you Facebook developers — make "applications" that are just giant advertisements for your company's real moneymaker.
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