Casual Games, Hardcore Dough

Since their grand debut in 1997, social networking sites have drawn hundreds of millions of users to communities such as Facebook and MySpace. Recently, casual game applications have sprung up within these networking powerhouses, allowing players to compete in wildly popular game variations such as Scrabulous or Texas Hold’em Poker. Half a million users on Facebook have taken up the Scrabulous challenge, and plenty of others kill time in any of the site’s over 500 other game-related applications.
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