Today, tens of millions of people around the world will log in to Facebook - and engross themselves in the minutiae of crop rotation and animal husbandry. They are all playing Farmville, a cute, colourful game where players take on the role of a farmer - a game whose extraordinary success is forcing experts to rethink the future of the internet and social media. Farmville is a fairly innocuous concept, one that draws heavily on the traditional world of board games for inspiration. Given the task...
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