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You too can monetize your obsession - Adobe, Facebook partner to create Flash developer tools | Web Services | Macworld

The applications will use Adobe's Flash platform and the new ActionScript 3 Client Library for Facebook the two companies developed together.

According to Wikipedia, Mob Wars is a role-playing Facebook application which allows players to engage in Mafia style wars with each other and which has become the most lucrative application on Facebook and the first to net $1m per month in revenue.

So I finally did it. I joined facebook. I had already passed through college at the time when facebook started to gain steam, so I am a bit late on to the bandwagon. According to the wikipedia, the site was launched back in February of 2004, but up until September of 2006, membership was restricted to students and certain other organizations. I joined on December 8th 2007.

I never thought I was a person who could bear spending my entire day not just on my computer, but on the web. But the advent of web 2.0 social networking, satellite tv, and unemployment has made the whole thing all too easy. Let me explain:

Snotty top tier college kids might moan, "Remember when Facebook was elite?" I know this, because a friend at UPenn belonged to an obnoxious Facebook group of the same name. Facebook was started by a Harvard undergrad. After Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Columbia were hooked in to the fbook network.