There are thousands of apps that went from zero to millions through the years that facebook's platform has existed. Mostly it was through spam, but some were go

There are thousands of apps that went from zero to millions through the years that facebook's platform has existed. Mostly it was through spam, but some were good at manipulating the crowds (snowballs, yawn). That's how zynga grew to be what it is. Why the sudden attention now? I guess this is it: lack of anything interesting in technology lately.