I’ve been thinking – very little, of course, as is my wont – about Flattr, the new service that will allow consumers of free web content (that’s you) to give direct financial support to the providers of said content (me, for instance). I think we can all agree the name is asinine, but is there anything to this idea? Does it hold Wattr? Let’s find out.

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If you’re a Facebook user, chances are you’ve noticed a friend’s post, and said one of the following things to yourself:

“Goddammit, enough with the Farmville!”

OR

“Goddammit, enough with the Foursquare!”

In the case of the former, you may have said that about Mafia Wars, Petville, Roller Coaster Kingdom, or Cafe World instead. In the case of the latter, it may have been GoWalla instead of Foursquare (yeah, right). Either case is – let’s face it – fucking irritating. You don’t care that your buddy just built a stable or that they just went to Starbucks for the third time today. But today we will settle the question once and for all: are Zynga gamers bigger douchebags than Foursquare users? Red corner, you ready? Blue corner? * ding ding * Let’s get it on!

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