Pygmies in the Amazonian rain forest are all well aware of the addictive and widespread Facebook game Farmville, so I won’t insult your intelligence by explaining what it is. However, if you thought you were Farmville’s biggest fan, think again. Google has been been quietly investing in Zynga, the developers behind Farmville, to the tune of around $150m. Zynga has also been building venture capital from a number of other firms, including $150m from Softbank Capital and $180m from Digital Sky Technologies. What does Zynga plan to do with all this capital? How could they possibly become more pervasive…

Seems everybody’s just about had it up to here with Facebook, and it looks like this is the case with developers as much as it is with users. Zynga, the developer of Farmville, has warned its employees to brace themselves for a possible imminent break from the social networking giant. That’s kind of cool. Sounds like a spaceship about to break away from an asteroid, or something. Anyway, tensions between the two companies have been rising, and, due to Facebook’s apparent bullying of Zynga to sign a contract which would bind Farmville almost exclusively to Facebook, Zynga threatening to leave,…

First off, there really is no end to the tide of Internet startups with names that sound like cartoon sound effects, is there? Just sayin’. Anyway, Zynga (see?) is laughing all the way to the bank; according to equity analysts, the company would be worth $5,000,000,000 if it went public. Yes. That’s five billion dollars.

 Jeezus. If you’re not familiar with the name, Zynga is to blame for the Facebook plagues games timewasters Farmville and Mafia Wars. With over 237 million active users a month, each one shamefully spending real-world money on fake-world goods, Zynga is beating even…