No one can really say who is Silicon Valley’s next billionaire, but you can guarantee that Zynga’s Mark Pincus will be somewhere at the beginning of that line. Pincus, who is 44 years old and is no stranger to running companies, sold his first venture for $38 million, and is on the move to taking Zynga, the gaming company behind FarmVille and Mafia Wars, to new levels that have rarely been seen by anyone other than EA, Blizzard, and other gaming conglomerates.

“I thought, it’s 2007, and this can’t be all that the Internet is meant to be,” Pincus told New York Times, as he compared eBay, Amazon, Google, and Yahoo to “a garage sale, a bookstore, a search engine and a portal.”

You can now add an “arcade” to your list as Zynga is set to earn $500 million this year in revenue. The gaming company makes money by offering virtual goods for actual money in its FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and recently launched FrontiersVille (just to name a few).

The NY Times also points out that it took Facebook four years to reach 100 million users, and it has only taken Zynga two-and-a-half. The relationship between the social networking website and its largest application creator hasn’t always been good. Tensions have mounted when Facebook blocked Zynga’s apps from posting so many “News Feeds” on user’s “Walls” which made some of Zynga’s traffic drop significantly. Then, Facebook introduced a “Credits” system for purchasing items through the site’s applications and wanted to keep 30% of the profits, which was eventually settled out of court between Facebook and Zynga.

“Zynga has the most revenue, growth and happy customers of any three-year-old venture we’ve ever backed,” said a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers, the capitol firm that has backed Amazon and Google. Mark Pincus talks of building a “digital skyscraper,” a company whose services are so indispensable that someday we will look back and wonder how we managed to do without it.

Two recent patents show that Sony Computer Entertainment, which makes the PlayStation franchise, is considering moving from split-screen multi-player to stereoscopic screen sharing.

What the hell is “stereoscopic screen sharing” you ask? Instead of having to use a split-screen when more than one person plays on the same television set, stereoscopic screen sharing allows two individuals to see two different screens when they wear the appropriate eye glasses.

The glasses, shown in the patents, look like they have ear buds which gives the illusion that each player will have their own separate audio feed. The only drawback is that you would need a 3DTV to take advantage of the features if implemented by Sony.

This would be a cool thing for gamers as cheating would be harder to do as you could not see your friend’s screen if playing against each other as reported Kotaku.

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