Last week Facebook ordered a restraining order on three spammers Sanford Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw for collecting user names and passwords and then logging on to their account and posting some shady content. These men broke the law by violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse act, the California Anti-Phishing Act and the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM). If any of these three men are ever caught using Facebook they could face some serious jail time.

Today a court in San Jose Calif. awarded Facebook a grand total of $711 million in a case against hacker and spammer Sanford Wallace. This man accessed many peoples accounts and sent wall posts and messages. The judge then refereed Wallace to the U.S. Attorney’s office where he will be prosecuted with criminal and federal crimes which could land him in jail.

This isn’t the first time that Facebook has gone to court regarding spam. In November Facebook won a settlement for $873 million made against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital for sending unwanted messages to users of Facebook. Facebook says “we’re hopeful that this kind of persistent pressure will act as a deterrent against those attempting to trick and annoy people on Facebook”

Google has announced that there will be an official Wave app store.

Since Google Wave is still in a closed bet not very many people have gotten the opportunity to play around with it but hopefully you, like me have watched the the Wave technology demo many times and waiting for that email from Google containing that precious invitation code.

As more and more people begin to test Wave a few more of the bugs will be squashed never to be seen again. Once that is done Google will probably begin rolling out more invites. But Wave doesn’t only need front end users it also needs more developers.

With the introduction of a new app store you can expect to see more developers join in on the fun, some with the hopes of making money and some just hoping to make the next big thing.

If you were a developer would you join Google Wave now that it has an app store?