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Been busy this week? Missed a few headlines, and don’t want to sift through older content? For those that may have missed out, be sure to check out our Inside Social Games headlines from this past week – tracking the latest information in social games and platforms.
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While a number of games have graduated from our up-and-comers list to become apps with more than 1 million users, there are quite a few more to take their places.
At the top is Snowball Fight , a simple snowball-throwing app that encourages people to “throw snowballs” at each ...
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With Thanksgiving less than a week away – and one week until Black Friday – brands, local businesses and non-profits can use their Facebook pages to get shoppers ready for the holiday season, promote Thanksgiving dinners, recipes and ideas, and even help feed their communities.
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Zynga has hit a new milestone on Facebook, and meanwhile, it has just launched a couple ways to increase its presence on the web: A stand-alone site for its hit game FarmVille and a new browser toolbar for Mafia Wars.
The San Francisco company now has more than 200 million total monthly ...
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As we’ve seen in other parts of the world , Facebook continues to grow by more monthly active users every month in Latin America. This past month, it grew by 3.9 million users to reach 39.3 million monthly actives in the region, according to our Global Monitor report . This is up from the ...
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More movie companies are using Facebook to reward fans and followers of their films by offering everything from early trailers to choosing where a movie is released. Disney is the latest to cater to the Facebook crowd, giving fans of its upcoming “Alice in Wonderland” remake a ...
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We’ve been covering Facebook’s gradual rollout of the Facebook Ads APIs in recent weeks. Now, we’re beginning to see the first tools built on top of the APIs come to market. This week, two London-headquartered agencies, 77Agency and Techlightenment , are showing off ...
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The entire social gaming industry has been criticized in recent weeks for running deceptive advertising offers. But how bad has the problem been, really? After all, low-quality ads for weight loss, teeth whitening, and a range of other dubious promises run in major ad networks and appear on ...
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Facebook is the largest photo sharing service in the world, with over 2 billion photos uploaded by users each month. So when the company is testing a brand new way for users to get most of those photos onto the site, it’s a big change.
Although the current photo uploading tools are ...
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Facebook Page owners have been able to target “Updates” – Facebook’s term for message blasts that Page owners can send to fans that show up in a secondary tab in the Inbox – by age, sex, and location for a long time. Now, Facebook has added a new way for Page ...
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Performance advertising conglomerate Adknowledge is adding more banner advertising to its inventory, starting on Friday when it absorbs SocialMedia’s ad network on Facebook. The latter company is moving away from that business completely as it focuses on “social ads” — ...
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A few weeks ago, Facebook launched a new “widgets center” for businesses and users to create Facebook widgets for their websites or blogs. Originally in the widgets center were the Profile Badge , Photo Badge , Fan Box , Live Stream Box , and Page Badge . Now, Facebook is promoting ...
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Last night, Facebook announced that after a week-long “notice and comment” period, it has decided to adopt the updated privacy policy it initially proposed in late October .
Because the proposed policy did not receive over 7,000 comments — the threshold Facebook laid out in ...
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Facebook’s recently-redesigned home page features a top stories view of the most interesting items that your friends are sharing, plus a live feed view of the most recent items. And both views just got a seemingly small new update: A simplified interface for hiding whoever is sharing ...
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We’ve just started publishing leaderboards of the Facebook applications with the most daily active users over on AppData . Just as we have been doing posts looking at which apps have gained the most monthly active users each week, we’re going to start doing posts looking at which ...
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There’s no doubt that Tyler Durden would have some issues with Facebook, but a new Connect integration is now out promoting the 10th anniversary of the film featuring Chuck Palahniuk’s unforgettable character.
The Fight Club film adaptation of Palahniuk’s novel is ...
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It’s been about three weeks since Facebook announced its Platform roadmap for the rest of 2009 through early 2010. It series of 19 changes primarily affecting the mechanics of and rules around Facebook’s viral communication channels that applications use to spread and engage ...
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There are a couple dimensions to Zynga’s new $15.2 million funding. One is time. VentureBeat and peHUB reported the company’s latest regulatory filing earlier today. But, we heard rumors about “another round” of some sort that it was raising, back in April of this year.
One source, who ...
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As expected, November 17th is indeed the day that Xbox Live goes social with its latest big update . The popular online console service now has integration into leading social sites Facebook and Twitter.
Currently, the integration for Facebook is not the complete version, so you won’t be ...
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More brands are moving on to Facebook, using pages to engage with users — but brands need to make sure they can manage the free-wheeling nature of user discussions without getting overrun by spam or inappropriate content. LiveWorld is the latest company to try to solve these problems. ...
