Facebook application acquisitions are a lot like domain name sales: out of every 10 that happen in any given week, only 1 gets publicly announced. While only a few Facebook application sales have been publicly reported (Inside Facebook has broken the news on the following sales: Pieces of Flair and Speed Racing to RockYou for […]
This is a guest post by Jesse Stay, author of FBML Essentials and blogger at staynalive.com.
Facebook has provided a number of tools that make it a powerful tool not just for individuals, but for businesses and brands as well. It’s no secret that Facebook has many very powerful tools that will help spread your brand […]
comScore released its June 2008 social networking numbers last week. After taking a little bit of a deeper look at social networking over the past 6 months, I think there are some really interesting trends here:
Overall, Social Networking total audience grew 64 million (12%) during the last 6 months. (That’s over twice as fast as […]
One of the big announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference last week was the launch of access to Facebook’s translation tool for third party developers. The tool itself was developed by Facebook to translate the main site and uses a crowd-sourcing model: users suggest translations in context of using the site, and the translations approved […]
As a heads up to developers, Facebook noted today that 5% of users have now migrated over to the redesigned version of the site. Some users are opting in, and other users are reporting being automatically migrated during the last several days.
Facebook has said that everyone will be moved over with a “few weeks” of […]
Think Facebook knows a lot about you from all the information you enter into the site? Well it now appears that Facebook may soon know a lot more than you thought. In the past few days Facebook added a new feature on the Friends page which enables you to view “Friends without Facebook […]
The Financial Times is reporting that “a British businessman has been awarded £22,000 ($44,000) in damages from a Cformer school friend who created a fake profile of him on the website.” The defendant had been sued by Mathew Firsht, the victim of a libelous act. According to the Financial Times, a group had […]
Yesterday Brad Stone reported that Hasbro has filed a lawsuit against Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla, the developers behind the popular Scrabulous application. Just last week the company launched the legitimate version of Scrabble on Facebook. The application has attracted over 8,000 active daily users so far but it will be a long […]
Yesterday at f8, Facebook officially launched Facebook Connect, a JavaScript client library and API for third party websites to integrate with Facebook more powerfully than they could with previous APIs for third party websites.
With Facebook Connect, webmasters can allow users to authenticate with their Facebook credentials, find friends who also use your site, and publish […]
In the past month, many major application developers have been on the receiving end of policy enforcement measures handed down by Facebook. Here’s an update the current status of each application, including a look at the traffic repercussions of the measures taken.
Top Friends (Slide)
On June 26th, Top Friends was the first major app to disappear […]
In a move that many have been expecting for a long time, Hasbro, owner of the popular Scrabble game for the past 60 years, has filed a lawsuit against the developers of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. Scrabulous, which sports over 500,000 daily active users, is one of the most popular applications on Facebook, and […]
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CNBC reported this morning that in a call with analysts, Microsoft SVP Satya Nadella announced that the company has reached a web search and search advertising agreement with Facebook. Microsoft PR says the deal will go live by the end of the year.
This is a big announcement, as Facebook has to date provided no web […]
Yesterday Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Connect and with it the opportunity for sites around the web to easily integrate into the largest “social graph” on the web. The pre-f8 hype along with MySpace’s Data Availability initiative and Google’s Friend Connect program ended up muting much of the buzz that was intended for Facebook […]
How valuable is that little search box at the top of Facebook? Microsoft definitely thinks it’s worth a lot and has now entered a partnership with Facebook to provide search according to Searchengineland.com. The partnership will bring Microsoft Live search results to the Facebook site. Two days ago I was talking to […]