Archive for december, 2009

Given the sheer amount of time that individuals spend on Facebook and Twitter, it’s easy to make jokes about the hypnotic nature of social networking. However, real-life hypnotherapist Chris Hughes plans on bringing together hypnotism and the Internet in a very real way.
On January 4, 2010, at 20:30 GMT (that’s 3:30 p.m. EST and 12:30… »

Web measurement firm Experian Hitwise said in a brief note this week that Facebook was, for the first time ever, the most trafficked site in the United States on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day last week.
We followed up with the company to get more details on what this exactly looked like. Here’s the graph it… »

Facebook has been around for more than five years, but it hit critical mass and exploded in 2009. As the new decade begins, the fallout is blowing over the entire web. Facebook Connect is everywhere, in case you hadn’t heard. We’re talking 60 million users on 80,000 web sites.
The Facebook web site itself has… »

Over the holidays I received a new country Facebook song in my inbox. The song is written and produced by Carter Hamric, an unsigned country musician based out of Huntsville, Alabama. I have to admit, this song is pretty catchy. The last Facebook song to come along had close to 4 million… »

Politiken.dk har leveret en flod af Facebookhistorier i året, der… »

Facebook and MySpace app maker and advertising network RockYou isn’t having a great December. Earlier this month, 32 million passwords were compromised by a hacker going by the alias of “igigi.” That’s more than half of RockYou’s monthly active users.
The password attack, carried out through an SQL injection and the passwords stolen from an unencrypted… »

Crunchyroll has until recently been a destination site that runs Japanese animation videos and other Asian media content licensed for international audiences. But it’s beginning to create social games as a way to promote this content, with the first one being the only official application for Naruto, a long-running manga and anime series about a young… »

RockYou, one of the largest Facebook application developers, has spent the past few months shifting its focus to social gaming. One of the company’s latest games, Zoo World, has more than tripled in the past month, growing from 3.1 million to over 9.9 million monthly active users. With the rapid growth, one would… »

The maker of popular Facebook and MySpace apps — RockYou — is hit with a class-action suit, accusing it of employing such a poor data security system that its 32 million customers’ e-mail and password information was easily stolen by a… »

To most observers, 2009 marked the year Twitter conquered the world. Yet it wasn’t the only social media company that grew like wildfire. There’s another that grew even more rapidly, adding over 200 million new users and raising $200 million dollars — double that of Twitter’s most recent round.
2009 was a breakout year for Facebook,… »