InsideFacebook.com

Facebook Credits Now the First Payment Option in FarmVille, Facebook’s Biggest App

By admin

The number of big social applications that use Facebook’s virtual currency, Credits, continues to rise. The latest is Zynga’s smash hit farming game, FarmVille, the largest application on Facebook with nearly 84 million users a month.
The integration is pretty straightforward, as you can see from the screenshot below. Credits is shown as the first of… »

Facebook Adding App Bookmark Reordering to the Home Page Soon

By admin

Since the new Facebook home page launched a few weeks ago – making a few application bookmarks more prominent on the home page – one of the usability issues with the new design is that it’s been difficult for users to reorder bookmarks on their home page. Instead of allowing reordering, Facebook has only allowed… »

Facebook’s Coming Location Service: Feature for Users, Platform for Apps

By admin

Facebook is going to launch its location-based features “next month,” according to a report today from the New York Times — a confirmation of many months of rumors that we and other publications have been hearing. Sources close to the company shared specific knowledge of the tightly-wrapped project, including a clear… »

Department Stores Make Sales Pitches on Facebook

By admin

­Women make up the majority of Facebook users and their presence on the social network has not gone unnoticed by department stores, who have set up shop on Facebook (literally, in some cases) in an effort to foment a relationship with their customers as fans. We recently reported that women in the U.S. constituted over… »

Facebook Adds 36 Companies to Its Preferred Developer Consultants List

By admin

Facebook has expanded its list of “preferred” developers who help brands, celebrities and a wide variety of organizations build applications, Facebook Connect integrations, or custom features for Facebook Pages. This means more visibility for the 36 newly added developer-consultants, so maybe some new clients for them. There are now 50 companies listed, more than half… »

Pacific Rim Countries Lead Facebook Growth in Asia for February, 2010

By admin

Large populations and growing internet connectivity are pushing Asia’s Pacific Rim countries to the forefront on Facebook. Our latest stats, for the month of February, show Indonesia and the Philippines picking up a combined three million users, more than the combined growth of the entire mainland.
The Philippines, in particular, are… »

Athletes, Musicians, TV and Shoes on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Pages

By admin

A couple athletes, a handful of musicians, two shoe companies and a few television shows, plus list regulars made up this week’s Top 20 Facebook Pages. Zynga’s Mafia Wars continues its domination of the number 1 spot with almost 10 million fans, but its partner in crime for the past few weeks, Texas Hold’em Poker,… »

Big Quizzes Go Offline in This Week’s List of Top Growing Apps by Monthly Active Users

By admin

Is it enforcement day for Facebook? Several of the top placers on this week’s AppData list of fastest-gaining apps by monthly active users (MAU) redirect to Facebook’s front page, indicating that the network may have at last taken notice of, and action on, shady tactics used by a particular developer.
We’re not… »

Boomerang Networks Taking the Covers Off Its Advertising Offers Service

By admin

Boomerang Networks has spent the last year quietly building an advertising offers service designed to take on established players like Offerpal and Super Rewards. Now, it’s taking the covers off.
Every offers company is busy trying to optimize which ads appear to which users. Boomerang’s offer wall includes thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons so users can vote… »

War Veterans Gather, Get Help on Facebook

By admin

In the years following U.S. troop deployments to Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, thousands of former soldiers, both men and women, have returned home to to continue their civilian lives. Some of these veterans return physically injured or paralyzed, others with psychological issues. As these veterans adjust to the civilian life, Facebook has… »

Translator

English flagDanish flag      
By N2H