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SocialBuzz and VChatter Do Well on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Apps by MAU

This week’s AppData list of fastest-gaining apps by monthly active users offers a few apps, and a lot more interesting games. A couple of the games even blur the lines between gaming and general just-for-fun apps:

Top Gainers This Week

Name
MAU
Gain
Gain,%

1.
City of Wonder
5,168,037
+2,561,154
+98%

2.
SocialBuzz
12,865,178
+1,791,833
+16%

3.
Millionaire City
6,504,892
+644,030
+11%

4.
Texas HoldEm Poker
33,119,003
+618,547
+2%

5.
Quiz Planet
8,291,852
+550,311
+7%

6.
… »

SocialBuzz and VChatter Do Well on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Apps by MAU

This week’s AppData list of fastest-gaining apps by monthly active users offers a few apps, and a lot more interesting games. A couple of the games even blur the lines between gaming and general just-for-fun apps:

Top Gainers This Week

Name
MAU
Gain
Gain,%

1.
City of Wonder
5,168,037
+2,561,154
+98%

2.
SocialBuzz
12,865,178
+1,791,833
+16%

3.
Millionaire City
6,504,892
+644,030
+11%

4.
Texas HoldEm Poker
33,119,003
+618,547
+2%

5.
Quiz Planet
8,291,852
+550,311
+7%

6.
… »

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, August 30th, 2010

Another Look at a Smaller Facebook App, Galaxy Legion
Playdom Becomes Third-Largest Developer on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
CrowdStarVentures Into Android With Happy… »

ALERT: Facicons Is Spreading Facebook Emoticon Spam

Want to add emoticons to your Facebook status update? There are a million applications to accomplish this (see our list of Facebook emoticons apps), however Facicons now appears to be spreading spam on Facebook rather than friendly smiles. When you update your status with Facicons, there’s a message which states “I’ve added smileys… »

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Facebook Search Now Displaying Top “Liked” Stories from Across the Web

In today’s world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results — for Facebook and web content — based on “Likes” and shares.
Facebook appears to have quietly rolled out the beefed-up… »

New Security Features Lets Users End Active Facebook Sessions Remotely

Facebook is rolling out a new security allowing users to remotely log out of any Facebook session active on another device. If a user logs in to Facebook on a public computer or a friend’s mobile device and forgets to log out when they’re done, they can visit their Account->Account … »

Video and Retro TV Lead This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Apps

Games fill almost every top spot on this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, defined as those still under a million monthly active users. And of the four non-game apps that made the list, two are related to video.
Here’s the full top 20:

Top Gainers This Week

Name
MAU
Gain
Gain,%

1.
Lucky Train
880,337
+189,126
+27%

2.
Price… »

A Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Insights

Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy.
You have created a Facebook Fan Page. Now what? I bet these questions come to mind: “Is my page a success?” “Who is… »

Dansk it-firma vil bruge Facebook-opskrift til at slå Google og Sharepoint

Danske Podio skal konkurrere med Google Apps om at hjælpe medarbejdere i virksomheder om at arbejde sammen om projekter. Opskriften er små grupper organiseret i stil med… »