Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Facebook— tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, July 26th, 2010
- Likeable Builds a Full-Service Social Marketing Business on Facebook
- Cadbury Launches Social Music Game to Reach Facebook Users
- USAID Promotes US International Relief Efforts on Facebook
- Facebook Has Users Identify Friends In Photos To Verify Accounts, Prevent Unauthorized Access
- Create Your Quiz Rises Fast But Falls Hard on This Week’s List of Growing Facebook Games by MAU
- New Official Facebook Page Brings Updates on Safety Issues to the News Feed
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
- Wings Brings a New Kind of Dating App to Facebook
- Facebook Introduces Page to Demonstrate Best Practices for Media Companies
- Global Brands, Celebrity and Music on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Pages
- Ford Shows Off New Explorer to Facebook Fants with Full Day Of Content
- Facebook Disables All Pencake Apps
- Amazon Recommends Products Based on Your and Your Friends’ Facebook Interests
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
- Windows Live Messenger Tops This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Apps by DAU
- Hot Potato Team Could Be Headed to Work on Facebook’s News Feed, Or Location Service, Or Questions?
- Kibboko Helps You Discover Quality iOS Applications
- Among Facebook’s Top Languages, Portuguese, Arabic, and Spanish Lead Growth
- Facebook Launches New “Questions” Application – An In-Depth Look
- Disney’s Acquisition of Playdom Is Another Symbolic Moment in the Evolution of Social Gaming
- Facebook Splits Publisher Into Status, Questions, Photos, and Links
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
- New Jobs This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: EA2D, MeYouHealth, Days of Wonder, & More
- Mazda Puts Fans Behind The Wheel Of The Mazda2 in Facebook Game DriverVille
- Facebook Hires: MIT, VMware and Anchor Intelligence
- Facebook Executives, Including Zuckerberg, Visit Capitol Hill
- Sugar6 CRM Lets Users View Facebook Profiles of Contacts, But Lacks Authorization
- Facebook Updates Policy Terms for Big Platform Applications
Friday, July 30th, 2010
- Paul the Octopus Appears on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Apps
- First Data Corporation Gets into Gifting on Facebook with eGift Social
- Growing International Populations on Facebook Are Appealing, But Still Present Challenges
- Report: Facebook IPO Still Not Coming Soon
- Facebook Has No Plans to Continue fbFund
- TechCrunch Social Currency CrunchUp: PlacePop Launches Loyalty Card App, More Companies Look at Transactions
- Facebook Roundup: Bugs, Questions, Security, Media, Messenger and More
Source: Inside Social Games
Sunday, August 1, 2010