Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Facebook— tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Monday, October 25th, 2010
- SmileyCentral Brightens Up This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Apps by MAU
- Facebook Lets Group Members Opt Out of Group Chat
- Large Business Pubs Writing More About Facebook Privacy Lately – Will That Affect Its Product Roadmap?
- Facebook Tests New Page Admin Interface with Sidebar Navigation Links
- Facebook Game Discovery Feed Stories Now Show Other Friends Who Play
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
- Top 20 Gaining Facebook Pages: Zynga, SpongeBob, MTV, Disney and Music
- PayPal Introduces More Frictionless Virtual Goods Payment System, Facebook Included
- Best Buy, Walmart Follow Target as Distributor of Pre-Paid Facebook Credits Gift Cards
- Plastic Jungle Lets Users Instantly Convert Gift Cards Into PayPal Funds or Facebook Credits
- Majority of DST’s Stakes in Facebook, Zynga Remain Private, Despite Mail.ru IPO
- BigDates Solutions’ Birthday Calendar Gets a Strategic Partner: American Greetings
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
- Phrases Returns, Badoo Arrives on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Apps by DAU
- Now Available: The Facebook Marketing Bible November 2010 Edition
- The 25 Most Liked Pages on Facebook, Fall 2010
- Facebook Launches Spam Filter for Wall Posts to Pages
- Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job Board: MetroGames, Playfish, Posit Science & More
- Facebook Tries to Jumpstart Vietnam Despite Blockages
- Facebook Files for Patent on Inferential Ad Targeting
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
- Disney Collects 69 Million Facebook Fans, and Counting
- More Details on Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011 – January 25th in San Francisco
- Facebook Announces Friendship Pages That Show Friends’ Mutual Content
- Walmart Opts-In to Group Deals Market Via Facebook Page
- Facebook Users in Brazil and India Can Syndicate Their Profiles to Orkut
- Facebook Testing Places Check-In Incentive Deals and Rewards
- Informal Survey: “The Social Network” Polarized User View of Zuckerberg but Not Facebook
- Facebook Looks to Hire Global Head of Agency Relations
Friday, October 29th, 2010
- My Kingdom Rises, Falls on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Apps
- Facebook Provides Page Updates to Search Engine Yandex in Exchange for Exposure in Russia
- Mixi Profile Link Lets Users Syndicate Facebook Content to the Japanese Social Network
- A Look at Halloween-Themed Apps and Pages on Facebook
- Facebook Acquires Drop.io, Founder Lessin Joins the Company
- Facebook Updates User ID Policy, Puts Six Month Block on Rogue Application Developers
- Roundup: Murphy, Facebook Phone, Bit.ly, Groups, Lobbying, Places and Breakups
Source: Inside Social Games
Sunday, October 31, 2010