Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Facebook— tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Monday, August 16th, 2010
- Big Prize Giveaways Focuses on Facebook Promotions
- Facebook Buys Chai Labs, a Semantic Search Startup Founded by a Former Adsense Leader
- Facebook Plans to Add Image Polls to Questions Application
- “Better Facebook” Browser Extension Lets Users Customize Their Facebook Experience
- Amid All the New Hires, a Few Early Facebook Employees Slip Out the Door
- We’ll Be on Location for Facebook’s Wednesday Press Event
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
- Top 20 Facebook Pages: Music, TV and More People with 10 Million Fans
- Facebook Third-Largest US Video Site Behind Google and Yahoo
- Facebook Apps in Taiwan Dominated by Younger Users, with Some Surprises
- Facebook May or May Not Be Growing As Quickly This Summer, Third Party Measurements Show
- Shopkick iPhone App Lets Users Earn Facebook Credits for Walking Inside Businesses
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
- Payvment Builds E-Commerce Into Facebook, Launches Enterprise API
- Facebook Rolls Out New Look For The Third-Party Like Button
- Facebook Anticipated to Launch Long-Awaited Location Features Tonight
- Facebook Status Update Tagging Now Automatically Suggests Matches for People, Pages and Other Content
- Live-Blog: Facebook Launches Places Location Service, Partners with Third Parties
- New Facebook for iPhone Application with Places Coming Tonight
- Facebook Introduces New Privacy Norms Around Location With Tagging
- Facebook Taking the Platform Approach to Location With Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, Booyah
- Facebook’s Places Location Service Is Using Maps from Bing
- With Facebook Places, Serendipitous Interactions with Friends Will Increase
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
- Initial Facebook Places APIs Going Live for Platform Developers Thursday Afternoon
- Facebook Job Postings this Week: Recruiting in India and Seattle, Legal and Online Operations
- Facebook Moving Toward IFrames Over FBML for Canvas Apps and Page Tabs
- Facebook Platform Roadmap Update: App Tabs on User Profiles, Rest API to be Deprecated Soon
- Facebook Places: A Guided Tour of Features and Privacy Settings
- Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job Board: AdParlor, NaturalMotion, EA, & More
- Recent Facebook Apps in the United States Target Niche Audiences for Growth, Monetization
Friday, August 20th, 2010
- Chinese, Arabic, Spanish Language Apps in This Week’s Top Emerging Facebook List
- How Marketers and Businesses Can Start Using Facebook Places
- Marketplace For Facebook and Oodle iPhone App Launches, Has Room to Improve
- RIM Updates Facebook For Blackberry App With Confusing Push Notifications
- Facebook Roundup: Apple, Places, Hot Potato Acquisition and More
Source: Inside Social Games