Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Facebook— tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Monday, October 18th, 2010
- Momentum Carries Forward the Apps on This Week’s List of Facebook Gainers by MAU
- Public Facebook Information Is Just Part of Larger Online Data Gray Market
- The Places: We’ll Go: How Marketers Can Use Facebook’s New Location Features
- Causes Raises $9 Million in Funding
- Announcing Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011 – Coming January 25th in San Francisco
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
- LivingSocial Acquires Urban Escapes, Expands Into Trip Planning
- Top 20 Gaining Facebook Pages: YouTube, Eminem, Shakira, and “The Simpsons”
- Loopt’s Location App Now Displays, Publishes Facebook Places Check-ins
- Facebook Changes Photo Memories to No Longer Show Your Ex-Boyfriends or Ex-Girlfriends
- Facebook Groups: A Consumer Feature that Doubles as Tool for Brand Marketers?
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
- Gifting Apps Stand Out on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Apps by DAU
- Facebook’s New Download Your Information Feature: What You Get
- Print Facebook Photos at Target Through Kodak Picture Kiosks – But at What Resolution?
- Venture Firm Kleiner Perkins to Host “Social Web” Press Event at Facebook Tomorrow
- Facebook Offers New Drag-and-Drop Interface for Recording Photos and Albums
- Facebook Files Lawsuits Against Spammers, App Developer
- Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job Board: CrowdStar, Atari, KlickNation, & More
- Facebook Asks Users to Remove Special Characters and Multiple Languages From Their Names
Thursday, October 21th, 2010
- Thailand May Be Facebook’s Next Big Asian Market
- Live-blog: Kleiner Perkins Launches $250 Million sFund at Facebook
- Facebook Offers Canvas Encryption Proposal to Fix the User ID Issue
- Facebook Spends $120,000 on Lobbying in Thrid Quarter 2010
- Kleiner’s Bing Gordon to Lead $250M Fund Focused on the “Social Web”
- Facebook Places Users Can Now Tag Friends in Pre-Existing Check-Ins
- Facebook Groups – a Tool for Enterprise?
- Mappr Lets Users Share Their Location with Facebook Groups
Friday, October 22th, 2010
- Profile Analyzers Feature Strongly on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Apps
- With Its Facebook Marketing Business Growing, Buddy Media Raises $23 Million to Fund Expansion
- Facebook Prompts Users with Few Likes to Add More Pages
- Apple’s iPhoto’11 Includes Sharing and Privacy Integrations with Facebook
- Facebook Roundup: Zynga, Lawsuits, Chrome, Taxes, Glitches, Campaigns, Kids and the Navy
Source: Inside Social Games
Sunday, October 24, 2010