Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods.
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Monday, March 21st, 2011
- Outfit7′s Lila, Chicken Balls, and Tapper World Tour Mark Newer Titles Atop iOS Paid Charts
- Facebook Lets Users Check In to Events via the Touch Site, Soon the iPhone
- LiquidSpace Uses a Mobile-Only Strategy To Seed a Global Market for Working Space
- Nexon Brings KartRider Rush to iPhone
- Z2Live Becomes Yet Another Mobile Gaming Startup to Scoop Up More Venture Funding
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
- Angry Birds Rio for iOS: A Movie Promotion, and a Quality New Version of the Smash Hit
- Amazon’s Appstore Aims to Compensate For Android Marketplace’s Weaknesses
- Emerging Apps on The iOS Top Grossing List: Overkill, Angry Birds Rio & Everyday
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
- Fueling 1.5 Million App Downloads a Day, Tapjoy Pushes for Exclusivity With Publishing Program
- Emerging iOS Apps: Flowpaper, Sucker Punch Mech Gunner Break Into Top Free Charts
- A Spate of Mobile-Related Funding News: Yobongo, Flipboard & More
- Warner Bors. Sucker Punch on iPad Doesn’t Quite Throw A Mean One
- Amazon Appstore’s Window of Opportunity Around In App Payments
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
- New Hires in Mobile: EA Mobile, Gameloft, Halfbrick, & More
- Unique Art & Mechanics Mix with Ink Ball HD on iPad
- Android Marketplace’s In-App Billing Finally Out To Consumers Next Week
Friday, March 25th, 2011
- FarmVille Becomes iOS’ Second Highest-Grossing App on Farm Cash Sale
- AppDog Puts an Interesting Spin on Pay-Per-Install With Facebook Credits
- Mobile App Roundup: Music, Farms, Square Enix & More
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
- Digital Chocolate’s New Game Zombie Lane: Innovating Within the Facebook Sim Genre
- Fortune League: Fantasy Sports League, EverQuest2 Style
- Mafia Wars, Slotomania on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
- A Bit Lucky Puts Nexon’s $5 Million Toward New Games, on Facebook and Beyond
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
- MinoMonsters Brings Pokemon-Style Battling to Facebook
- Last Week to Pre-Order Inside Virtual Goods: Profiling the Social Gaming Middle Market 2011
- Welcome AJ Glasser — Inside Social Games’ New Lead Writer
- Amazon’s Appstore Aims to Compensate For Android Marketplace’s Weaknesses
- SocialVibe Nets $20 Million in Funding Following Success With Ads in Social Games
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
- Fueling 1.5 Million App Downloads a Day, Tapjoy Pushes for Exclusivity With Publishing Program
- Mafia Wars Promotion Places It On Top Of This Week’s List of Top Growing Games by DAU
- LOLApps Expands Ravenwood Fair, Plans New Title, Shutters Other Games
- Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job Board: 6waves, NaturalMotion, & More
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
- New Hires in Social Gaming: Kabam, Happy Elements, LOLApps, & More
- Amazon Appstore’s Window of Opportunity Around In App Payments
- Deko-Deko Mail — A New Way To Play With What You Say
- Pokemon Clones Finding Users On Facebook
Friday, March 25th, 2011
- Wooga’s Diamond Dash Maeks a Mad Dash on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games
- FarmVille Becomes iOS’ Second Highest-Grossing App on Farm Cash Sale
- Review: Fortune Stones — Match-3 for a new Decade
- Social Gaming Roundup: Rome, Television, Hackers, & More
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
- Snaptu Becomes Facebook’s Third Mobile Acquisition This Year
- Dating, Horoscopes, Video and Basketball on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by MAU
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: L’Oréal, Buick, Electronic Arts, Florida’s Natural Orange Juice and State Farm
- Facebook Lets Users Check In to Events via the Touch Site, Soon the iPhone
- Beetailer Lets Ecommerce Web Stores Easily Import Products to a Facebook Page Storefront
- Platform Updates: Platform Policy Checklist, App Request Notifications Lead to Apps, HTTPS for Page Tabs, Hack Europe
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
- Facebook Ecommerce Storefront Provider 8thBridge Takes $10 Million in Funding
- Last Week to Pre-Order Inside Virtual Goods: Profiling the Social Gaming Middle Market 2011
- Facebook Tests “Related Adverts” That Target Based On Status Update and Wall Posts Content
- The Like Button Style Guide: How to Pick the Design That’s Right for Your Website
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
- Horoscopes, Phrases, Video, Basketball and iPad on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by DAU
- Facebook Redesigns Friend Request Email Notifications to Fight Spam
- Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job Board: Zynga, RealNetworks, & More
- Webtrends Apps’ New Conversion Funnel Tool Offers Some More Facebook Ad Tracking
- Spammers Can “Use Facebook as Page” to Like-Spam Posts and Comments
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Brazil, Data Centers, Mobile, Dublin and More
- Facebook Careers Postings: Mobile, Fraud, São Paulo, Austin, Asia And More
- Fontself Allows Facebook Users to Chat, With Fonts That Use Their Own Handwriting
- Facebook Redesigns Questions Product for Quick Polling and Recommendations
Friday, March 25th, 2011
- Basketball, Video, Mobile, Turkey and Promotions on This Week’s Top Emerging Facebook Apps
- How Pages Can Use the Relaunced Facebook Question Product
- Facebook Partners with Seedcamp to Incubate European Social Startups
- Facebook Hotkeys for the Home Page, Notifications, and Photos
- Facebook Roundup: New Offices, Pages, Domain Names, China, Pixazza, Underage Users, Breakup Notifier and More
Source: Inside Social Games
Sunday, March 27, 2011