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02, Nov, 10

Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: The Future of Social Gaming 2011

Posted by Justin Smith, under Advertising, Applications, Asia, Business, Connect, Credits, Development, E-commerce, Facebook, Games, Google, Hi5, International, iPhone, Legal, location, Metrics, Mobile, Monetization

2010 will be remembered as the year that games on social networks became a billion dollar business and transformed the way millions more people socialized with friends online. With an up-to-$750 million acquisition of Playdom by Disney, Playfish’s integration across Electronic Arts, the continued growth of Zynga, the rise of CrowdStar and Kabam, and continued venture investments, [...]

18, Oct, 10

Announcing Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011 – Coming January 25th in San Francisco

Posted by Justin Smith, under Advertising, Applications, Business, Connect, Credits, Development, E-commerce, Facebook, Games, Google, Hi5, International, iPhone, location, Marketing, Metrics, Mobile, Monetization, MySpace, Open Graph, Payments, Policy, VirtualGoods

January 25th | San Francisco Inside Network is proud to announce our second conference on the future of monetization on social platforms: Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011, exploring the key uncertainties and opportunities in social games and applications in 2011, happening January 25th in San Francisco. Social applications first emerged in 2007, and are today [...]

17, Oct, 10

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Posted by Christopher Mack, under AppData, Applications, Asia, Business, Connect, Credits, Facebook, Games, Hi5, International, iPhone, Payments, VirtualGoods

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, October 11th, 2010 Revisiting Warstorm, a Growing Zynga Strategy Title City Building Games Head This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU Sports City Combines City [...]

10, Oct, 10

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Posted by Christopher Mack, under Advertising, AppData, Applications, Business, Connect, Development, E-commerce, Facebook, Hi5, International, iPhone, Mobile

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, October 4th, 2010 Preview: Fantasy University on Facebook It Girl, Madden, Warstorm All Do Well on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU Playdom CEO [...]

21, Sep, 10

A Look Back at Acquisitions and Investments Around Facebook in 2010

Posted by Chris Morrison, under Business, Facebook, Google, Hi5

Like any large company, Facebook is forming an entire ecosystem of merger and acquisition activity. While Facebook itself has been buying an increasing number of small companies, primarily for talent, the market leaders and and venture capitalists operating on or around its platform have continued to make bigger deals. In our most recent Facebook Quarterly [...]

14, Sep, 10

Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: Tracking the US Virtual Goods Market 2010 – 2011

Posted by Justin Smith, under Applications, Business, Connect, Credits, Development, E-commerce, Facebook, Friendster, Games, Google, Hi5, International, iPhone, Marketing, Metrics, Mobile, Monetization, MySpace, Open Graph, OpenSocial, Payments, Places, Search, Twitter, Venture Capital, VirtualGoods

With an up-to-$750 million acquisition of Playdom by Disney, an up-to-$400 million acquisition of Playfish by Electronic Arts, the acquisition of Tapulous by Disney, and hundreds of millions of dollars in venture investments, virtual goods are impacting businesses across the media landscape. Virtual goods, and the companies that create them, may be bringing the largest [...]

20, May, 10

Facebook and Others Caught Sending User Data to Advertisers

Posted by Barb Dybwad, under Advertising, digg, Facebook, facebook privacy, Google, Hi5, LiveJournal, Marketing, MySpace, news, Privacy, social networking, Top Stories, trending, xanga, Yahoo

Facebook, MySpace and other social networks have apparently been sending personal and identifiable information about users to advertisers without consent, despite assurances to the contrary.

Large…

10, May, 10

Facebook Grows in Latin America – What it Means for Marketers and Developers

Posted by Susan Su, under Advertising, Applications, Facebook, Hi5, International, Marketing, Monetization

[Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Inside Facebook Gold, our new data and analysis membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth. Inside Facebook Gold presents weekly in-depth analysis articles exploring the most critical developments impacting the future of the Facebook ecosystem. Click here to learn more.]
More than 70% of Facebook’s users now [...]

04, Apr, 10

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Posted by Christopher Mack, under Advertising, Business, Facebook, Hi5, International, iPhone, Mobile, Monetization, MySpace, Venture Capital, VirtualGoods

From virtual collectible card characters to gardening and treasure hunting, the past week has shown us a variety of different types of new social game releases. In addition to these, we also saw a number of new investments and new metrics with the change in months, but without further delay, here are the headlines from [...]

14, Mar, 10

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Posted by Christopher Mack, under Advertising, Business, Connect, E-commerce, Facebook, Hi5, International, Monetization, MySpace, Venture Capital, VirtualGoods

It’s a week of international imports and premieres for social startups. We have seen new levels of quality in synchronous games, automated fighting titles, and even some new lessons in tycoon zoology. Here are this week’s headlines from Inside Social Games:
Monday, March 8th, 2010

CrowdStar Learns Facebook Zoology with Zoo Paradise
Mochi Media Announces Social API, $10 [...]

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