facebook application development

06, Dec, 10

Facebook Profile Redesign Will Coax More Data From Users: An In-Depth Review

Posted by Josh Constine, under Advertising, Development, Facebook, MySpace, Open Graph, Pages, Privacy, Profile

Facebook has released a major redesign of the user profile which makes more profile info, photos, and friends immediately visible. A single panel navigation system, image-accompanied Likes, Friendship Page previews, and the ability to tag friends in your work, school, and sports info are also new. While some features have been stripped out, profiles are [...]

29, Nov, 10

MySpace’s New Facebook Connection Starts to Grow

Posted by Eric Eldon, under AppData, Applications, Connect, Development, MySpace

Following an initial integration with Facebook at the end of August, where MySpace let users share status updates and other information to Facebook but not the other way around, it introduced a way to share Facebook profile data back to the site in order to build out users’ interests. That effort is starting to pay [...]

18, Nov, 10

MySpace’s “Mashup with Facebook” Ports Likes to Populate Its Stream

Posted by Josh Constine, under Connect, Facebook, MySpace, Pages

Today, Myspace announced ”Mashup with Facebook” allowing users to port their Facebook Likes to Myspace to “create a personalized stream of entertainment content.” By offering new users signing up through Facebook Connect a way to populate their stream, users are more likely to stay engaged until they can establish friendships on the network. Meanwhile, existing Myspace [...]

16, Nov, 10

Facebook Connect Appears as Sign-Up Option in MySpace Redesign

Posted by Sara Inés Calderón, under Business, Connect, Facebook, MySpace

As part of its big new site redesign, MySpace has introduced a new Facebook integration that is supposed to let you sign up for MySpace using Facebook Connect. The feature isn’t currently working — you click on the Login with Facebook button, give MySpace extended permissions to access Facebook data, and then nothing happens. But the [...]

22, Oct, 10

Facebook Roundup: Zynga, Lawsuits, Chrome, Taxes, Glitches, Campaigns, Kids and the Navy

Posted by Sara Inés Calderón, under Advertising, Applications, Business, Development, Facebook, Google, Government, International, Legal, Metrics, Mobile, MySpace, Policy, Politics, Privacy

Followup on the Story About Public Information Being Leaked – The Wall Street Journal discovered in an investigation that Facebook applications were inadvertently leaking URLs to third-parties that included user identification numbers. The story was overhyped, considering that the data was already publicly accessible, but some members of Congress are interested now, and so are [...]

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 [...]

01, Oct, 10

Facebook Roundup: Nielsen, Ping, Zuckerberg, Facebook Phone, Data, Microsoft, Security and India

Posted by Sara Inés Calderón, under Advertising, Applications, Apps For Sale, Asia, Business, Development, E-commerce, Facebook, Government, International, Legal, Mobile, MySpace, Privacy, Security, Twitter

Facebook, Apple Will Work on Ping – Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said this week that, eventually, the company will figure out a way to work with Apple on its social music network Ping, even though the companies have failed to work out a deal to date. $100M Donation in Facebook Shares – We wrote last [...]

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 [...]

05, Sep, 10

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Posted by Christopher Mack, under Advertising, Applications, Asia, Business, Connect, Credits, Facebook, Games, International, iPhone, Mobile, MySpace, 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, August 30th, 2010 Another Look at a Smaller Facebook App, Galaxy Legion Playdom Becomes Third-Largest Developer on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU CrowdStarVentures [...]

30, Aug, 10

MySpace Now Letting Users Syndicate Status Updates to Facebook

Posted by Eric Eldon, under Facebook, MySpace

After having launched integrations with Twitter and other sites, MySpace has launched a new form of Facebook integration today. Now, it’s easy for MySpace users to syndicate their status updates on Facebook as well. The UI is available to users in a drop-down on MySpace’s status publisher, beneath the Twitter syndication feature that MySpace introduced [...]

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