How often do you find yourself watching TV with your iPhone either in your hand or within reach? If you’re like me, the answer is most of (if not all of) the time. And that’s exactly what the folks over at Viggle are counting on. Introducing the new Viggle iPhone app. It allows you to [...]
As big fans of the Apple TV, we’re making it our business to get the word out about how great Apple’s so-called “hobby” device is for a variety of purposes. The bottom line is that we can’t live without our little $99 wonder device, so it’s no surprise when someone like Apple CEO Tim Cook [...]
Without even having to build any of its own devices, Facebook was everywhere at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As more products are designed to connect to the Internet, developers are integrating Facebook into everything from televisions … Continue reading →
Recent and older films made up a big chunk of our list of the fastest growing Pages by the number of Facebook Likes this week. There were TV shows, networks and personalities on the list, musicians, a few book-related Pages, … Continue reading
Facebook is accepting applications from engineers to join a new desktop software team at its Seattle office. The responsibilities of the “Software Engineer, Desktop Software” position we noticed last week include creating Mac and/or Windows desktops apps and building server-side APIs. Based on several trends and the company’s principles we believe the new team could [...]
Cable television’s USA Network recently launched an app called Chatter that allows a specific TV show’s viewers to converse with fellow fans and engage with a streams of official content aggregated from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Flickr, live chat and forums. Chatter’s synced web and Facebook apps provides a destination for real-time conversation and auxiliary content [...]
At the TV of Tomorrow conference today in San Francisco, Facebook’s Director of Media Partnerships Justin Osofsky revealed that 275 million users have Liked a TV show on Facebook. Those that have Like an average of six shows, which means there’s been roughly 1.65 billion Likes of TV shows. 17 of the 100 most Liked [...]
We saw the return of the Omar ibn al-Khattab, a key leader in early Islam, at the top of our list of the 20 fastest growing Facebook Pages this week. Additionally there were some tech companies, lots of musicians, the Converse shoe company, more sports and some entertainment-related Pages. The Pages on our list grew [...]
Our featured Facebook campaigns this week employed a variety of tactics to draw Likes, customers and generate news feed items. Expedia created a detailed vacation contest application to draw in users, IKEA in the United Kingdom is uses a battle of the sexes voting system in its new campaign, The Weather Channel is offering a [...]
Several dating, horoscopes, video and basketball-related applications were on the list of top 20 apps growing by monthly active users this week. Our list is compiled using AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook, and covers those that gained the most users in the past seven days. Top Gainers This Week [...]
