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Marie* was expecting a typical day when she arrived at her advertising job one January day [...]
Zynga’s at it again with another virtual world game, PetVille, which lets users raise a pet. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it’s extremely similar to Playfish’s most popular game, Pet Society. Zynga now has competing applications to most of Playfish’s top games and they don’t appear to be stopping. You might [...]
Zynga, the company behind hit Facebook games like FarmVille and Cafe World, is going all out with the “ville” games. While many are still getting used to the idea of FishVille, which followed close to FarmVille and YoVille, the company has gone ahead and launched a new Facebook sim game called PetVillie. According to the company, [...]
Facebook must feel good. The day after Yahoo! announced that they will soon implement Facebook Connect across all their properties, Google announced the integration of Twitter into Google Friend Connect. While there are millions of users who have logged in through Google Friend Connect, it’s somewhat of a backward model for taking on [...]
While Facebook already provides Facebook Page administrators with tools to upload their media content, there are still limitations on how fans can interact with that content. Diditz, a D.C. area company, is looking to expand on the existing features to provide Facebook Pages with a more robust toolset for engaging your fan base. [...]
(Source: http://www.computerworlduk.com )Forrester recently received a flurry of inquiries concerning social network access inside enterprises. Many firms are reluctant to deny their employees’ access to social networking sites but at the same time are worried about consequences such as malware threat, data loss, and the loss of productivity. More specifically, risks associated with social networking come in [...]
Attention DC area Facebook developers, Facebook will be hosting a Facebook Developer Garage on December 14 from 1 PM to 5 PM at the D.C. Bar Conference Center. The company wants to emphasize that marketing and business will not be discussed at the event, instead it will be strictly focused on development issues. [...]
Attention DC area Facebook developers, Facebook will be hosting a Facebook Developer Garage on December 14 from 1 PM to 5 PM at the D.C. Bar Conference Center. The company wants to emphasize that marketing and business will not be discussed at the event, instead it will be strictly focused on development issues. [...]
Yesterday Google released their annual Zeitgeist, a measure of the fastest growing search terms on the web for the year. Once again, Facebook was one of the fastest growing search terms for the year. The keyword “Facebook” was the second largest keyword globally, coming right behind “Michael Jackson” who was the most popular [...]
Yesterday Google released their annual Zeitgeist, a measure of the fastest growing search terms on the web for the year. Once again, Facebook was one of the fastest growing search terms for the year. The keyword “Facebook” was the second largest keyword globally, coming right behind “Michael Jackson” who was the most popular [...]