Scene It?, a DVD board game that tests your movie and general entertainment knowledge, now has it’s own Facebook edition, complete with thoroughly addictive game mechanics and additional upcoming social features that could rival some of the more popular “ville” types of games. The Facebook edition follows versions for three other platforms, which include Xbox, iPhone and of course the original DVD board game.
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Following Glympse into the integration of mobile location-sharing and Facebook, Pocket Web’s Pocket Life mobile social network now lets you see friends’ status updates and other information on a map in Facebook. There are a number of notable differences between Pocket Life and Glympse, addressed in the rest of this post.
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There are still a lot of hidden details being revealed in Apple’s upcoming iPhone OS 4.0, and some of them might including deeper integration of Facebook. In particular, there seems to be evidence that Facebook events, contacts and possibly email will be handled at the iPhone User Accounts level.
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Location-sharing applications just became even more interesting with Glympse’s real-time dynamic view of a person’s location. Glympse’s dynamic view of location trails is currently being offered through a Facebook application, and could just be the platform necessary for the killer LBS (Location-Based Services) applications to come.
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It’s April and amongst all the Earth Day and Earth Month-related events, Coca-Cola is asking Facebook users to give up their profile pics in order to raise money for Ocean Conservancy. For each Facebook user that participates by changing their profile pic as required, Coca-Cola is donating $1 to the conservancy, whom they’ve partnered with for 15 years. The conservancy is dedicated to getting rid of litter from our oceans and waterways.
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As part of their Facebook Fellowship Program, announced earlier this year, Facebook has just published the five PhD students whom they’ll be funding. According to the official announcement on the Facebook Blog today, each student selected will not only received paid tuition and fees but a few extras: a $30,000 stipend, paid conference travel and a few other unnamed “benefits.”
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Facebook’s employee numbers have been growing rapidly and it has been revealed that a significant portion of those employees are working on security issues. With over 400M users and a rich amount of information and access to computers, the draw for hackers is obvious, and the site will need the staff to fight back.
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GetJar, the second largest mobile apps store, has seen their Facebook-shortcut app garner over 50M downloads in just six months. The online store, which caters to over 200 countries and supports 1700+ handsets, is apparently second only to Apple’s App Store on iTunes.
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Ocean Lakes latest promotion is an example of a good way to leverage a brand’s Facebook Fan Page fans: with a weekend apreciation event. Of course, it helps that Ocean Lakes is one of the largest East Coast family campgrounds, so they have the venue down, though the sentiment is brilliant.
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Social media marketing platform company Vitrue has determined that the average value of a Facebook ‘fan’ is about $3.60 in equivalent media each year. This calculation is based on having one million Fan Page fans, and is not weighted for brand recognition.
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