AppData - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:23:02 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Facebook’s Strategy: Growth In Desktop, Core, Mid-Core Games Facebook has a sizable share of the games market, but it wants more. Most of the people who pay for games on Facebook are casual gamers, with titles such as King.com’s Candy Crush Saga at the forefront. But as Sean Ryan (pictured), Facebook’s director of games partnerships, discussed at the Game Developers Conference Tuesday in San Francisco, the company wants to become a bigger player in the games market through more action and console-like games.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-gdc-core-mid-core-games_b113849#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-gdc-core-mid-core-games_b113849 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113849 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:30:26 +0000 Namco: Game Over On Facebook Namco, maker of Pac-Man S and other games, announced that it is retiring its Facebook titles, sister site Inside Social Games reported Tuesday. The games will still be playable until March 19, at which point they’ll go offline. Inside Social Games noted that Namco’s Facebook games have not been popular, likely leading to their demise.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/namco-game-over-on-facebook_b112774#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/namco-game-over-on-facebook_b112774 http://allfacebook.com/?p=112774 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:34:08 +0000 Facebook Blocks Instagram-Like App Vintage Camera Facebook has not been hesitant to cut off data to applications that don’t share back, as Vine and Yandex discovered recently. Now it has blocked a photo app — Vintage Camera — with filters similar to Facebook’s Instagram, claiming that the app has received overwhelming negative feedback. But developer Presselite said negative feedback has been rare, and it feels that Facebook’s ownership of Instagram influenced its decision.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-blocks-vintage-camera_b111731#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-blocks-vintage-camera_b111731 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111731 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:09:23 +0000 Facebook No Longer Reports Instagram User Data It appears that Facebook decided on a way to avoid negative stories about Instagram user data, such as a report late last month by the New York Post about the photo-sharing application’s sinking numbers: Now, Instagram user data are not available at all.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/no-instagram-user-data_b108171#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/no-instagram-user-data_b108171 http://allfacebook.com/?p=108171 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:35:17 +0000 Did Instagram’s Terms Of Use Flop Hurt Facebook? After mass confusion over Instagram’s updated terms of use, several users took to Facebook and Twitter to express their outrage over the company supposedly selling photographs. But how many people actually stopped using the application? A report in the New York Post dubiously claimed that Instagram has lost one-quarter of its users, but the math used in the story is a little fuzzy.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/instagram-facebook-stock_b107551#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/instagram-facebook-stock_b107551 http://allfacebook.com/?p=107551 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:11:55 +0000 Bitstrips Draws Success From Facebook One of the hottest Facebook applications may have just made photos boring. Comic creation community Bitstrips, which recently launched its Facebook app, is growing rapidly. Bitstrips allows users to create fun, engaging comics starring themselves and their friends. On Dec. 8, Bitstrips had just 10,000 monthly active users — now more than 110,000 people and counting are animating themselves.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/bitstrips_b107243#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/bitstrips_b107243 http://allfacebook.com/?p=107243 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:48:53 +0000 What Keeps No. 1 Facebook Game SongPop On Top? Many popular Facebook games are like fireworks: They rise and explode, then disappear. SongPop, recently named Facebook’s top game of 2012, relies on more than pyrotechnics to please users. Mathieu Nouzareth, CEO of SongPop developer FreshPlanet, told AllFacebook that the game has stayed popular simply because people have always and will always love music.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/songpop-top-social-game_b106188#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/songpop-top-social-game_b106188 http://allfacebook.com/?p=106188 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:36:54 +0000 Facebook Lauds Marvel’s Avengers Alliance Game The Avengers didn’t just slay the competition at the box office — they were quite successful on Facebook, too. Facebook highlighted the game Avengers Alliance (developed by Playdom) on the site’s developers blog, praising the game’s ability to implement quickly and its use of open graph technology.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/spotlight-avengers-alliance_b105968#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/spotlight-avengers-alliance_b105968 http://allfacebook.com/?p=105968 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:20:35 +0000 Songza Connects Facebook Users To Mood Music People can organize music by genre, artist, title, album date, and just about any other metric you could think of. But what about mood? Facebook application Songza produces playlists based on what types of music the user wants to hear for specific situations. For instance, if a person likes to hear hard rock and is getting ready for a half-marathon, Songza would provide a rockin’ workout playlist. The app was featured Thursday in Facebook’s Developer Spotlight.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/songza-developer-spotlight_b103633#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/songza-developer-spotlight_b103633 http://allfacebook.com/?p=103633 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:51:53 +0000 Facebook Lauds King.com As Model Of Facebook Integration Game developer King.com announced its newest Facebook game, Pet Rescue Saga, last night at a launch party. King.com also previewed a mobile version of one of their most popular games, Candy Crush Saga. The company had a very important fan in attendance — Sean Ryan, Facebook’s director of games partnerships, who said King.com is making all the right moves.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/king-com-facebook-integration_b103512#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/king-com-facebook-integration_b103512 http://allfacebook.com/?p=103512 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:23:50 +0000 Obama’s Latest Facebook Campaign Sticks The race for the U.S. presidency is increasingly being fought on Facebook. President Barack Obama‘s team used the social network this weekend, launching an interesting way to drive traffic to the Obama 2012 application, while giving users a tangible reward. When users connect with Obama via Facebook, they can get a free car magnet.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/obama-car-magnet_b100460#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/obama-car-magnet_b100460 http://allfacebook.com/?p=100460 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:14:17 +0000 Facebook Doubles Up On Trending Articles Remember trending articles? They’re back, and bigger than ever. Facebook has been testing ways to give trending articles more prominence in news feeds and the latest incarnation is to have two trending articles stacked on top of each other. Previously, users would scroll sideways through trending articles.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/double-trending-articles_b97641#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/double-trending-articles_b97641 http://allfacebook.com/?p=97641 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:49:25 +0000 SongPop Shooting For The Top Of The Charts On Facebook When FreshPlanet Co-Founder and CEO Mathieu Nouzareth and the rest of the development team started working on SongPop, they just wanted to create a game that would tap into the potential of mobile and social media. The game — which quizzes users on their ability to recognize a song as quickly as possible — has earned praise from Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and was recently featured on the Facebook developer blog.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/songpop-facebook-popular-app_b94557#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/songpop-facebook-popular-app_b94557 http://allfacebook.com/?p=94557 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:56:55 +0000 Glassdoor’s Integration With Facebook Appears To Compromise Anonymity Glassdoor is a great way to get the inside scoop on a company before you send in a job application. Job seekers can compare salaries and read anonymous reviews from employees to get a better sense of what it’s really like to work at a certain place. But now that Glassdoor has integrated with Facebook, users can see which friends are on Glassdoor, taking away the sense of anonymity.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/glassdoor-anonymity_b94300#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/glassdoor-anonymity_b94300 http://allfacebook.com/?p=94300 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:50:31 +0000 Mark Zuckerberg Shows Support For Song Pop Song Pop, the Facebook-based game where users can put their music knowledge to the test, gained a very important fan. Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted Thursday that he loves playing the game — a post that was shared by nearly 2,000 people in three hours.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-shows-support-for-song-pop_b92610#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-shows-support-for-song-pop_b92610 http://allfacebook.com/?p=92610 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:35:49 +0000