Workout application Endomondo has been lifting things up and putting them down at a rapid rate since upgrading for timeline with Facebook’s open graph in March, with traffic from the social network jumping 75 percent and 150 percent more workouts shared via Facebook.
Social sharing application Buffer released a set of browser plugins that allow for greater integration with Facebook.
Facebook’s apps and games discovery page? That’s so yesterday. The social network today announced the upcoming rollout of its new app center, aimed at giving developers the chance to grow their social applications and at providing users with a one-stop shop for apps.
There is a lesson to be learned from reports earlier this week about certain Facebook social reader applications shedding users by the thousands: Don’t invest in a product or develop one just on the basis of popularity on Facebook. That’s because there’s a master magician pulling the strings, or, in this case, directing the flow of traffic, and that is the social network itself.
Could mobile get any hotter? The latest number-crunching data from comScore reveal that Facebookers are more likely to connect to the social network through smartphones than through computers.
Custom Facebook application developer ShortStack has gone mobile, announcing the addition of a “smart URL” for its apps that allows them to be viewed via mobile devices.
Do you remember all the stories about the success of Facebook social readers, including those of The Washington Post and The Guardian? Stop the presses.
Facebook’s May 18 initial public offering hasn’t slowed its acquisition frenzy, as the social network gobbled up location-based mobile application Glancee for an undisclosed amount.
Electronic reading and mobile application Kobo has attracted more eyeballs following its upgrade for timeline in January, seeing its traffic from Facebook rise by more than 50 percent and its daily registrations leap by over 90 percent.
Less than one month after shelling out $1 billion to acquire photo-sharing application Instagram, Facebook added two Instagram-like photo filters to its Facebook for Every Phone app.
