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Thursday, January 27, 2011

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This Week's Fastest Growing Facebook Applications

Games, quizzes, social networking help for bands, and so much more are found on this week's fastest growing list. read more>>

Facebook Creating Application For All Tablets

Facebook may have left the task of creating a native application for the iPad to third-party developers, but it appears that the company plans to create something to run on all tablets, including the Apple device. read more>>

Developers, Facebook Has Simplified Requests

Facebook has unveiled a more streamlined requests dialogue for developers that promises to also speed things up for end users. read more>>

Facebookers Watch 150 Years Of YouTube Videos Daily

Facebook users watch over 150 years worth of YouTube videos on an average day, according to the video sharing site. read more>>

Facebook Plans To Make "Sponsored Stories" Self-Serve

Days after Facebook first announced its sponsored stories product, we're hearing that the social network has been actively pitching third-party ad platforms on extending the product through the company's increasingly popular Ads API. That means we could soon see sponsored stories show up as a self-serve product for all advertisers on the site. read more>>

Facebook Denies Tie-In With HTC Smartphones

Facebook isn't planning to launch a branded smartphone with HTC, Dan Rose, vice president of partnerships and platform marketing at the social network, told reporters in London. read more>>

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Flash Gaming Summit 2011: February 27, 2011

Flash Gaming Summit brings leaders in the Flash game space together to share industry insights and strategies on successful game design, development and monetization. The program includes two tracks of community-selected speakers, an award ceremony, and an after-party/networking mixer. Register now!

WARNING: Don't Click On '50 Free Farm Cash' Posts

The latest scam spreading across Facebook falsely promises 50 free Farm Cash and a Groupon for half off purchases at Bath and Body. Nothing of the sort awaits those who click on the posts, as they lead to yet another marketing survey. Completing it exposes you to malware while earning a commission for the scammer. read more>>

Disabled Man Uses Facebook To Get Help During Fire

His wife used to hate it when Robert "Bob" Chambers logged onto Facebook to play games. How little did she know that social media would play a roll in possibly saving his life. read more>>

Cory Ondrejka Reveals Facebook Game That Researches HTML5

Cory Ondrejka has revealed on a Facebook engineering blog post what he has been working on since January with Bruce Rogers, presumably at the stealth startup Walletin acquired by the social network in November. Their JSGameBench provides a measurement of the limits of Hypertext Markup Language 5 for creating games on diverse platforms. read more>>

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March 31-April 1 | New York City
Socialize gathers business leaders in gaming, virtual goods, mobile, marketing, and media for two days of learning about all things social. Speakers include social media pros Mitch Joel, President of Twist Image and Ian Schafer, Founder and CEO of Deep Focus. Click here to learn more.

How Do Criminals Keep Updating Facebook From Prison?

The Virginia Department of Corrections just discovered that an inmate's family outside of jail was updating the convict's profile. read more>>

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Virtual Goods Meet Real World Work: Trends and Opportunities
Learn from companies that leverage virtual goods for real world work, such as gold coins as a reward for replying to company email, and virtual currency payments for crowdsourced work. read more

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