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2menoftimeOriginally published at Внутри Фейсбук. Facebook.. Please leave any comments there.
Пост может быть не совсем на тему Facebook, но решение довольно интересное. Особенно полезно будет активным пользователям социальной сети Google Plus, которые не хотят расставаться с любимыми Facebook и Twitter. Объединив в рамках одной платформы (хотя бы на уровне интерфейса) все три социальные сети, получим мощнейший источник информации. Да и сложного ничего в этом нет. [...]
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Facebook has launched Timeline on its Android app and m.facebook.com for touch devices after introducing the new profile to users worldwide late Wednesday night. Note: There is not a set release date for Timeline in the iOS app, but Facebook tells us it is coming in an update soon. iOS apps must go through an [...]
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Facebook’s 800+ million membership includes users from all demographics and incomes, and luxury car manufacturers can reach customers new and old with a well-managed Facebook Page. By combining striking visuals and eye-catching design alongside innovative tab customization, supercar brands can drive fans to Facebook and into their showrooms. In this week’s Facebook Marketing Showcase [...]
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Facebook hired engineers of all types it would appear according to posts removed from its Careers Page. Data center staff, interns, fraud, business associate staff and more were hired, in addition to a user ops analyst, according to the company’s LinkedIn feed. New hires per LinkedIn and Other Sources: Marilyn Cooke, User Operations Analyst – formerly Account Executive at Return2Sender. Prior listings [...]
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Facebook appears to be looking for more engineers of all types, at least according to posts we found had changed on its Careers Page. It’s important to note there have been many changes made to the Page in recent weeks, a reorganization of sorts, but this list consists of posts added as far as we can tell. [...]
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Пару дней назад Facebook обновил дизайн домашней странички моего аккаунта. Все остальные пока остались без изменения. В новом дизайне появилась постоянно обновляемая лента активности. В ней отображаются абсолютно все действия друзей, даже то, что не попадает в основную ленту (комментарии к фотографиям незнакомых людей и т.п.). Эта лента статична — ее положение не изменяется при [...]
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Games on social networks became a billion dollar business in 2010, enabling the market’s big developers to secure significant investments and pursue sizable exits. Now that Zynga has clearly established itself as the 800 pound gorilla, EA/Playfish are bringing more IP to market, and Playdom is being integrated across Disney, what opportunities remain for other small and medium sized social game developers in 2011?
Inside Network is proud to announce a new original research report by Justin Smith and Charles Hudson profiling social gaming developers outside the largest, most established companies, entitled Inside Virtual Goods: Profiling the Social Gaming Middle Market 2011. This report presents direct interview results from today’s most influential small and mid-sized developers aside from larger players Zynga, Playfish, Playdom, CrowdStar, and Kabam.
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Inside Virtual Goods: Profiling the Social Gaming Middle Market 2011 is available for the first time today.
What are top mid-sized developers’ expectations for the social gaming space in 2011? How will existing players fare as Facebook shifts the social gaming landscape through the rollout of Facebook Credits and continued changes to the platform? Inside Virtual Goods: Profiling the Social Gaming Middle Market 2011 shares insights directly from the front lines on social game monetization, development, and customer acquisition and growth.
About the Report
Inside Virtual Goods: Profiling the Social Gaming Middle Market 2011 shares insights from over two-dozen developers into key questions facing social gaming in 2011.
As with previous editions of Inside Virtual Goods, researchers Justin Smith and Charles Hudson have conducted several months of original research comprising interviews with developers and entrepreneurs in social gaming. This edition of Inside Virtual Goods will present exclusive interview results from the developers themselves, preceded by original profiles of all companies included in the survey. Social gaming is among today’s most competitive areas in technology; specific responses have been anonymized to encourage authentic, critical response.
What We Cover
See the full table of contents below:
Table of Contents
New Insights on the Competitive Landscape
In 2010, social games began to show what kind of value can be created on top of social networks. 2011 will be an even more important year.
The social gaming market is evolving rapidly against a backdrop of shifting challenges, and still-emerging opportunities — social gaming will be this year’s industry to watch. If you’re involved, or are considering jumping in, Inside Virtual Goods will be one of your most important tools.
One year of original data and exclusive in-depth reports delivered on a quarterly basis is $2,495 and contains:
About the Authors
Justin Smith
Founder, Inside Network
Justin Smith is the founder of Inside Network, the first company dedicated to providing news and market research to the Facebook platform and social gaming ecosystem. Justin leads Inside Network’s Inside Virtual Goods and AppData research and data services, and serves as co-editor of Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games.
Prior to Inside Network, he was formerly Head of Product at Watercooler, one of the leading application and game developers on the Facebook Platform. Prior to Watercooler, Justin was an early employee at Xfire, the largest social utility for gamers, which was sold to Viacom in 2006. Justin holds a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.
Charles Hudson
Former VP Business Development, Serious Business
Charles Hudson is the former VP of Business Development for Serious Business, a leading social games developer on the Facebook platform.
Prior to Serious Business, he was formerly the Sr. Director for Business Development at Gaia Interactive, a leading online hangout for teens. Prior to Gaia, Charles worked in New Business Development at Google and focused on new partnership opportunities for early-stage products in the advertising, mobile, and e-commerce markets. Prior to joining Google, he was a Product Manager for IronPort Systems, a leading provider of anti-spam hardware appliances that was acquired by Cisco Systems for $830 million in 2007. Charles holds an MBA and BA from Stanford University.
Get The Annual Membership
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OR Buy Single Report: $995
The one year subscription includes three quarterly updates on key developments in the space. Or, you can download just this report.
Index of companies profiled: 50 Cubes, 6waves, A Bit Lucky, Casual Collective, Cie Games, Digital Chocolate, Five Minutes, Funzio, Gaia Online, GameHouse, GSN, Happy Elements, iWin/Backstage, Lionside, Lolapps, Metrogames, MindJolt, OMGPOP, PopCap, RockYou, Social Point, TheBroth, Ubisoft, Wooga, ZipZapPlay
2menoftimeOriginally published at Facebook на русском. social networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook News, Facebook Games. Please leave any comments there.
Rfave is a Facebook Connect-integrated website that aims to use your Facebook profile to match you with potential restaurants, dentists, mechanics and other services in your local area.
Unlike Yelp, which shows people what is generally popular, or what their friends prefer, RFave’s creators Erin and Trey Bean wanted to recommend services that are popular amongst people with similar Likes and interests. Your friends might not have the same preferences as you, but Rfave can give recommendations from people who align with user on choices such as Macs or PCs, beer or wine, or hamburgers versus veggie burgers.
To date, Facebook Connect has been used more for displaying the Likes and actions of one friend to another, rather than creating more holistic recommendations engines. Rfave could be especially useful to those with a rich profile of interests but few friends, or those who’s interests differ sharply from their friends.
Rfave allows you to quickly and easily make your own recommendations in dozens of categories. Adding a category is relatively simple and the site uses Google to find businesses near you. The service is available in cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, San Antonio, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., London, and many more.
Rfave is intuitive, but perhaps because the site is still in beta and hasn’t built up a large user base, it’s not particularly practical. In places like Los Angles, where there are simply more people, there were more recommendations available, but in a city like San Antonio with many less millions of people, almost none of the categories contained recommendations. Adding your own recommendations to your profile ends up increasing the number of suggestions significantly, as even the Los Angeles entries were pretty bare.
Yelp, TripAdvisor and other similar recommendation services could do well to create similar Facebook-enabled recommendations, as the gist of Rfave makes a lot of sense. People want to be able to choose services not strictly based on geography, ratings, or friends, but by a socially-enabled mix of them.
The company has a Facebook app Page, but could probably do more to promote itself utilizing a Page. This would allow Rfave to build its community and fill out their inventory of recommendations.
2menoftimeOriginally published at Facebook на русском. social networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook News, Facebook Games. Please leave any comments there.
For the past month, Facebook has been enforcing its rule that developers only use advertising services provided by those companies that have agreed to abide by its ad provider terms. Meanwhile, more ad companies have been signing on to the terms — 15 of them since the beginning of March, by our count, to total 77. The list of new companies is below; the official list is here.
Google is still missing, of course. Facebook’s terms prevent ad companies from doing things like repurposing Facebook user data for their own targeting technologies. Because Google collects and uses data about users for targeting purposes, services like its AdSense ad network for web sites could be impaired if it complied with the terms.
Meanwhile, other ad providers who have long been active on the web, like Adperio, are now on the list. So are some long-time offer providers, including DoubleDing, and a mix of startups. Here are the 15 additions that we’ve tracked over the course of the month. Let us know in comments if you have any changes or additions.
Note that while the above companies have agreed to the terms, Facebook also says it holds developers responsible for what ad providers do within their applications. For more details, see our chronological coverage of the list since it emerged last December.
2menoftimeOriginally published at Facebook на русском. social networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook News, Facebook Games. Please leave any comments there.
Operation Developer Love is now in Paris, France at the Facebook Developer Garage, where we are completely sold out. Because of the demand, we are also livestreaming the video.
Agenda:
Please join us here starting at 9:30AM Paris time.
Presentations along with code samples will be posted on the Developer Blog following the event.
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