Articles tagged with: application
Brands Get Social for Olympics
With the Olympic Games just a month off, some brands are looking to extend their sponsorships with social media programs. Lenovo has created 100 athletes’ blogs in an attempt to align itself with some less …
iPhone facebook app 1.1 released
Facebook has taken a lot of user feedback into account regarding their initial launch of the Facebook for iPhone application 1 week ago and released version 1.1 today. New features include:
writing on friends’ walls
viewing …
Xiaonei social network launched its Open Platform
Recently, top Chinese social network Xiaonei (which looks a lot like Facebook and doesn’t try to hide it) launched its Open Platform for developers. With the launch, Xiaonei also announced a $50,000 application competition for …
SpeedDate Facebook Application vanishes
SpeedDate, an application from the company of the same name, has disappeared from the application list, and the link to the application leads back to the Facebook homepage. SpeedDate is a web-based speed dating service …
Official Facebook Application Scrabble vs Scrabulous
Today, Hasbro and EA announced that the Facebook app EA has been working on for more than six months will be launched later this month, although a version on Pogo (EA’s online casual gaming site) …
iPhone App Store to Launch by Friday
It looks like green lights all the way for the launch of the iPhone App Store this week. Most developers have been told they must submit their applications by 12 PM PDT today (Monday) to be considered for inclusion in the launch:
Top Friends suspension Ends After 7 Days, Social Me Still Suspended
Slide’s Top Friends, suspended from the Platform for a total of 7 days, was restored over the weekend. As of today, Top Friends is back to about 1.1 million daily active users,
Huge Traffic Drop for Facebook Super Wall Application
While Slide’s Top Friends suspension has garnered a lot of developer attention, rival RockYou! faces an equally serious problem: Super Wall’s traffic has plummeted - fast. Super Wall was until recently the most active application …
Think Global act local for Facebook Developers
Many facebook application developers have been asking whether they should develop for international markets now or wait for Facebook to release its crowd-sourced translation tools for applications. New data is available on applications developed in …
Another Facebook suspension: This time Social Me App
Five days ago, the Facebook Platform policy team made waves throughout the developer community by suspending Slide’s Top Friends application, the third largest application by daily active users, for a privacy violation of the Developer …
Search Engines can now find and index Flash files
Adobe has come up with a way for the search engines to read SWF files and index all of the information they contain. That means any text or links in a Flash application can now …
