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Shaker Win TechCrunch Disrupt Competition 2011

September 17, 2011

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Shaker, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt at San Francisco 2011

Shaker, a Facebook social game won the prestigious TechCrunch Disrupt competition 2011, held in San Francisco for startup firms. Shaker won the Disrupt Cup from among 31 startup competitors and takes home $50,000.

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Shaker brings Facebook user into a new virtual pub with avatar-based chat rooms where they can move around and socialized with other people. Here it brings new interactivity to redefine Facebook.

TechCrunch writes, “Shaker is a mixture of Second Life, The Sims, and Turntable.fm all mixed together using your Facebook data and connections. Your Facebook profile becomes a walking avatar, your pictures are placed on a virtual wall, you can choose what music is playing in the room for everyone to hear and you can even buy people drinks.”

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Yonatan Maor, the site’s chief executive, claimed: that the site is just for flirting, not really for dating. But since these are real people, he said, users will quickly move off of the virtual dance floor and into real life.

Though there is a little controversy on Shaker winning the Disrupt Cup, but on winning this competition, it has open a new horizon for Shaker to make every endeavor in moving forward with the gain exposure and publicity. When the app is open to the larger audience, we expect the company will do away with all traction and offer much to its anticipated fans.

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The Top 25 Facebook Games for September 2011

September 3, 2011

Game is one of the most additive app offered by Facebook. For the month of September 2011, we see some new games joining the slot of Facebook’s top 25 games.

Top 25 DAU Sep 2011 The Top 25 Facebook Games for September 2011

Within the last 30 days, Facebook has enable many developers to introduced games on its platform. These are: EA Playfish’s The Sims Social, Zynga’s Pioneer Trail- a Frontier expansion, another Zynga’s Words With Friends and Ubisoft’s The Smurfs & Co. All of these games has shown a very impressive debut on traffic, both on DAU (Daily Active Users) and MAU (Monthly Active USers) as well making themselve included on the top of the ranking.

Among the new comers, The Sims Social enjoy the patronage of the gamers which can be attributed to playing Sims games for over a decades and the effectiveness of its pre-launch marketing campaign.

Top 25 MAU Sep 2011 The Top 25 Facebook Games for September 2011

For any game, MAU is very essental in determining the overall success of a game. It seems to be a pattern that most games have a high MAU during the first few months
of their debut. Zoo World, a recent game from RockYou is also seen to climb up the list. Still, it is Zynga games that is dominating the top list of Facebook games.

All figures are based on September 1, 2011 totals logged in AppData.

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Miramax Launches Movie-Streaming App In Facebook

August 23, 2011

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Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie venture ever. It has create a new Facebook app called Miramax eXperience, which not only streams movies over Facebook but also features a games that allows people to cast friends in various roles of Miramax movies and unlock bonus contents.

In the first go, Miramax is offering 20 titles in the US, 10 in the UK and Turkey. It is expected to get more movies and add support for more countries soon. Facebook users can rent each title for 30 Facebook credits ($3), which is active for 30 days but the viewing windows is 48 hours once you start to watch. This movies can also be viewed on multiple devices, including TV, computer, smartphone, browser-based player on iPad tablet and Google TV.

Miramax has an earlier struck deals with Amozon, Netflix, Hulu and Apple but the latest streaming venture would help in increasing sales by boosting user interaction since, Facebook is a more social atmosphere.

The app is still in beta version and the company will continue to refine, improve and expand the app for a lot more user functionality. It is now launched only with video-on-demand but the company plans ahead to let users buy movies and store them in a digital locker and access the content anywhere they want across all devices.

There are more than 50 million Facebook users who either mention or interact with a Miramax property, which the company is hoping to rech 150 million users within 18 months. More details about the service can be found at miramax.com

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“Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader” Game Launch On Facebook By Ludia and Mark Burnett

August 20, 2011

“Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader” a popular TV game show is now integrated as a Facebook game. Developed by Ludia Inc. in partnership with Mark Burnett’s One Three Television, the game set for extremely fun and highly addictive social game on Facebook.

The game is a multiplayer version allowing each players a great experience with friends, families and other larger Facebook users. In the game players simultaneously have to compete to answer correctly eight multiple choice questions from thousands of questions drawn from 10 different academic subjects. Players have the ability to use the ‘copy’ cheat, where two of Facebook friends can be choosen to help answer difficult questions. Players can also chat with fellow players. Bonus is also given to player who first answer a question.

The top three players then move on to the Bonus 5th Grade Question and have a chance at boosting cash earning by correctly answering the questions. At the end of the game, successful players can share and brag about how mush cash they earned in the game on their Facebook wall.

The game is a whole new dimension of good fun where you can show how dumb you are or how great you are against a 5th grader. It’s a real-time game-play with a great interactive experience. You can play this fabulous game by clicking on this link:

http://apps.facebook.com/playfifthgrader

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Facebook Acquires Snaptu For An Estimated $60 – $70 Million

March 20, 2011

Snaptu logo Facebook Acquires Snaptu For An Estimated $60 $70 MillionFacebook reportedly acquired Snaptu for an estimated $60 – $70 million.

If you remember, it was Snaptuthat launched an app for smartphone-like usabilities on feature phones.

Snaptu is start-up founded in 2007 with offices in Tel Aviv, London, Silicon Valley and Melbourne.

The acquisition has been confirmed and is apparently expected to close in a couple of weeks. According to a post on Snaptu’s blog:

Earlier this year, we announced the launch of a new Facebook mobile application to give people a great mobile experience on a broad range of feature phones. The Facebook for Feature Phones app currently works on more than 2,500 devices.

We soon decided that working as part of the Facebook team offered the best opportunity to keep accelerating the pace of our product development. And joining Facebook means we can make an even bigger impact on the world.

This is Facebook’s first acquisition of an Israeli company.

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Rounds Introduces Random Chat Feature

February 3, 2011

fb videochat rounds 300x103 Rounds Introduces Random Chat FeatureRounds, a social entertainment platform on Facebook, that was launched around 6 months back has now surpassed 350,000 monthly active users, and will be expected to gain more in the future with the latest update.

The latest update introduces Random Rounds and a number of games to its library. With the new Random Rounds feature, instead of just calling a friend, members can now pick any game or activity and enjoy it by themselves or with someone totally new.

Rounds has taken a number of precautions to tackle concerns like matching a 12-year-old girl with a 45-year-old man. There is no anonymity in Rounds as your name and user profile are clearly presented during chats. Users are also need to have over 100 friends to participate in Random Rounds, to discourage users from creating new accounts just to do dirty things. The system is also smart enough not to make inappropriate matches like the concern mentioned above.

Some of the cool features of the app includes video chats, take snapshots of each other, use webcam effects, watch Youtube videos simultaneously, play multi-player games, browse websites like Facebok, google Maps, Flickr etc right from the Rounds app environment.

If you haven’t check out this app, try it. It has been around since August 2010.

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Alert: “Who Viewed My Profile” App Hits Facebook Again

November 30, 2010

Want to know who viewed your Facebook profile?

Sorry again. Such apps don’t exist.

Scammers have used different variants of Facebook apps to tap into users’ curiosity about who might be viewing their profile on Facebook.

The latest app using this scheme comes with the message:

“OMG OMG OMG… I cant believe this actually works! Now you really can see who viewed your profile! on [LINK].”

Most users already know the Facebook doesn’t allow such apps according to their policy, and such apps are only scams. But, according to Sophos, more than 60,000 people clicked into the trap in a few hours, which I believed gives enough reason to share this post again with you.

Such application will redirect users to ad-filled pages or trick users into taking up surveys. The app will also start generating several newsfeeds on your wall and trick more people from your network into the scam.

If you have been hit by such scam apps, remove the app and all references to the app from your newsfeed.

If you need help, check out our post on how to remove rouge applications.

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Malicious Facebook App On Facebook Reported

March 4, 2010

The latest security threat to hit Facebook is a malicious application that spreads quickly by enticing users to create their own app that then inadvertently clones one of the template spam applications.

This rogue app, is said to come in many variants of “Who is checking your profile?” and has hit Facebook with improved technique as compared to previous attacks seen on Facebook.

The application is said to trick users into propagating the exploit by creating a brand new Facebook application that hands over the controls to the bad guys. This way, with so many clones, it will be harder for Facebook to block the malicious app.

WebSense’s blog says, “The attack starts with a friend, whom you trust, posting a link on your wall, asking you who is checking your profile. It also entices you by telling you that your friend is viewing your profile.”

Making fake “who view your profile” applications have come and gone many times on Facebook. So, the rogue app is said to ask users to create their own Facebook application, which i suppose will be a cool thing for most people. When the user enters their application’s API, the new application is used to clone one of the template spam applications, each with a different name and icon to entice more users.

Some other malicious application(might be the clones) that are;  Who Block me?, Who is in your mind?, Who stalks your profile?, Who Always Look into My Album?? etc.. Well, they all really looked enticing right?

Most fake apps are reported so in the application page by users. So, it is always a good practice to check out the application page and read the reviews, rather than just allowing and giving controls to the such applications.

Applications that are “who view your ….” type are not one to be trusted. Neither should they be trusted today nor in the days to come. Facebook policy doesn’t allow apps with such capability. So, never trust such apps, spread the word and keep your online community safe.

[For more details and screen shots, check out the source: WebSense]

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Frosmo App Launched in Facebook

December 25, 2009

Last week, 16 December 2009, a new Facebook app became available to its users: Frosmo. This new app provides tournaments where Facebook users can play games to improve their ranks and win prizes. Prizes include its own virtual money, Frollars; real cash; as well as virtual and real gifts.  In most tournaments, one needs the currency to join. Frollars can also be bought using PayPal or credit cards.

To play, Facebook users can invite friends to come together and form teams. This is not the same as teams in Mafia Wars, for example. In this Facebook app, team members can actually interact with each other and their team’s rank is dependent on how well each team member plays the games.

Because of the unusual attraction that the app provides, players find it rewarding to use the app. This, in turn, brings more users to Facebook and stay in the site longer.

The app earns by encouraging users to purchase Frollars and to upgrade their memberships for a limited time. Newbies are automatically bronze members. Bronze membership can access a limited number of games. Advanced memberships, like gold and platinum, can access more games and receive double or triple the regular amount of Frollars earned per game.

Popular Frosmo games include: Bubble Spinner, 3 Minutes on the Beach, and Blockarelli. To start playing, login to Facebook then go to the Facebook Frosmo app site (http://apps.facebook.com/frosmoworld/).frosmo Frosmo App Launched in Facebook

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