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Whole Foods Market, the Austin-based health food grocery store, launched a new Facebook app today in hopes of both encouraging and benefiting from users’ New Year’s resolutions to be healthy and contribute to charity.The app, This is my year to…, is part of a partnership between Whole Foods...

Inigral developed an early  Facebook app, Courses, that lets students do things like see who else is in their classes and share. More recently, it has been taking its education-focused theme a step further with its latest offering: Schools. This app aims to help universities meet the needs of pot...

Unsurprisingly, Christmas-themed applications reached their apex for the year this past week. They comprised four out of the 2o apps that gained the most monthly active users on Facebook over the past week, according to AppData.Christmas Cards! is at the top of our list, with 4.43 million new MAU...

AT&T launched a three-pronged online marketing effort aimed at Latinos this month, opening pages on Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, as part of a larger strategy to stay competitive in increasingly changing economic and demographic conditions, according to the company.AT&T said these new pl...

Happy Holidays from Inside Facebook. We know that it’s been a busy week for everyone, so here is our Christmas gift to you. The ever exciting headlines from Inside Social Games.Monday, December 21st, 2009Facebook Games Attract Somewhat Fewer New Monthly Active Users in This Week’s Top...

Make Facebook Real Life With Jivebug – Facebook communities are taking a step into the real world with the cell phone app Jivebug. The free app, currently available here, in Spain and the United Kingdom, can let you know when Facebook friends are near you, beep you when interesting people are aro...

This week, the top five emerging apps are all titles that have been released in the last two months according to AppData. For the week ending December 24, older titles have settled into much lower numbers on the list; ones like Youtopia, which placed 15th, eight spots lower than last week.The eme...

If you’re planning a trip to your favorite slopes, a new Facebook application from Myslopes gives you the ability to share your plans through your Facebook profile. The Myslopes widget also posts conditions, reviews and more for your destination, as well as which of your Facebook friends wi...

The Financial Times reported this week that its sister publication, The Economist, is going to make a major social media push in the first part of 2010. This will include Facebook Connect integration on Economist.com, and trying to reach 500,000 Facebook fans along with 750,000 Twitter followers....

In a sign of the times, The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors has nominated Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg to join as an independent director. She’ll start pending her election at Disney’s next annual meeting.There are a few interesting angles here. Clea...

Facebook left its disjointed cluster of offices in downtown Palo Alto, earlier this year, and moved across town, consolidating into a big old former Hewlett-Packard manufacturing building next to Stanford University. While it has made the 150,000 square-foot monstrosity into an elegant location f...

Dante’s Inferno, Battle of the Damned is a new role-playing game that has been growing fast on Facebook. Up to nearly 1 million monthly active users in less than a week after launching, it lets you “fight through the 9 circles of hell” to rescue your murdered and damned wife.But the story line he...

Christmas apps are rising in what is probably their last big week, according to Appdata, on this week’s list of the 20 apps that gained the most daily active users in the past 7 days.Incontra gente came in at number one this week, its first appearance on the list. The app lets Italian speak...

Last week, several new policy changes went into effect on the Facebook Platform. This week, another important new policy regarding the way developers can use Facebook’s News Feed “feed forms” has gone live: now, feed forms cannot be popped up without “explicit user intent.&#8221...

More than 10% of law firms in the country are on Facebook and more than 40% of attorneys, according to a survey conducted by the American Bar Association earlier this year. 12% of respondents reported working at firms with an online presence in a social network such as Facebook, up 4% from the 20...

Facebook is gaining on most of its competitors, according to another look at social networking around the world. We regularly cover the service’s international traffic in our Global Monitor report; many of the trends, below, will be familiar to our readers.(Note: Facebook-dominant countries...

Some 35 million Facebook users update their status every day, or around ten percent of the service’s 350 million monthly active users. Meanwhile, the service has grown by 200 million new people in the past year; the US alone now has nearly 100 million, including many of the parents and gran...

Facebook this morning released an update to its Facebook Connect JavaScript SDK that includes basic XFBML support and an optimization layer for FQL queries. Developers interested in building Connect JavaScript apps with XFBML for simpler rendering of Facebook elements will now be able to do so wi...

Adidas is celebrating its upcoming Star Wars originals line with a new Facebook Connect integration that also uses Google Earth. The application pulls in your profile image and location, then sends the Death Star to Earth to deliver… a branded message from Adidas.Once you’ve logged in...

The car with the most fans on Facebook got a little more popular late last week when some embargoed specifications for the upcoming 2011 Ford Mustang were leaked through a Facebook Page. Inside Line and Autoblog reported that someone in the know decided to divulge a few of the new Mustang’s...

Seven of the 20 applications that gained the most monthly active users this past week have holiday themes, according to AppData. Meanwhile, top games and other applications appear to have been adding fewer users than last week.Coming in first, RockYou’s Birthday Cards managed to beat Christ...

New numbers, social MMOs from Japan, and holiday virtual goods: These are only some social gaming news items From the past week. Here are our headlines from Inside Social Games.Monday, December 14th, 2009Taking a Look at Social MMO TinierMe‘Tis the Season for… Games on This Week&#8217...

Google Releases New Facebook App for Android – This week Google released a new version of Facebook for Android, now live on the market, that allows you to browse your friend’s profiles and photo albums with more ease. You may also share photos and leave comments on them with more ease.YouTu...

Facebook appears to be further tightening its policies around subscription and download ads and offers. The company sent an email to third-party ad networks this afternoon, saying that any ad for subscriptions or downloads will be “required to provide full disclosure of the service being of...

Facebook’s home page engagement ads are a central component of its ad product offerings to big brands, and as such the company has spent a lot of time developing and testing several different kinds of home page ads over the last couple years, including virtual gifts, events, videos, polls, ...

Facebook has just announced that its third “f8″ developer conference has been scheduled for April 21-22 in San Francisco. No venue has been announced yet, but it’s the first time the event will officially take place over two days.f8 is a great way for developers to connect and t...

In the modern, interconnected world of international finance, DST’s investments in Facebook and Zynga are, generally speaking, not surprising. Sovereign wealth funds have billions invested in banks, government loans, and most other assets around the world.The most striking things about DST ...

Holiday applications continue to grow through holiday season, and so do games and foreign-language applications on this week’s list of the top 20 emerging Facebook applications.Remember that this is a listing of apps that have an audience of 100,000 to 1 million monthly active users. The nu...

Asian countries continued to see more Facebook growth in November, gaining 3.86 million people to end at 63.5 million monthly active users, according to our monthly Global Monitor report.However, as we’ve noted elsewhere, November’s monthly Facebook growth number were significantly lo...