Archive for July 7th, 2010

The Facebook Global Monitor July 2010 Edition is Now Available

The Facebook Global Monitor is available through your membership to Inside Facebook Gold We’ve just released the July 2010 edition of the Facebook Global Monitor . The Facebook Global Monitor is our data report tracking Facebook’s audience growth around the world, and is a part of the Inside Facebook Gold data membership service. The Global Monitor tracks Facebook’s international metrics, and provides both historical data and forward-looking projections to enable developers, marketers, and analysts to spot trends and opportunities.

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Gigya Releases Stats On Social ID Use, Talks About EdgeRank

Gigya, a company that has transformed from widget-maker to social media optimization service, has released a new infographic detailing which social IDs people use most frequently to login to different types of Gigya-optimized websites. Facebook leads with 46% of Gigya logins across all sites, and was also the top social ID for entertainment and business to business sites

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Windows Messenger Leads This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Apps by DAU

For several weeks now, Windows Live Messenger has been climbing its way through the growth charts.

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Facebook’s June 2010 US Traffic by Age and Sex: Users Aged 18-44 Take a Break

[Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold , our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world.

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Facebook Continues to Roll Out Hovercard Previews for News Feed Items

Facebook has slowly been rolling out “hovercards” to show previews of profiles, Pages, events and groups when their names are moused over on the news feed. This new design element, which has been spotted over the past few months, allows users to learn more about and interact with items in their feeds without opening a new tab or navigating away. The feature encourages a calm, single-window browsing experience versus a cluttered, fatigue-inducing array of active Facebook windows

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Facebook Continues to Roll Out Hovercard Previews for News Feed Items

Facebook has slowly been rolling out “hovercards” to show previews of profiles, Pages, events and groups when their names are moused over on the news feed.

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UTV Indiagames Releases Lucky Ganesha on Facebook

Having lagged behind much of the rest of the world, India is now among one of the fastest growing international regions for Facebook. Developers in the country are paying more attention, too, producing the sorts of apps that will be familiar to most users. UTV Indiagames is one of those developers.

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UTV Indiagames Releases Lucky Ganesha on Facebook

Having lagged behind much of the rest of the world, India is now among one of the fastest growing international regions for Facebook. Developers in the country are paying more attention, too, producing the sorts of apps that will be familiar to most users

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Bharti Airtel Brings Free m.facebook.com to India

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest cellular service provider, announced a partnership with Facebook yesterday that will bring free access to the site’s mobile version, m.facebook.com, to Bharti’s 130 million customers. For all of July and August Airtel subscribers can utilize key Facebook features like status updates, photos, and private messages with no data charges.  The promotion aims to hook users on accessing Facebook from their phones, similar to 0.facebook.com, the free, text-only mobile version of the site Facebook is working with carriers worldwide to bring to users without data plans. Unlike Facebook Zero, Airtel users will have access to m.facebook.com’s wider set of features, including data-intensive photos, but excluding more complex features like chat and games

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