Playdom, one of the leading social gaming networks, announced today that they are launching a line of prepaid cards that will soon be available at Target, Walgreens, and 7-11. If you had any doubt that the social gaming space has become a big business, this should make things clear. The cards will now be available at more than 150,000 retail locations and can be used to purchase in-game currency on Mobsters and Sorority Life, two of Playdom’s largest games.
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Want to get Facebook Connect set up within your site quickly but not sure how to? You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to get this working! Today the company introduced the Facebook Connect wizard which walks users through the process of getting Connect set up. The service helps users get Connect set up in 3 quick steps. The only requirement is that users know how to upload files to their website. There’s a good chance that if you’re reading this blog, you know how to upload files to your website!
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An interesting take on the Mob Wars genre is a new game which lets you battle Al-Qaeda terrorists. The game, called “Al-Qaeda Wars“, was developed by Rage on Gaming, a company dedicated to making what appears to be relatively violent games. The company’s website includes a number of demo clips. One is of a terrorist blowing up the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the other is simply a man opening a package and getting shot in the head.
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Did you go to Vidyartha College? There’s a good chance that you’ve never even heard of the college that’s based in Sri Lanka, however numerous Facebook users are reporting that their friends are being affiliated with the school. This isn’t the first time that Facebook has had a glitch like this. Previously, users have been accidentally affiliated with Harvard University even though they never set it.
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Want to get your site translated into multiple languages for free? With Facebook’s new Translations for Facebook Connect, developers and website owners can take advantage of Facebook’s highly successful Translations application. Using the translations application, Facebook was able to have the site translated into more than 65 languages in a matter of months. Facebook was translated into Spanish in two weeks, and then French followed next in under 24 hours.
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According to a new report that was republished on eMarketer, 86 percent of online retailers have Facebook Pages whereas only 65 percent of them have Twitter accounts. However, an additional 19 percent plan on using Twitter in the next year and an additional 10 percent plan on creating a Facebook Page in the same time period. It’s an interesting report, however this is just a sampling of online retailers, or companies who are already technically savvy.
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Facebook Page customization can be a tricky task sometimes, and one of the most annoying features of Pages is the “Boxes” tab. Last week I noticed a few pages that had removed the boxes tab however I hadn’t tried it out on my page yet. Thankfully Facebook got back in touch with me after I reached out to them and let me know how that it’s a really easy task to accomplish. Apparently I just hadn’t clicked on the right things!
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People like wasting their time on Facebook and AppBank is looking to exploit that fact to help you make money off them. While you probably won’t get rich off of AppBank, you can earn a few hundred extra dollars per month in order to pay for beer … err … I mean “buying college books”. The platform enables non-technical people to create “high-quality quizzes, gifts, polls, surveys, tests, and games”. The difference between this one and traditional “create your own app” services is that creators of the applications can actually generate income from them.
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What really makes television what it is? Is it the fact that it’s sitting in some dedicated space in your living room? Or is it the fact that it’s probably one of the larger monitors in your apartment or house? Maybe it’s not connected to a computer, and that’s what makes it a television (although they’ll all soon be computers). Whatever it is, Facebook is going head on with television not only through their new Brand Lift service but also through their numerous Ustream partnerships lately.
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Last week we finished up the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program and while some people may or may not have reached the 3,000 fan target, the real question is: does the number of fans really matter? Last night I was watching a video of Seth Godin where he says “it’s worthless to have lots and lots of friends on Facebook.” With so many people selling the importance of having fans, followers, and friends though, how could Seth Godin, a thought leader in marketing, make such an assertion?
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