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Author Christopher Mack

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. Having made the experimental Cricket [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, June 28th, 2010 Sims, Strategy and Sports All Appear on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU Plimus Enters the Payment Platform Wars With In-Game [...]

Top 25 Facebook Games for July 2010

In a trend that started this spring, many of the 25 largest Facebook social games continued to lose users through the end of May and on through last month. But there was some growth. Our weekly top 20 lists have consistently shown gains for any number of new and smaller developers as well as the big [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, June 21st, 2010 FrontierVille, Hello City Lead Off This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by MAU Gamenaughts Combines Facebook Farming and Cooking with Wonder Island A [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, June 14th, 2010 Cities and Soccer Add the Most New MAUs on our Weekly List of Facebook Gainers Austin-Based Social Developer Sneaky Games Raises First Round of [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, June 14th, 2010 Cities and Soccer Add the Most New MAUs on our Weekly List of Facebook Gainers Austin-Based Social Developer Sneaky Games Raises First Round of [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, June 14th, 2010 Cities and Soccer Add the Most New MAUs on our Weekly List of Facebook Gainers Austin-Based Social Developer Sneaky Games Raises First Round of [...]

CrowdStar Runs Its Own Virtual Goods Campaign to Help Out with the Oil Spill

As crude oil continues to pour from the hole in the earth down in the Gulf of Mexico, social developers have been launching various campaigns to help out. Just today, however, CrowdStar started their own efforts to raise funds within their popular Facebook application, Zoo Paradise, in a campaign dubbed “CrowdStar Cares. ” Reaching over 4.6 [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, June 7th, 2010

City Builders Appear Again on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
RockYou Gets Another $10 Million from SoftBank, Buys Majority of Asia Joint Venture
Zynga [...]

Spice Up Those Facebook Photos with CutePhoto

Hong Kong-based SillyCube has launched a new photo-editing Facebook application called CutePhoto. Even though it’s in an older and crowded genre, it manages to stand out for its ease of use and color.
From slimmed down, Photoshop’esque tools, to any number of brilliantly saturated graphics, SillyCube provides its users with a wide assortment of tools to [...]

Spice Up Those Facebook Photos with CutePhoto

Hong Kong-based SillyCube has launched a new photo-editing Facebook application called CutePhoto. Even though it’s in an older and crowded genre, it manages to stand out for its ease of use and color.
From slimmed down, Photoshop’esque tools, to any number of brilliantly saturated graphics, SillyCube provides its users with a wide assortment of tools to [...]

Spice Up Those Facebook Photos with CutePhoto

Hong Kong-based SillyCube has launched a new photo-editing Facebook application called CutePhoto. Even though it’s in an older and crowded genre, it manages to stand out for its ease of use and color.
From slimmed down, Photoshop’esque tools, to any number of brilliantly saturated graphics, SillyCube provides its users with a wide assortment of tools to [...]

Orange Has a Funny, Growing Text-to-Speech Facebook App

Orange, the lead brand of France Telecom, has a new Facebook application out called VoxCards, Using text-to-speech recognition technology, it lets you send virtually any type of message to your friends in French, or at least in an outrageous French accent.
Though the application is in French, it’s pretty easy to figure out (Google Translate helps a [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, May 31st, 2010

Mindjolt Regains Its Mojo on This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by MAU
GameToyz Pairs Casual Games and Real Prizes on Facebook

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Gameloft Brings [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, May 31st, 2010

Mindjolt Regains Its Mojo on This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by MAU
GameToyz Pairs Casual Games and Real Prizes on Facebook

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Gameloft Brings [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, May 24th, 2010

Zynga and 7-Eleven Start Cross-Promotion Partnership
Cooking the Sweet Stuff on Facebook, Some More, with Baking Life
Playforge Combines Zombies and Farm Games on the iPhone
Like Buttons [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, May 17th, 2010

Family Feud Takes the Lead On This Week’s List of Fastest Facebook Gainers By MAU
CrowdStar Takes On Former AdMob Exec Niren Hiro As New CEO
Wooga’s Jens [...]

ChatVille Wants to Be a Facebook-Friendly Version of Chatroulette

If you haven’t heard of it yet, an internet phenomenon called Chatroulette has been getting popular lately. It does something lots of other services have already, which is to throw two random video chat users together for a session that either party can end at their convenience. It can lead to anything from great discussions [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, May 10th, 2010

The Next Generation Hits This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by MAU
Board Game Carrom Comes to Facebook
Facebook MMOs Go Retro with Fantasy Online
Training Social Gamers [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Big Slowdown Across Most of This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
Top 25 MySpace Games for May 2010
Top 25 Facebook Games for May 2010
Playing [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, April 26th, 2010

More Big Gains For the Top Games On This Week’s List of Fastest Facebook Growers By MAU
FarmVille Streamlines Again With In-Game Gifting
Playdom Buys Branded Social Game [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, April 19th, 2010

Treasure Isle Remains Far Ahead of the Pack On This Week’s List of Fastest-Gaining Facebook Games by MAU
Big Fish Games Launches Treasure Quest, An Ambitious Meta [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, April 12th, 2010

Treasure Island Makes a Splash On This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
For 25th Anniversary, Tetris Gets Social Via Facebook
In Search of Treasure Madness [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, April 5th, 2010

EA Passes Playdom on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
City Building and War Combine in Watercooler’s Kingdoms of Camelot Facebook Game
Digital Chocolate Goes [...]

Bulbstorm’s Idea Challenges Facebook App Brings Together Brands, Causes and User Creativity

What if simple features — like contests and forums — could help promote your ideas for making an impact on the world? The folks over at Bulbstorm have launched a Facebook application called Idea Challenges that intends to do this.
The company is building a community of people who have ideas and wish to share them in the [...]

Bulbstorm’s Idea Challenges Facebook App Brings Together Brands, Causes and User Creativity

What if simple features — like contests and forums — could help promote your ideas for making an impact on the world? The folks over at Bulbstorm have launched a Facebook application called Idea Challenges that intends to do this.
The company is building a community of people who have ideas and wish to share them in the [...]

Bulbstorm’s Idea Challenges Facebook App Brings Together Brands, Causes and User Creativity

What if simple features — like contests and forums — could help promote your ideas for making an impact on the world? The folks over at Bulbstorm have launched a Facebook application called Idea Challenges that intends to do this.
The company is building a community of people who have ideas and wish to share them in the [...]

Bulbstorm’s Idea Challenges Facebook App Brings Together Brands, Causes and User Creativity

What if simple features — like contests and forums — could help promote your ideas for making an impact on the world? The folks over at Bulbstorm have launched a Facebook application called Idea Challenges that intends to do this.
The company is building a community of people who have ideas and wish to share them in the [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

From virtual collectible card characters to gardening and treasure hunting, the past week has shown us a variety of different types of new social game releases. In addition to these, we also saw a number of new investments and new metrics with the change in months, but without further delay, here are the headlines from [...]

This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games

From virtual collectible card characters to gardening and treasure hunting, the past week has shown us a variety of different types of new social game releases. In addition to these, we also saw a number of new investments and new metrics with the change in months, but without further delay, here are the headlines from [...]