This Week In Facebook - November 8, 2009
This week has been one of controversy surrounding the ongoing reverse mobile billing offers across Facebook applications. It also has been a week of positive updates for developers who were on edge about the impending removal of application notifications. While Facebook didn’t have any big product announcements this week, there was enough controversy to make up for the lack of any major rollouts. Facebook Surpasses 325 Million Users Last week Facebook’s advertising platform began reporting that the site had

Zynga’s FishVille Goes Live On Facebook
Less than a month we wrote that Facebook had just trademarked FishVille. Weeks later the company is officially launching FishVille. Happy Aquarium, the application which FishVille is based on, is now the 5th largest application on the Facebook Platform. Given Happy Aquarium’s presence, I’d expect to see FishVille advertisements all over Facebook. So what is FishVille? It&#

ABC Launches Facebook Connect Integration
This afternoon Facebook posted an update about all the television networks that have integrated Facebook Connect, including ABC who has two new exciting integrations. The first is a promotion for the series “FlashForward” which takes advantage of Facebook Connect to integrate your profile data into a promotion. It’s similar to other promotions we’ve seen such as the Doritos promotion and the Prototype X

Facebook Surpasses 325 Million Users
Facebook has continued to grow at an impressive rate throughout the year, most recently announcing the 300 million user milestone. According to Facebook’s own advertising statistics though, the company is now beyond 325 million users and continuing to grow. The story has become relatively repetitive at this point: Facebook is growing like a weed and doesn’t appear to be slowing. The other part of the story that we regularly hear is that Facebook is growing at the expense of companies like MySpace, hi5, Bebo, and any other social network which

Which Ad Networks Did Facebook Shut Down?
Last night Facebook restated their commitment to fighting off aggressive advertisers and as part of that commitment they have shut down two more ad networks which continue to violate the platform terms. Unfortunately we have no idea which ad networks they shut down and even after talking to multiple sources we have yet to uncover who those networks are. Perhaps the people who were shut down are irrelevant, but as I wrote at the beginning of the week, casualties were inevitable. Techcrunch has become the