Slower Growth For This Week’s Facebook Apps With the Most New Daily Active Users
This is our second edition of our top 20 applications that gained the most daily active users in the past week. We’re taking a close look at the DAU metric because it gives an idea of whether users keep engaging with an app (and maybe making its developers money). The

Facebook Talking to Developers About New Plans for Its Virtual Currency
Facebook first broached the idea of creating its own virtual currency for third-party developers back in December of 2007. The company has slowly

What the Largest Coffee Retailers Are Doing On Their Facebook Pages
With about 27,000 coffee shops in America, and 11,000 or so accounted for by chains, it is no surprise that there are dozens – even hundreds – of Facebook Pages dedicated to coffee serving establishments. In this post we’ll cover coffee shop chains, looking at each of the five largest pages and what they’re doing well, or not. In a subsequent post, we’ll feature local coffee shop Pages.

Facebook Using Your Photos for Ads Without Consent? That’s Still A False Rumor
There are all sorts of great rumors about Facebook that we hear, but this one seems to stick for some reason. Rumors have been going around — it’s not clear how widely — that the company is planning to use Facebook users’ photos in advertisements without their consent. Basically, the same rumor went around in July. Yesterday, Facebook updated its denial blog post from that point in time with the following statement: UPDATE on Tuesday, Nov. 24

Xbox Live Sees 2 Million Facebook Users in First Week — What’s Next?
Microsoft put out a press release yesterday touting the success of its Xbox Live console gaming network, and the company included some stats about its new integration with Facebook and other web services. In the week since Facebook became available, more than 2 million of Xbox Live’s 20 million “Active Members” have signed on to it. That’s ten percent of the total active user base, alth