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Zynga Swallows The Facebook Credits Pill Whole
In May Zynga and Facebook ended their months long fight and entered into a five year deal to use Facebook Credits as the primary monetization engine for Zynga games on the Facebook platform. Zynga began rolling out Facebook Credits on some of its games months ago. But now they’ve made...
Read more »September 8, 2010, 10:15 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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TUAW first look and giveaway: Courier simplifies Mac media sharing
<!--CONTENT START--> Sharing your files, photos, movies, and images with others through online services can sometimes be a hassle for Mac users. For some of us, it's possible to get all of the various interconnections between services set up in such a way that one tweet sends a photo to...
Read more »September 8, 2010, 10:00 am| Read full article | More articles from tuaw.com
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3 iPad Apps that Reinvent News Reading
As news consumption shifts to the personalized social news stream, the platforms we use to consume the news are also changing.With its media-friendly design, the iPad is the first mobile device to create an environment perfect for real-time news consumption that maintains the sophistication and style of traditional print magazines...
Read more »September 8, 2010, 8:32 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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Oxfam Takes to the Web to Raise Awareness About Hunger
Oxfam America has hit the web today to promote its Hunger Banquet program, which teaches citizens about poverty and hunger and how they can help those in need.The first proxy of the Hunger Banquet — the Fast for a World Harvest — occurred in 1974, when 250,000 people across the...
Read more »September 8, 2010, 7:20 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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Facebook Integration Coming To GM’s OnStar
It’s safe to say we’ve reached the pinnacle of humanity with this next bit of news: you’ll soon be able to update your Facebook status using OnStar. It’s the first “entertainment-y” option to be offered by OnStar, perhaps designed to cash in on some of the goodwill that has gone...
Read more »September 8, 2010, 7:17 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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Facebook closes door for spammers
Facebook has closed a hole that was being used by spammers to automatically post wall messages and direct messages to friends.
September 8, 2010, 4:35 am| Read full article | More articles from updates.zdnet.com
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See What’s Hot Nearby on Facebook Places, Twitter and Yelp
Facebook Places is still virgin territory for most users, let alone developers and businesses. So how do you get the most out of a service that few people have really figured out how to use?Geo-social aggregator Hotlist thinks that by combining data from Facebook Places, Twitter, Google Maps and Yelp,...
Read more »September 7, 2010, 12:30 pm| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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The Next 5 Years in Social Media
In honor of Mashable’s five-year anniversary, this series is supported by IDG. Matt York, President of IDG’s Strategic Marketing Services explains why now is the time for marketers to conduct social experiments. Read more here.Over the last five years, social media has evolved from a handful of communities that existed...
Read more »September 7, 2010, 12:13 pm| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com
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We Make Our Turkish Celebrity Gossip TV Show Debut Thanks To The Facebook Song
At TechCrunch, we’re obviously no strangers to having our reports cited in the mainstream media from time to time. But one latest example is particularly awesome. A couple weeks ago, we mentioned the excellent Facebook music video by Turkish pop star Ismail YK. Apparently, that story led to an entire...
Read more »September 7, 2010, 11:53 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

