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Facebook Marketing Bible
The newly revised, expanded, and hot-off-the-press Facebook Marketing Bible: 40+ Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook - October 2009 Edition is now available!

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A few companies running specialized content, like coupons and video trailers, are also seeing solid growth on this week’s list of the top 20 growing pages on Facebook. But same as last week, the number one page is for the Turkish national flag. October 29th was the 86th anniversary of the R...
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Nearly a month ago, we first reported that gaming giant EA was looking to buy Playfish. Today, the deal is official. The purchase price is $275 million in cash, with $25 million in “equity retention arrangements,” according to the press release, as well as “a maximum of $100 mil...
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The Big Diesel is once again lending his fame to a Facebook campaign, teaming up with Toys “R” Us to help raise money for the Toys for Tots program. Toys “R” Us is donating $1 to the cause for every fan the Toys R Us Facebook page collects between now and Dec. 6, and Shaq-...
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One of the founding features that made Facebook so popular is the ability to easily share photos with friends and family. Of course, among the billions of photos that have been posted, there are inevitably a few that some users probably wish would go away forever. A branded application from deter...
Lili McDonald

Lili McDonald In your November edition, you talk about Starbucks and NewEgg contests... how do you suggest that we do similar contests, specfically how to keep track of those that become a fan / like a post, etc?

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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, November 2, 2009Top 25 Facebook Games for November 2, 2009Top 25 MySpace Games for November 2, 2009The Future of Offer Monet...
Darren Williams

Darren Williams Just found out about 'InsideFacebook.com' via doing some research around the issue of Regional Networks & there mysterious disappearance. Found a link to your Webpage on this issue in the help section.

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Claudio Nogueira

Claudio Nogueira
Can anyone tell me if this kind of e-mail (see below) it’s not a virus or something? It comes with a zip.The thing is...i’ve tried to open the zip in my windows computer and the result was a crash in the system.

Dear Facebook user,

Due to Facebook policy changes, all Facebook users must submit a new, updated accoun...t a...greement, regardless of their original account start date.Accounts that do not submit the updated account agreement by the deadline will have restricted.Please unzip the attached file and run "agreement.exe" by double-clicking it.

Thanks,

The Facebook Team
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theKbuzz | Social Media and Word of Mouth Marketing

theKbuzz | Social Media and Word of Mouth Marketing  Breaking: Facebook's New Promo Guidelines for Page | What it Means for Marketers http://thk.bz/2q via InsideFacebook.com

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These days, running promotions on Facebook Pages and inside Facebook apps is one of the simplest and most effective ways of engaging Facebook users. However, while Facebook does allow third parties to ...
Fri at 7:34pm
Facebook and Government

Facebook and Government  InsideFacebook.com has a post about "10 Ways Facebook Pages Can Help Local Governments Better Serve Their Constituents" that's full of great tips on how local government can best utilize Facebook.

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Facebook offers a number of unique advantages in helping local governments do a better job of listening to their bosses, from features like status updates, to the wall, to applications for polling, longer discussions, videos and photos, and much else. And it’s the most popular social network in the ...
Fri at 1:40pm
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These days, running promotions on Facebook Pages and inside Facebook apps is one of the simplest and most effective ways of engaging Facebook users. However, while Facebook does allow third parties to run contests and promotions on Facebook, it has been posting increasingly specific guidelines th...
Madalyn Sklar
Madalyn Sklar
Thanks for the info!
Fri at 12:43pm
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There are a few diamonds in the rough mix of simple applications on this week’s list of the top 20 up and coming apps. We put this list together by looking at the applications with between 100,000 and 1 million monthly active users in AppData, sorted by which applications gained the most us...
Tom Emerson
Tom Emerson
I'm not entirely sure how the words "legit game" and "quiz app that deceives users into clicking on an IQ quiz" belong in the same sentence, but presumably that's the top one now [in fact, I see on my wall one of my friends just posted it - grrrr]
Fri at 10:40am
Chelsea Eyland
Chelsea Eyland
can you figure out the constant syntax errors I keep getting when I'm trying to use my fav apps?? It's been all of a sudden and TERRIBLY annoying.
Fri at 11:15am
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A new plug-in for Facebook from music player WinAmp may be a long-awaited key to comprehensive music sharing that has been lacking from the site — at least for people who still use Winamp. I am Listening To gives Facebook users the ability to share what they’re listening to at any giv...
Mike

Mike Appreciate the work here peeps, superb.

Fri at 9:50am · Report
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Retailers that are launching or beefing up their Facebook pages may not be able to easily track a monetary return on the time and energy spent on the pages, but many are starting to see benefits. Engaging in customers and building large fan followings is giving retailers like Kohl’s valuabl...