Tag: FACEBOOK APPS

On the heels of its wildly popular, Facebook soccer game 'FIFA Superstars,' EA has now decided to bring everyone's favorite video game to the world's most popular social network. As USA Today reports, the game maker recently launched a new Facebook version of its famed NFL game, entitled 'Madden NFL Superstars.' Much like 'FIFA Superstars,' which EA launched before the World Cup, the company's ...

Share At this point, we've been well-trained not to trust Facebook applications -- and seemingly with good reason, since every week another hack or phishing scam pops up. What makes the two most recent instances special, though, is their brazenness -- hiding in plain sight, and relying on people's gullibility to spread across the social network like wildfire. First up is yet another mock IQ ...

Pine for your glory days but hate pulling those dusty old yearbooks from the attic? Well, Classmates.com hopes to provide a solution with some new changes to its site. According to Tech Flash, the social networking site that just won't die plans on digitizing yearbooks over the next couple years, and charging users to view and customize full-size images from their high school or college days. ...

Share Facebook's little snafu with the 'un named app' is nothing compared to the latest bug discovered by All Facebook. The social network's new dashboard features, which at the moment are only available if you have the Facebook Developer app installed, allows you to see what applications your friends have or had installed -- whether they want you to or not. The applications and games ...

Nothing corresponds to the old "finger on the pulse" idiom quite like a social networking site. Facebook and Twitter, in particular, have become increasingly effective anthropological tools, as the sites provide instantaneous and unrivaled data about trends in pop culture. Since it's currently the seasonal period of awesome lists and rankings, Facebook is taking a look back to see which trends ...

The Coca-Cola advertising gurus who developed the humorous and creative Coke Zero conspiracy duo are attempting to bring an interactive version of that successful campaign to Facebook. The Coke Zero facial profile app seeks to answer the question, "If Coke Zero has Coke's taste, is it possible someone out there has your face?" The app scans your Facebook photos and attempts to match similar faces ...

Update: In response to Canada's Office of the Privacy Commisioner's yearlong investigation of Facebook's privacy policies, Facebook has announced that it will improve privacy controls for users. More after the break. In a surprising bit of news from CNET, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has taken issue with Facebook's treatment of its users' privacy. As anybody who's spent time on ...

When Facebook gifts displaying cute puppies and baby penguins can no longer satisfy your lust for online treacle, you can always kick it up a notch and give Britney Spears. Yes, leave it to the former boa-constrictor-wearing, Madonna-kissing pop queen to plaster her likeness on the social networking site's virtual gifts. According to TechCrunch, the collection of Britney-themed gifts were ...

Facebook-stalking has become so ingrained in pop culture that it's warranted mentions in TV shows, earned an entry in UrbanDictionary, and even inspired a stalker Web site. Tapping into that Net surveillance hoopla, a new Facebook app, 'Stalker Check,' allows social networkers to track their most ardent followers. The app accounts for wall posts, gifts, pokes, invites, and other activities in ...

The name 'Kaplan' may bring to mind tedious preparation for standardized tests like the SAT or ACT. That seems to be exactly the reputation the company is trying to shake with its new Facebook application 'SmashWall.' The idea, as you might expect, is that you smash things against a wall. Once installed, the app (which can be added to your Facebook page here) lets you throw digital objects, like ...

The benefits of friendship will never rival the beauty of free food. Burger King found that out the hard way. Facebook has disabled the Whopper Sacrifice application after 233,906 "friends" were sacrificed in the name of hunger (or obesity). In case you missed it, Burger King released a Facebook application that promised a free burger if you removed ten people from your friend list. It is a ...

The folks at Burger King have come to Facebook and they're not making many friends. Actually, they're asking you to sacrifice yours, we learned from the blog So Good. The fast food purveyors have released a new Facebook application in conjunction with the debut of the Angry Whopper (a spicy version of the original), giving the new burgers away for free. Of course, there is a slightly ...

Well, with one fell swoop Facebook may have put a whole class of applications out to pasture. A new feature rolled out by the social networking service sends you a weekly notice of your friends' upcoming birthdays, which makes popular applications like Birthday Calendar and Birthday Alert redundant. The birthday alert business is big money. Social networking service Beebo (owned by our parent ...

Remember that Facebook-based Scrabble knock-off we told you about, Scrabulous? Well we knew it ruffled Hasbro's feathers, but making the lil' Scrabble-wanna-be obsolete and crushing it like a bug looks like it won't be enough for the board game super power. Hot on the heels of the official EA-developed Scrabble Facebook application's release, Hasbro has announced it will be sueing the makers of ...

It was bound to happen eventually (if for no other reason than MySpace did it first) -- Facebook is finally offering up an instant-messaging service. Ironically, Facebook's new IM service may have the effect of killing off a couple of chat applications already available on the social-networking site. Initial rumors claimed that the new Facebook IM service, which is to be embedded into people's ...