6 Best Facebook Games of 2012

facebook-gamesPossibility to play online games in the social network is a very import feature of the Facebook. Perhaps, the social network can not yet boast with the most convinient online entertainment: endless notification pop-ups and offers to buy something.

However, we are glad to present following six best Facebook games of 2012: a carefully selected and definitely worth to pay attention to.

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Facebook Messenger Ultimate Update

facebook_messanger_updateFacebook recently rolled out Messenger update for the Android operating system, that seemed to be very ambitious: its users will no longer need to have a Facebook account in order to successfully work with the application.

This is an important step of the social network on the way to the desired market dominance in the text messages area.

The possibility to communicate with your Facebook pals providing only your phone number and name for the Facebook Messaging app, can make it much more popular among users.

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iTunes Credits Now on Facebook Gifts

facebook_itunes_certificatesUsers of the social network now can buy iTunes credits for their friends via Facebook Gifts service.

Together with the 10, 15, 25 or 50 dollars gift certificate for Digital Content and Applications in the Apple iTunes Store, the sender can also suggest to a friend which exactly music album, movie or application to buy.

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Facebook Friendship Pages Redesigned

facebook_friendship_icoThe social network introduced a radically new design of the friendship pages. If you want to see how close you are online with a particular friend or a member of your family, your friendship page with him will show all the posts, photos and events that you shared online together.

This is a great feature – especially for those ones who are in a “relationship” with another user in Facebook.

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Social Media Study: Last 7 Days of the US Presidential Election Race 2012

economistSocial Searcher team is glad to present social media study about US Elections candidates mentions on Facebook and Twitter. We thought that it might be interesting to measure up the last 7 days of the elections race when most of people get their final choise.

Recently launched Social Buzz search engine was used for gathering data.

Do you think social mentions information can forecast the result of election? Then go on reading and get some more interesting facts.

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6 Tools for Downloading Your Photos from Facebook

facebook_photo_downloadStoring all your photos in one place is not a good idea. May be someday you’ll want to switch to another social network or leave the online world at all, anyway, it’s better to have a possibility to save all images that were posted on Facebook.

And today we’ll look into a few applications that will help you to save all the photographs that you were tagged on or published in your albums.

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Facebook Stock Adds 10% on Mobile Ad Revenue News

facebook_stockThe stock quotes of the world’s largest social network climbed 10% after the publication of the mobile advertising revenue report which grew by 14 percent in the Q3 2012.

According to the report, in the third quarter of this year, the social network increased its total revenue by 32% up to $ 1.26 billion, topper forecasts of the analysts.

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Facebook Billion Users Infographic

facebook_billion_logoThe European Marketing Agency KRDS published a new 1 billion Facebook users infographic, which worth to have a look.

Let’s go deeper and try to understand what is behind this huge 1 billion number.

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Facebook Tests Want and Collect Buttons

facebook_wantFacebook is testing a new “Want” and “Collect” buttons for online retailers, that can be used for adding products into wish lists called “Collections”. The new feature will allow Facebook users to see in the news feed items that their friends would like to have.

“Want” and “Collect” buttons are the latest in the series of the social network innovations, that were presented in the last few weeks in an attempt to find new ways to make a profit and attract investors interest.

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Facebook’s Future in 10 Years

facebook_futureA few days ago Facebook overcame 1 billion users level (we highlighted analysts predictions of this fact before), and Mark Zuckerberg said about his hopes for the future union of the world in Facebook.

It’s a good time to think about the future of the social network and whether it will even exist, for example, in 10 years?

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