Most Popular*
*based on things other than popularity
Yesterday, Facebook made waves by revealing that a game called Gardens of Time was the “most popular” game on their platform in 2011. The only problem? It’s total bullshit.
Only after Josh Constine called them out, did Facebook highlight the fact that “most popular” didn’t actually have much to do with number of people actually playing the games as much as it was based on ratings of the games from a select group of users.
Why does this matter? Because Gardens of Time isn’t made by Zynga, the social game company that dominates Facebook’s platform. It sure looks like Facebook was trying to convey that their platform isn’t dominated by Zynga. As Constine puts it:
It’s almost as if Facebook used its cloudy methodology to keep Zynga from completely dominating the list, as the Mark Pincus machine currently owns all 5 Facebook games with the most DAU and still ended up with 4 of the top 10 spots on Facebook’s list.
Facebook’s post and list was disingenuous at best, pure jackassery at worst.
As Constine points out, Zynga’s CityVille had a peak of 100 million monthly active users. Gardens of Time had a peak of 17 million monthly active users. Which one would you say is the “most popular”?
The advice is to log out of Facebook. But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application, a number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com. Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.Logging out of Facebook is not enough, via Mike Rose. Wow. (via nikf)
(via nikf)
Hotel in Ibiza connects Facebook with tech wristbands for social media crazy clubbers
(Source: youtube.com)
McDonald’s Burger Roulette
(Source: youtube.com)
Facebook usage statistics Dec 31st 2010 vs Dec 31st 2009 vs Dec 31st 2008
FUCK YEAH INDONESIA!
A LIFE ON FACEBOOK — Story of a man told through Facebook. (by maxluere)
Top 40 Fan Pages on Facebook Revealed
(New) Facebook In Real Life
Design at Facebook
Interesting design process of a 25 design team in Facebook
facebook takes over the world
Don’t skip breakfast
My breakfast lunch dinner would be, in no particular order: twitter, tumblr, google reader. Sometimes snacks: flickr, delicious, linkedin, facebook. What’s yours?
Just grabbed http://facebook.com/gueamu. So friends, you can add me up there ;-)
