Saudi Arabia: A Firehose of users are joining Facebook [Based on Report]

Do I have to link to Facebook homepage for you to know it? of course not. According to the Arab youth survey, visiting social networks comes the 3rd most important activity after emailing. Saudi Arabia showed unprecedented increase in the number of registrants on Facebook for the month of March according to the paid report Facebook Global Monitor. While registration from Saudi Arabia had achieved only 5.8 percent growth in February, the report interestingly... Read More

Facebook Toolbar Now Speaks Arabic

Originally launched in English language for the Firefox browser only, Facebook Toolbar was released today to for Internet Explorer browser as well and made both browser versions available in a total of 16 languages including Arabic. Facebook Toolbar can be used easily utilize the most common sections and applications on Facebook in a one click-away, including your Facebook home page, profile page and inbox to check out the latest direct messages.... Read More

Facebook Launches The Third F8 Developer Conference

Facebook platform launches Third f8 to empower its community of developers that owns over 500,000 applications and over 300 of those have more than one million users each to hack, to build and to delight users. f8 will take place on April 21-22, 2010 in San Francisco. The first f8 conference was launched with 800 developers and entrepreneurs at that time. It helped build the innovative applications which paved the way for developers around the world... Read More

Two Arab Digital Firms Team-Up To Provide Facebook Games

This week during the Dubai World Game Expo, Maysalward (MRD) and Rotana Media Services Interactive (RMSi) announced plans to launch the first localized Facebook game .With this launch Maysalward takes another bold step into the Gaming market, the Jordanian based company launching their own Facebook Game hand in hand with Rotana Media Services Group ,which will handle commercial management of Maysalward coming Facebook Games. The first game, Trix,... Read More

Facebook Finds New Ways Engage with Your Favorite Applications

In 2007, Facebook API launched a third-party application submission, whereby Facebook team has seen over 350,000 applications built on the Facebook Platform so far, in areas ranging from sports and games to family and education. These applications were built to accompany the core Facebook applications like photos, events and groups. In order to offer you a smooth experience regardless of what applications you’re interacting with on the site. Here’s... Read More

Peace on Facebook Launches: Promoting Friendships Between Muslims and …

Facebook and a Stanford University lab specializing in innovative and persuasive technology have launched Peace on Facebook http://peace.facebook.com. But does it have the Road-map for Palestinian-Israeli conflict that we have been seeking for the past 60 years? This platform aims to show friend connections created each day between people of different countries, religions, and political affiliations. Also, it allows you to share your thoughts on what... Read More

Top 15 Facebook Applications As of October 27th

Today, most Facebook users use 3rd party facebook application to add some fun and personality to their Facebook profile. Their purpose is to generate content that the user finds is relevant or of interest to them.  The Top Facebook applications so of October 27th, 2009. These information will be provided on our website more frequently and powered by appdata.  Read More

Facebook Changed Your Homepage; What Do You Think?

While building community portals, user-homepage remains top priority to the IA/design/development teams in order to allow you to see what is going on with the people and things you care about most, since we are talking about Facebook here. That’s why  Facebook team has started to roll out some changes to the home page that simplify your experience by offering two views of News Feed: a summary view of the most interesting activity that’s... Read More

Inside Facebook Report: Most Growing Middle East Countries

If you are not on Facebook, you are most probably receiving continuous friends’ invites to register on Facebook, or if you are on Facebook already with email notification turned ON, you are most probably receiving continuous friends’ connect as well who recently joined the site. Facebook is evolving worldwide and it’s happening in the Middle East too. Facebook has significantly grown in the Middle East after launching the Arabic... Read More

Unprecedented Turkish Trend: The Facebook Wave

Forget about Google Wave for a second and take a look at another one.  There is a real prominent Facebook user wave coming from Turkey. An unprecedented Turkish trend in search for “Facebook” keyword shows Google Trends figures and graphs. Turkey of population 74,000,000 has 1/3 internet population penetration (approximately 24,000,000) according to Internetworldstats; whereby Google Trends shows the following: Turkey is number 1 by... Read More

Just Released: Awaited Facebook 3.0 iPhone App

Facebook 3.0 iPhone application was very much awaited app in the Middle East since it’s submission 2 weeks back. This version is coming with a better user-interface for sure, in addition to some new major features like: 1. Videos – instant post video (if you are lucky and have iPhone 3GS) 2. Profile page – comment, mark “Like”, and view Profile images. 3. Event’s page – view additional details and RSVP 4.... Read More

New Facebook App: Ramadan Prayer Time + Greetings

While celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, a new application has been launched for Muslim community on facebook.com by Synergie Media. This small interactive agency in Morocco has launched it’s first version of Ramadan Prayer Time facebook application that is available for thousands of cities worldwide (approximately 250.000 cities). Ramadan Times feature - offers five prayer times calculation methods so that you may be able to switch between... Read More

Arab Apps Vs Facebook Verification Program

Along with the anticipated launch of Facebook Platform’s Application Verification Program very soon which is an optional new program designed to provide applications with a way to stand out and reassure users that they will provide a good experience. Are we “Arab geeks” ready and willing to verify our facebook applications that already exist or under-development? I believe if your application... Read More