Facebook Check-in Badges: Quite possible with Gowalla’s movement

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Don’t get surprised if you soon get a pretty badge for your Facebook check-in or other activities.

Those who have already collected many pins on Gowalla and badges on Foursquare, would easily understand what a Facebook badge might look like. And with this latest hurtle of the Gowalla team joining Facebook, the badges on Facebook seems quite possible as of the years beyond 2012. Consider the fact that quality design work has always been the priority and specialty of Gowalla.

Starting from the ban on Google+ ads on Facebook, development of the ‘timeline’, counter suit on timeline.com, latest ticker ad development, then declaration of a new office in New York in the coming days the strategy of Zuckerberg’s team seems pretty much clear as they are lanning/moving in a real agile towards the IPO launch by April, 2012.

Google+ Trending Topics vs. Twitter Trending Topics

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Google+ trending topics list is the latest block structured by Google that floats exactly on the “keep changing” theory of social media waves. It was added to the Google+ bounty on 17th Nov, 2011 as per the sources.

As of 18th Nov, 2011, Mashable ennobles this latest addition by Google+ as a competitive move against twitter’s trending topics, whereas Webpronews.com considers the undeniable fact of the receding differences in between the social media giants Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.

Is the New Twitter Activity Feature Insane?

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Change is the law that rules the social media and the addition of the new twitter activity feature is just an analogue to the same.

Though the announcement for the brand new twitter activity tab was made as early as on August, 2011 on this blog post by twitter, yet it functionally came into being only on last Thursday 10th Nov, 2011.

Facebook on Spotlight and f8 at Stock

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Thursday brings great relief to almost everyone worldwide, as it brings the weekend nearer, but not for Facebook this time.

WF this Thursday stores for FB?

Facebook to lift the Character Limit to 5000 words from 500 words

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These all days since I migrated from Orkut to Facebook, I have been wondering - why Facebook doesn't allow us to write more than 500 characters/words! Suddenly, with the evolution of Google+ I found a nicer platform to share my never ending feelings with more than 500+ characters/words. Yes, it was Google+ who introduced the the upper limit first.

Facebook Fights Google+ on the Next Battle Field of Social Gaming

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To add to the downfall of Facebook, Google+ has introduced its latest gaming platform for the users as per the official Google Blog post ‘Fun that fits your schedule’. The main cut throat competitive edge that Google+ games bear is the negligible amount of commission compared to that of charged by Facebook. It’s 5% in Google+ whereas for Facebook it is 30% - feel the heat.

The G+ official blog post on launch says: “Today we’re adding games to Google+. With the Google+ project, we want to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to the web. But sharing is about more than just conversations. The experiences we have together are just as important to our relationships. We want to make playing games online just as fun, and just as meaningful, as playing in real life.”

Angry Birds Leaving Zynga Far Behind in the Race of Social Gaming

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While Techcrunch & CNET are reporting the Facebook user-base to reach the level of 750 millions, Social Gaming is also on parallel rise. It has gradually replaced the conventional games and assumed new importance in the modern world and that is the gaming scene under the prevalence of great social networking era now a day.

It is no more restricted to children but is engaging the adults on equal levels too.