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Top 25 Facebook Games for December 1, 2009


Last month we compared the 11 month span between the present and our first Top 25 list. Even then the difference in monthly active users was absolutely astounding. Of course, in the past month, it has only increased. To recap, the top game, one year ago, was (Lil) Green Patch, a simple 2D virtual-garden-like game that garnered around 6 million users a month. FarmVille, now has nearly 69 million users. Facebook’s growth to much more than 300 million monthly active users has certainly contributed to the rise of social gaming, but we continue to wonder how much social gaming has contributed to the growth of Facebook itself.
November saw a great deal of individual game growth throughout most of the Top 25, but the top five have not changed in the slightest – something we haven’t seen in a while. The month also saw the rise of CrowdStar, as well as the rapid growth of Zynga’s FishVille and the belated appearance of Mobsters 2. Beyond this, there was a great deal of churn across the board. Here are the highlights:
  • Zynga’s FarmVille continued its growth by more than 6 million monthly active users to nearly 70 million. However, this is only a little more than half of what it earned last month. Meanwhile, YoVille lost more than 500,000 users and going from from #6 to #8. Roller Coaster Kingdom stayed at #11 with close to 15.5 million MAUs.
  • CrowdStar’s Happy Aquarium continued to grow, holding on to the #4 spot, despite the number of Zynga titles around it. The virtual aquarium game is followed on the list by Playfish’s Pet Society at #5. CrowdStar’s second title on the list, Happy Pets, came in at #22 with almost 5.5 million users.
  • After weeks on our Top Gaining Charts, FishVille has made a splash at #6 with more than 21 million users.
  • MindJolt Games lost 1.1 million MAU to land at #12.
  • And finally, long after its initial release, Mobsters 2: Vendetta from Playdom has made its way into the charts with roughly 5.3 million MAUs, followed by another newcomer, My Fishbowl from 6 waves at #24 with a monthly user count just shy of 5 million.[via www.insidesocialgames.com]

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Foreign Apps and Valentines on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging List

New applications from around the globe and a non-Zynga attempt at a Farmville gifting app brings in players on this week’s top 20 emerging list for the week ending January 7. The emerging list is a way to spot rapid growth in titles that ended the week with below 1 million monthly active users.
2010’s first app to go from zero to first on the top 20 emerging list is FarmVille Gift Sender. According to AppData, the Farmville “add-on” (it’s a separate app) shot from nothing to reach more than half a million people in its first week. This isn’t surprising considering Farmville’s 30 million plus daily active users who presumably make up most of the app’s audience. It wouldn’t be surprising to see Zynga get this app shut down shortly due to its intellectual property issues.
Top Gainers This Week

Name
MAU
Gain↓
Gain, %
1.
icon FarmVille Gift Sender
504,499
+455,155
+90.22
2.
icon Garden World
438,570
+433,115
+98.76
3.
icon Three Kingdoms Online – Best Browser Game of 2009!
460,090
+202,415
+43.99
4.
icon Will you be my valentine?
394,672
+187,112
+47.41
5.
icon My Town
320,996
+176,592
+55.01
6.
icon Yılbaşı Kartları
259,136
+163,923
+63.26
7.
icon zelim ti..
262,980
+143,178
+54.44
8.
icon Who Has The Best Profile Picture ?
192,030
+130,451
+67.93
9.
icon Travel Balloon
889,498
+127,313
+14.31
10.
icon Bite Me
510,929
+124,920
+24.45
11.
icon 快打之王
728,072
+122,745
+16.86
12.
icon Poll Daddy Polls
274,976
+120,725
+43.90
13.
icon New Year Wish!
228,531
+117,014
+51.20
14.
icon Chinese New Year Gift – 新春禮物
128,234
+104,393
+81.41
15.
icon 歡樂癲地 Funland
587,289
+94,413
+16.08
16.
icon Warstorm
313,678
+92,698
+29.55
17.
icon I Love Chocolate
449,577
+92,119
+20.49
18.
icon Happy New Year!
107,286
+89,707
+83.61
19.
icon 傾城 Online
166,927
+89,381
+53.54
20.
icon Birthday Greeting Cards
597,641
+87,121
+14.58
Garden World is Tall Tree Game’s flower-growing app, and a game that has been live since last year. This week sees a restart for the app with the ability to see neighbors/friends gardens adding to a new overall total. That addition has boosted the app to have the highest gaining percentage of any app on the list with 99 percent this week, or 433,000 new players.
Users must have been inspired by the confident name, because Three Kingdoms Online – Best Browser Game of 2009! is in the top five two weeks in a row. The app moves up one spot to third and has a MAU of 460,000 players.
Perhaps speaking too soon about seasonal apps, Will you be my valentine? makes a strong showing with 47 percent an MAU of 395,000 and over a month to gain users before Valentine’s Day on February 14th. The app is benefiting from a strong showing last year and it will be interesting to see if any new titles are released this month to capitalize on the season the same way developers did for Christmas.

Foreign language apps appear to be coming in to their own with regular appearances on all top 20 gaining lists. Six foreign language apps make up this weeks top 20. Four are Chinese-language apps: 快打之王, Chinese New Year Gift – 新春禮物歡樂癲地 Funland and 傾城 Online.
Chinese New Year Gift – 新春禮物 gained the most users from last week, making its first appearance on the list at 14 with 128,000 MAU and rising 81 percent this week. Meanwhile 快打之王 (“King of Kombat”) fell the most spots this week of any app, eight spots from last week where it ranked third overall.
Yılbaşı Kartları (“Christmas Cards”) is in its second week on the list and is the first Turkish app on a top 20 list. Turkey typically trades gifts around New Years which explains the Christmas theme, but its still a large number for any Turkish app.
zelim ti.. (“I want you ..”) is another small language app making its first appearance on the list. The app received a 54 percent increase for a seventh place spot on the list, its first appearance on the emerging list and probably the first Serbian language app on a top 20 as well.
Travel Balloon has the highest MAU this week and should break through the emerging lists restrictions once again to top 1 million MAU next week as long as its growth stay consistent. It will be joining last weeks title Ma Fiche which broke 1 million users this week.[via insidefacebook.com]

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Yahoo! Launches New Homepage


Yahoo! Inc. is launching a new homepage that brings together the best of the Web with the best of Yahoo! in a single destination across PC and Mobile Phones.
The launch represent the most significant change to the Yahoo! homepage since the company's inception. By enabling this level of personalization, Yahoo! allows people to get more done, faster, all in a single place.
Remember that new Yahoo home page we previewed waaaay back in September 2008?

New features of the Yahoo! homepage include:
  •  My favorites - People can easily choose from a dashboard of more than 38 apps to add directly to their homepage, including best of sites (Facebook and dozens of others. These apps gives people the  ability to preview, interact with or navigate to thier favorite sites from one easy check-in point.
  • App Maker - Using technology developed by Yahoo!, people can easily create their own app on the fly by adding virtually any URL of their choice.
  • Trend Setter - A new snapshot of trends, including the most popular searches and fun facts from around the Web.
  • Pc to Mobile Sync - (coming soon) - People will be able to continue their Yahoo! experience on the go with a more seamless PC to mobile integration. New apps added to Yahoo! homepage on the PC can be added to the mobile homepage.
  • News, For You -  Hyper-local news and the ability to toggle the news module at the top of the page offer easier ways to access the news that matters most.
  • Social Updates - People can now share their current "status" with friends directly from the homepage, get visibility into what their friends are doing across the Web, and integrate with leading social networks such as Facebook and Friendster.
" The Friendster application on the New Yahoo! homepage allow users quick access to their network     activity stream, photos, shout-outs, comments and much more", said David Jones vice president for global product Friendster.

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Win a Sony DVP - SR400 DVD Player

Play SMART Rewards Craze and get a chance to win a Sony DVP - SR400 DVD Player!

GAMES MECHANICS
1.Create a profile by registering your personal data at the Registration Page. Once registration is successful, use the Username and Password you supplied to access the game.



2. Play the Mini-games to earn Play Money. Play Money is the virtual currency you need to obtain Game Credits for use in placing a bid at the Auction Page.

3. Getting Game Credits. Play Money earned by playing the games must be converted to Game Credits in order to place a bid at the Auction. You have two options to get Game Credits:
a. Covert Play Money - Click on the CONVERT PLAY MONEY TO GAME CREDITS tab, enter the amount of Play Money to be converted and click on Submit. Once Play Money has been converted to Game Credits, it cannot be converted back to Play Money.


b. Covert Smart Rewards points - Click on the CONVERT SMART REWARDS POINTS TO GAME CREDITS tab, use the calculator to determine how much Game Credits you can get for your Smart Rewards points, and follow the on-screen instructions. Converted Smart Rewards points will be automatically credited to your Game Credits upon receiving the confirmation message from Smart. Just hit the refresh button. Once Smart Rewards points have been converted to Game Credits, it cannot be converted back to Smart Rewards points.

4. Auction Room. In the auction room, Smart Rewards registered subscribers can use their earned Game Credits to place a bid for the featured item of the month. To register to Smart Rewards, follow the on-screen instructions. Players who are not registered to Smart Rewards cannot enter in the Auction Room.

5. Inviting Friends. Inviting Friends. Invite your friends to play Smart Rewards Craze and you could get 1,000 extra Play Money. You can invite friends via: 




a. In-game invite feature:
Get 1,000 Play Money for every friend who registers to Smart Rewards Craze. Just click on the “INVITE FRIENDS TO EARN MORE PLAY MONEY” button found on the upper-right corner of the game.
Type in your friends’ email addresses separate by a comma (,).


b. Facebook Application:
This requires that you have a Facebook account. Type “SMART REWARDS CRAZE” in the Search box found in the upper-right corner of your profile.




Click on “GO TO APPLICATION” 







and start inviting your friends!





6. Play Monies and Game Credits are non-convertible to cash or to Smart Rewards points and do not have any value outside of the Game and/or the Auction. Any unused Play Money and/or Game Credit at the end of the Promo will be forfeited. After every auction, all unused Game Credits earned from playing the games will forfeited. However, all unused Game Credits earned from Rewards Points conversion (redemption) will still be available for use in the next auctions. Any unused Play Money and/or Game Credit at the end of the Promo will be forfeited.

7. Winners of the auction, and the three (3) closest bidders, will receive a call from Smart via access number 7777 for details on how to claim their prizes. The names of the Grand prize and consolation prize winners will be posted at the Auction page and will be displayed for three (3) days until the start of the next auction. Winners will not be asked for their account details. An auction winner may only win one auction in the entire promo duration. Users who have already won in a previous auction will not be able to enter the Auction Room in the next auctions.
8. Winners are given 60 days from date of callout to claim their prizes. All unclaimed prizes after the 60-day claim period has expired will be forfeited in favor of Smart.

The Rewards-o-Rama promo (herein referred to as the “Promo”) wherein Smart Communications, Inc. (herein referred to as “SMART”) shall be giving away prizes for an online auction (the “Auction”) in an online game (the “Game”) available to active SMART subscribers who registered to the Smart Rewards loyalty program (herein referred to as the “Subscriber”). The Promo shall be governed by the following Rules, including any amendment, also available at the website www.smart.com.ph/rewards.

1. The Promo will run from August 21, 2009 to January 21, 2010.

2. The Game is open to any who visit and create a profile at www.smart.com.ph/rewards (the “Player”), which will redirect them to the Smart Rewards website: http://rewards.smart.net.ph/. Information submitted can be used by Smart for whatever purpose appropriate to the Promo and to Smart Rewards such as, but not limited to, cross-selling of Smart promos via SMS and/or email, SMS and/or email blasts to encourage Smart Rewards registrations, and updating of subscriber records.

3. The Player will need to play each mini-game to earn “Play Money” which the Player needs to convert to “Game Credits” to participate in the Auction. Players must play the Game as defined in the mechanics available at the Game page.

4. Only Subscribers can participate in the Auction. A player needs to register to Smart Rewards, only available to Smart subscribers with individual accounts, to be able to log into the Auction. Players not registered to Smart Rewards cannot enter the Auction but can still participate in the Game. Smart Corporate accounts, service units, Talk ‘n Text, Infinity, retailer MINs and subscribers of other carriers cannot register to Smart Rewards.

5. Registration to Smart Rewards subjects the Subscriber to the Terms and Conditions of the Smart Rewards loyalty program which can be found at the Smart Rewards website: www.smart.com.ph/rewards.

6. The max bid feature of the auction page is a system feature that places an automatic bid to outbid other players within the parameters set by the Player. Use of the max bid feature is completely optional and Smart will not be held responsible for any problems arising from the use of said feature such as the loss of Game Credits or unwanted spending of Game Credits due to untracked bidding. Smart will not credit back spent Game Credits.

7. The Subscriber with the highest bid at the end of the auction period as defined in the auction page will win the featured item for the month as defined in the Game. The three (3) closest bidders will also win consolation prizes from Smart.

8. Prizes are non-transferable and non-convertible to cash.

9. The decision of SMART is final and inappealable.

10. The status of the account must be ACTIVE prior to delivery of the prizes. If the account is inactive, the Subscriber shall be informed to activate his subscription before any delivery is made. Subscriber is given 30-days from date the Subscriber is informed of his inactive status with regard to the Promo to activate the account, otherwise, the prize is forfeited in favor of SMART.

11. By participating in the Promo, the Player agrees to these Terms and Conditions, the Terms and Conditions of the Smart Rewards program and the Terms and Conditions of Facebook, wherever applicable. In case of conflict between said Terms and Conditions, the Terms and Conditions of the Promo shall prevail.

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