Top 10 Fastest Growing Facebook Games

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		Name	DAU	MAU	Daily Growth	Weekly Growth
1.		Ravenwood Fair	1,054,787	9,627,456	149,416	1,093,470
2.		It Girl	1,445,961	8,882,399	110,851	443,408
3.		Big Business	224,928	2,139,523	37,955	435,645
4.		Komşu Şehir	80,226	742,706	34,668	409,360
5.		Monster Galaxy	488,656	6,117,540	21,504	367,395
6.		Dragons of Atlantis	290,220	2,289,348	63,580	331,793
7.		Paradise Life	397,109	2,642,662	46,321	291,312
8.		Texas HoldEm Poker	7,667,471	38,133,120	102,779	270,263
9.		Happy Hospital	278,245	2,239,710	35,788	253,834
10.		Ninja Saga	1,070,256	5,133,399	93,599	228,886

Prior to Facebook, people had to use detective work and old fashionedstalker technology to find out what their exes and goofball best friendfrom third grade was up to. Those were hard times. By 2010, Facebookhas inundated the earth so thoroughly that you'll never have to rely ona shady private eye to stalk your friends and enemies again. And hereare a few facts about the business behind this incredible site.

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Social networking web site Facebook cannot be accessed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for now.
According to an official of Saudi Arabia’s Communications andInformation Technology Commission, Facebook doesn’t conform with thekingdom’s conservative values. The site is inaccessible since Saturday,but the official said blocking the site is just a temporary measure.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam and religiousleaders have strong influence over policy making and social mores.
Pakistan and Bangladesh both imposed temporary bans on Facebook this year. (With reports from AP)


Saudi Arabia - Facebook users in Saudi Arabia are having problems accessing their Facebook accounts. Facebook homepage was allegedly blocked by Saudi Arabian government today. Upon typing Facebook login page in the URL, users will be redirected to the green colored restriction page of Saudi Arabia.
Facebook users  from  Saudi Arabia can check this Yahoo! Answers discussion where other users are also complaining about the alleged Facebook ban in Saudi Arabia.

However, Facebook pages such as user’s own profile page could be accessed. Updates through user’s profile could also be made.
No official announcement has been made by the Saudi government. But according to the Yahoo! Answers thread this might be due to Islam’s mockery in Facebook.

Hey friends here are the top 10 facebook hacks and tricks and they really work and some tricks are really very interesting. I think that you all should also try it out.

Download:

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Facebook privacy policies keep going down the drain. That's enough reason for many to abandon it. Here you will find nine more:

After some reflection, I've decided to delete my account on Facebook. I'd like to encourage you to do the same. This is part altruism and part selfish. The altruism part is that I think Facebook, as a company, is unethical. The selfish part is that I'd like my own social network to migrate away from Facebook so that I'm not missing anything. In any event, here's my "Top Ten" reasons for why you should join me and many others and delete your account.

10. Facebook's Terms Of Service are completely one-sided

Let's start with the basics. Facebook's Terms Of Service state that not only do they own your data (section 2.1), but if you don't keep it up to date and accurate (section 4.6), they can terminate your account (section 14). You could argue that the terms are just protecting Facebook's interests, and are not in practice enforced, but in the context of their other activities, this defense is pretty weak. As you'll see, there's no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt. Essentially, they see their customers as unpaid employees for crowd-sourcing ad-targeting data.

9. Facebook's CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior

From the very beginning of Facebook's existence, there are questions about Zuckerberg's ethics. According to BusinessInsider.com, he used Facebook user data to guess email passwords and read personal email in order to discredit his rivals. These allegations, albeit unproven and somewhat dated, nonetheless raise troubling questions about the ethics of the CEO of the world's largest social network. They're particularly compelling given that Facebook chose to fork over $65M to settle a related lawsuit alleging that Zuckerberg had actually stolen the idea for Facebook.

8. Facebook has flat out declared war on privacy

Founder and CEO of Facebook, in defense of Facebook's privacy changes last January: "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time." More recently, in introducing the Open Graph API: "... the default is now social." Essentially, this means Facebook not only wants to know everything about you, and own that data, but to make it available to everybody. Which would not, by itself, necessarily be unethical, except that ...

7. Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch

At the same time that they're telling developers how to access your data with new APIs, they are relatively quiet about explaining the implications of that to members. What this amounts to is a bait-and-switch. Facebook gets you to share information that you might not otherwise share, and then they make it publicly available. Since they are in the business of monetizing information about you for advertising purposes, this amounts to tricking their users into giving advertisers information about themselves. This is why Facebook is so much worse than Twitter in this regard: Twitter has made only the simplest (and thus, more credible) privacy claims and their customers know up front that all their tweets are public. It's also why the FTC is getting involved, and people are suing them (and winning).

Check out this excellent timeline from the EFF documenting the changes to Facebook's privacy policy.

6. Facebook is a bully

When Pete Warden demonstrated just how this bait-and-switch works (by crawling all the data that Facebook's privacy settings changes had inadvertently made public) they sued him. Keep in mind, this happened just before they announced the Open Graph API and stated that the "default is now social." So why sue an independent software developer and fledgling entrepreneur for making data publicly available when you're actually already planning to do that yourself? Their real agenda is pretty clear: they don't want their membership to know how much data is really available. It's one thing to talk to developers about how great all this sharing is going to be; quite another to actually see what that means in the form of files anyone can download and load into MatLab.

5. Even your private data is shared with applications

At this point, all your data is shared with applications that you install. Which means now you're not only trusting Facebook, but the application developers, too, many of whom are too small to worry much about keeping your data secure. And some of whom might be even more ethically challenged than Facebook. In practice, what this means is that all your data - all of it - must be effectively considered public, unless you simply never use any Facebook applications at all. Coupled with the OpenGraph API, you are no longer trusting Facebook, but the Facebook ecosystem.

4. Facebook is not technically competent enough to be trusted

Even if we weren't talking about ethical issues here, I can't trust Facebook's technical competence to make sure my data isn't hijacked. For example, their recent introduction of their "Like" button makes it rather easy for spammers to gain access to my feed and spam my social network. Or how about this gem for harvesting profile data? These are just the latest of a series of Keystone Kops mistakes, such as accidentally making users' profiles completely public, or the cross-site scripting hole that took them over two weeks to fix. They either don't care too much about your privacy or don't really have very good engineers, or perhaps both.

3. Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to truly delete your account

It's one thing to make data public or even mislead users about doing so; but where I really draw the line is that, once you decide you've had enough, it's pretty tricky to really delete your account. They make no promises about deleting your data and every application you've used may keep it as well. On top of that, account deletion is incredibly (and intentionally) confusing. When you go to your account settings, you're given an option to deactivate your account, which turns out not to be the same thing as deleting it. Deactivating means you can still be tagged in photos and be spammed by Facebook (you actually have to opt out of getting emails as part of the deactivation, an incredibly easy detail to overlook, since you think you're deleting your account). Finally, the moment you log back in, you're back like nothing ever happened! In fact, it's really not much different from not logging in for awhile. To actually delete your account, you have to find a link buried in the on-line help (by "buried" I mean it takes five clicks to get there). Or you can just click here. Basically, Facebook is trying to trick their users into allowing them to keep their data even after they've "deleted" their account.

2. Facebook doesn't (really) support the Open Web

The so-called Open Graph API is named so as to disguise its fundamentally closed nature. It's bad enough that the idea here is that we all pitch in and make it easier than ever to help Facebook collect more data about you. It's bad enough that most consumers will have no idea that this data is basically public. It's bad enough that they claim to own this data and are aiming to be the one source for accessing it. But then they are disingenuous enough to call it "open," when, in fact, it is completely proprietary to Facebook. You can't use this feature unless you're on Facebook. A truly open implementation would work with whichever social network we prefer, and it would look something like OpenLike. Similarly, they implement just enough of OpenID to claim they support it, while aggressively promoting a proprietary alternative, Facebook Connect.

1. The Facebook application itself ****s

Between the farms and the mafia wars and the "top news" (which always guesses wrong - is that configurable somehow?) and the myriad privacy settings and the annoying ads (with all that data about me, the best they can apparently do is promote dating sites, because, uh, I'm single) and the thousands upon thousands of crappy applications, Facebook is almost completely useless to me at this point. Yes, I could probably customize it better, but the navigation is ridiculous, so I don't bother. (And, yet, somehow, I can't even change colors or apply themes or do anything to make my page look personalized.) Let's not even get into how slowly your feed page loads. Basically, at this point, Facebook is more annoying than anything else.


Facebook is clearly determined to add every feature of every competing social network in an attempt to take over the Web (this is a never-ending quest that goes back to AOL and those damn CDs that were practically falling out of the sky). While Twitter isn't the most usable thing in the world, at least they've tried to stay focused and aren't trying to be everything to everyone.

I often hear people talking about Facebook as though they were some sort of monopoly or public trust. Well, they aren't. They owe us nothing. They can do whatever they want, within the bounds of the laws. (And keep in mind, even those criteria are pretty murky when it comes to social networking.) But that doesn't mean we have to actually put up with them. Furthermore, their long-term success is by no means guaranteed - have we all forgotten MySpace? Oh, right, we have. Regardless of the hype, the fact remains that Sergei Brin or Bill Gates or Warren Buffett could personally acquire a majority stake in Facebook without even straining their bank account. And Facebook's revenue remains more or less a rounding error for more established tech companies.

While social networking is a fun new application category enjoying remarkable growth, Facebook isn't the only game in town. I don't like their application nor how they do business and so I've made my choice to use other providers. And so can you.

Source:
http://gizmodo.com/5530178/

 

Facebook ‘Draw Mohammad Day’ a Victory for Muslims – Cartoonist Molly Norris Apologizes
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Molly Norris the Cartoonist behind the condemned Facebook “DrawMohammad Day” have apologized to the Muslim world and have realized itto be her biggest mistake out of ignorance.


Following is what she says on her website:

I did NOT ‘declare’ May 20 to be “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.”
Imade a cartoon about the television show South Park being censored. (Iwish that was what our energies were going toward — protestingrevolutionmuslim.com’s threat to Comedy Central, and ComedyCentral’s over reaction to it which set America on a slippery slopetoward censorship!)
At any rate, my satirical poster, with a fake ‘group’ behind it(Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor) was taken seriously, hijackedand made viral.
I never started a facebook page; I never set up any place for pepole to send drawings to and I never received any drawings (I see that two European graduate students and another woman started the facebook pages).
My one-off cartoon does not work well as a long-term plan. Thevitriol this ‘day’ has brought out, of people who only want to drawobscene images, is offensive to Muslims who did nothing to endanger ourright to expression in the first place. Only Viacom and RevolutionMuslim are to blame, so…draw them instead!
I apologize to people of Muslim faith and ask that this ‘day’ be called off.
Thank you to those who are turning this crazy thing into an opportunity for dialogue.
Oh, and screw all of you who are mad at me for not leading a‘movement’. My cartoon was the beginning and end of what I had to sayabout this creepy, historic censorship. (By the way, where is Cowardly Central now? Pretty dang quiet. Guess they can dish it out but can’t take it.)

Sincerely,
Molly

P.S. The nicest email I have received have been from Muslims.
(I regret going on the DaveRoss radio show on April 25th, before my cartoon went viral; my egotook me there. It was a mistake to go there when I wasn’t clear aboutthings. I let myself get side-swiped. Crap!)

You can also visit her website for exact source and reference.
Sara Khan
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US Cartoonist (Molly Norris) apologize to people of Muslims for “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” page at Facebook
 
 
Molly Norris says An “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” page quicklyturned up on Facebook but Norris, writing on her website atmollynorris.com, said she had nothing to do with it,She says in hiswebsite:
I did NOT ‘declare’ May 20 to be “Everybody Draw MohammedDay.” I made a cartoon about the television show South Park beingcensored. (I wish that was what our energies were going toward —protesting revolutionmuslim.com’s threat to Comedy Central, and ComedyCentral’s over reaction to it which set America on a slippery slopetoward censorship!)

At any rate, my satirical poster, with a fake ‘group’ behindit (Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor) was taken seriously,hijacked and made viral.
I never started a facebook page; I never set up any placefor pepole to send drawings to and I never received any drawings (I seethat two European graduate students and another woman started thefacebook pages).
My one-off cartoon does not work well as a long-term plan.The vitriol this ‘day’ has brought out, of people who only want to drawobscene images, is offensive to Muslims who did nothing to endanger ourright to expression in the first place. Only Viacom and RevolutionMuslim are to blame, so…draw them instead!
I apologize to people of Muslim faith and ask that this ‘day’ be called off.
Thank you to those who are turning this crazy thing into an opportunity for dialogue.
Oh, and screw all of you who are mad at me for not leading a‘movement’. My cartoon was the beginning and end of what I had to sayabout this creepy, historic censorship. (By the way, where is CowardlyCentral now? Pretty dang quiet. Guess they can dish it out but can’ttake it.)
Source:www.mollynorris.com

“Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!”

You can see in above screenshot in search no group found,TheManagement of facebook now banned “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!”Group,But its too late becuase they ban after event had celebrated thewhole day 20th May 2010.
Every one know “Every body Draw Mohammed Day” is an group in whichJews and non- muslims are going to draw a sketch of Hazrat MuhammadPBUH(naozubillah).The Event was held on 20th Of May 2010.The Event iscreated on Facebook and more than 85,000 People have joined it.
In Pakistan the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) hasblocked Facebook over a competition encouraging its users to postcaricatures of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) on the social networkingsite.However, the court ordered complete ban till May 31 2010.But wewant to banned Permanently.

News on BBC that facebook have a loss of 2 billion Euro in 2 days, Ifwe continue after 7 days it would reach about 40 billion Euro.
In Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Facebookover a competition encouraging its users to post caricatures of ProphetMohammad (PBUH) on the social networking site.
However, the court ordered complete ban till May 31 2010.

Mobile Companies Also Banned Facebook In Pakistan

Pakistani Mobile phone companies also banned facebook over blasphemous cartoons issue.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Facebookover a competition encouraging its users to post caricatures of ProphetMohammad (PBUH) on the social networking site.
However, the court ordered complete ban till May 31 2010.

Facebook Revenue From Pakistan 2010

Facebook in Pakistan is blocked - Not opening
Facebook in Pakistanis blocked due to court orders, although its is temporarily due toLahore high court orders of 19th May 2010. So it will not opening untilfurther orders by Highcourt. Facebook site is not down, its up and running but suspended and blocked in Pakistan temporarily. Facebook.com is one of the famous website of the world, which is now banned. Can you open Facebook in Pakistan? I hope no?

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