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'Sims Social' Leaves the Farm Behind
EA and Playfish's The Sims Social has overtaken Zynga's FarmVille in daily active users on Facebook, an achievement that makes it EA’s most successful Facebook game. During the past 24 hours, almost 9.48 million people became the deity of their own Sims inhabitants on Facebook, according to statistics from AppData. That’s significantly more than the 8.25 million who chose to cultivate the virtual soil of FarmVille during the same time period.
Twitter's Powers Used for Ill
Things went horribly wrong between TV network news and Twitter this weekend, although the blame doesn’t lie with CBS, NBC or Twitter. A content affiliate of CBSNews.com falsely reported the death of Steve Jobs, and NBC News had its Twitter account hacked and used to spread fake terrorist attack information.
FilmFunds Crowd-Sources the Test Screening [inc. Video]
FilmFunds, a new company designed to replace test screenings with a social platform, launched at the Toronto International Film Festival. FilmFunds brings together crowd sourcing, gamification, personal interaction and even tools that determine emotional response to help decision-makers at all stages of a project’s creation.
Canv.as Leaves Beta, No Longer Blank
Canvas, an online community for sharing, remixing and otherwise interacting with images, is now open to the public. This new endeavor is a friendlier and tidier site than founder Christopher Poole’s early creation 4chan, evidence of the $3.6 million investment Canvas has raised.
Google Ventures Finds a Friend in Echoecho
Google Ventures, the investment arm of Mountain View-based Google, said it has invested in Los Angeles-based Echoecho, developer of a location-based mobile app for finding friends. The investment was part of a $750,000 seed round that also included participation from U.K.-based venture firm PROfounders Capital.
Facebook Names Former White House Chief of Staff to Board
Social network Facebook has named Erskine Bowles, the former administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) and White House Chief of Staff under President Clinton, to its board of directors.Bowles currently serves as the president emeritus of the 17-campus University of North Carolina system, and also holds board positions with Morgan Stanley, Cousins Properties, Norfolk Southern and Belk.
Taiwan Animators Enter the TechCrunch Fray [video]
The peculiar genius of Next Media’s animation team has reduced the TechCrunch situation into one of the company’s characteristically simplified videos at NMA.TV, “All the news that’s fit to animate.” Watch their inimitable take on the story after the jump.
Check In to Facebook Virtually
Facebook has expanded its check-in function to include events without a physical location, leading to marketing and other opportunities.
Perfect World Puts $100 Million into Investment Fund
Perfect World Co. Ltd., a leading online China-based game company, announced its investment of $100 million in a venture capital fund focused on the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.
Facebook Music Will Be Spotify?
Facebook plans to launch a music platform at its f8 conference on Sept. 22, according to multiple news reports. Rather than create its own, the social network will be integrating multiple existing services such as Pandora, Spotify and Mog.
