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What Are People Doing (Apps) on Facebook?

Directly from Facebook,
Most Popular Facebook Apps, by total monthly users:

Apps that are New On the Scene and are Becoming Hugely Popular:

Besides flirting (aka "networking"), sharing photos, and staying connected, users are star making these Facebook apps above.  Apps seems to mostly run the line between: increasing profile functionality, games, philanthropy (never has it been so easy), and various flirting functions.  Maybe it's time to create a Facebook version of Laslow's Hierarchy of Needs.  Consider Facebook as beginning to resemble something more like an operating system and you'll see the potential.

 

The World Loves American Media, Even If It Hates Our Politics

by Tim Arango for the New York Times.

"Media companies have gotten what they wanted, even if the White House has not. In the last eight years, American pop culture, already popular, has boomed around the globe while opinions of America itself have soured.

The television program “CSI” is now more popular in France than in the United States. Hollywood movies routinely sell far more tickets overseas than at home. A Russian remake of the TV show “Married With Children” has been so popular that Sony, the producer of the show, has hired back the original writers to produce new scripts for Russia. Even in the Muslim world, American pop culture has spread."

The complete article here.