A creepy Connect integration topped our list of the fastest growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. Then there were a few Page tab apps, photo apps, horoscopes, the Washington Post Social Reader, Skype, Scribd, Facebook’s Android app, Yahoo and more. The titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps [...]

Adding social commerce to a brand’s online strategy boosts community 68 percent, in addition to growing revenues. That revenue growth will amount to $30 billion for social commerce in 2015, meaning that half of online commerce will come from social media that year. These are the highlights of a Moontoast report called “The Social Commerce Opportunity.” [...]

The Central Intelligence Agency reads public posts on Facebook and Twitter as part of the effort to compile reports for President Barack Obama. Data from social media channels has played a key role in predicting and analyzing events, such as the uprisings in Egypt and Libya, or gauging the mood of a region following the killing [...]

It wasn’t all shenanigans for Facebook advertising developer Nanigans in the third quarter, as the company said its Ad Engine delivered 80 billion social ad impressions during the period. Nanigans said it has been averaging a monthly growth rate of 45 percent since January, with impressions reaching 10,000 per second during the third quarter. Ad [...]

Badgeville is aiming higher with its social gaming technology, looking to bring its badges and widgets to Fortune 1000 companies with the launch of Behavior Platform. Behavior Platform is built on top of the company’s Behavior Graph, which allows users to track social behavior in terms of social connections and content within their communities and [...]

Rocket Fuel will release technology Monday that helps marketers understand the value of Facebook ad campaigns as a stand-alone strategy or when integrating the medium with mobile, display and search. Social Booster for Facebook automates creation, monitoring and management through intelligent bidding, multivariate creative testing, segmentation, automated optimization, and cross-channel analytics. The data includes first- [...]

There’s little question that mobile is a growing platform for Facebook. The social networking giant now says it has more than 350 million active monthly mobile users across 475 wireless operators worldwide. As such, mobile has also become an increasing focus for the company, which rolled out a major upgrade to its mobile site earlier [...]

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. The number of Facebook applications can seem a little overwhelming at times. While Facebook doesn’t share an exact number, an independent website called AppData monitors trends for over 100,000 Facebook applications, [...]

A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between October 31st and November 5th. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, October 31st: With 60M Monthly Actives, Outfit7 Hints at Powering Distribution For Other Mobile Developers Flurry Sees 2.6B App Downloads This Month on iOS, [...]

A review of almost any recent social media survey or poll (here’s a nice batch of them from eMarketer) reveals Facebook growth in two major areas — the amount of time people are spending on Facebook, and the amount of time and money brands are spending on Facebook. With people spending more and more time [...]