December 28th morning, according to media reports, Google started introduce three new TV ads for Google +. Since the impact of Chrome advertising is very extensive, and this helped the global browser take quarter of market share, so Google plans to use the same means to promote their social networking Google +.
Google has released three new TV ads to promote its fledgling social network. Which includes the toy puppet, NBA commentator Bill Walton, Kenny Smith, Steve Kerr, Spero Dedes and Jon Barry. There is a special advertising display the latest Hangouts video group chat services, including children chat with their grandmother, a girl chat with her friends she had engaged, and the blessing for New Year’s Eve and so on.
This series of television advertisements mainly promote the Google + and Hangouts services. Google’s Hangouts services can support 10 people chat together with video, and this is free. This may be the most attractive selling point among Google’s social networking. The TV commercials will help Google to promote the Google +, and get more extensive user base.
December 22th morning news, Facebook announced the 10 most popular big social game list in the 2011 on Wednesday. Surprisingly, the most popular Facebook social games are not developed by Zynga.
According to the Facebook’s list, this year’s most popular social game is Gardens of Time which is under the development of Disney Playdom, and ranked in the second place is simulation social life edition which released by EA.
Overall, the list of given by Facebook is quite different from the daily and monthly active users chart which released by AppData social game. According to the active network calculation from the third party data, Zynga’s games are always in the league table, ranked in four or five top. For this, Facebook said the ranking is not entirely based on active network, it’s also considered the recommended amount of users.
In the list released by Facebook, there’re four versions of Zynga’s games, and some other games developed by independent company also in the list. The list showed that players are more interested in casino games, it has become an important source for Facebook’s revenue.
December 14th news, according to media reports, Google Android platform has been criticised by the public, so that the company had to remove a range of malicious applications from the Android market, some malicious applications with the legal name, for example, angry birds. Malicious application disguised as angry bird, Cut the Rope and Where’s My Water, in order to attract users for free download.
Now in the Android market, there’re a number of illegal accounts, these accounts made Google’s security measures useless. If a malicious application is installed, Trojan will attempt to send short code to users for award messages. Once the user inputs text by award-winning dial-up or coding, cybercriminals will charge users.
This threat has concerned by Get Safe Online and the Trend Micro, it’s estimated that in the next four months, the growth rate of move malware will be 800%.
Security company F-Secure said, at first, the Trojan only for Russia users, but now it has affected to eighteen different countries users.
