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Death To The Install! Long Live Virality! Play Facebook Games Straight From News Feed
techcrunch.com 5 days, 15 hours agoPeople don’t want to install and give data permissions to games, they want to play them, so now Facebook is allowing games to be played directly from within news feed or Timeline stories. These previews give gamers a taste and could get them over the install hurdle once they’re already addicted. Some of Facebook’s most popular games are already using this tactic, and you can try it out here for Angry Birds , Bubble Witch Saga, and Idle Worship . Facebook has to keep delivering growth for apps to get develop
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Update: Someone Is Asking The USPTO To Invalidate Zuckerberg’s News Feed Patent, But Yahoo Says Not Us
techcrunch.com 1 week, 1 day agoOne idea floated when Ross Levinsohn took the reins as the interim CEO of Yahoo is that he might represent a kinder, gentler phase in the Internet company’s contentious patent fight against Facebook. There was even a suggestion that the two sides might even be able to settle. Today, some news that could point to a different approach , at least for now. Some documents have emerged at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that indicate someone, just yesterday, requested for the USPTO to re-examine a patent own
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