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image While RockYou’s Zoo World Continues To Amass Users on Facebook, Zynga Might Bring Its Own Zoo Too

Apparently the whole Facebook Ville syndrome is taking developers to newer heights. We have been talking about how Zynga has achieved great success with Farmville, Fishville, Petville, etc and it might have been dead serious about a Zooville. But while that name is patented by a pretty unfamiliar name, RockYou is bagging quite a massive share with Zoo World and its user base is increasing rapidly.

Currently Zoo World is hovering at the number two spot on the Facebook Apps list. Surprises me a lot, given that Facebook users already have more than just one addictive game from Zynga and still more than 200,000 users continue to rally in to populate Zoo World. Sounds cool for everyone who is into all these pet, farm things, but from my experience RockYou needs to do a lot with this application, primarily because it has users jumping from one page to another using the application. But then again this application is much richer in user experience compared to Farmville and the likes, which is again one reason why users might enjoy spending time on it.

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image thumb39 Facebook: Christmas Apps Score High as December 25th Approaches

Social social social, there has been so much emphasis on the word and an excessive emphasis on its benefits that it used to bite me hard. Never liked anyone talking about it and now I am here, because it is important in every manner. We have seen so much revolve around the word that it will be pretty stupid for anyone to deny its importance. Now I am just dragging this one and getting into a lecture mode. Lets be specific and talk about the Social gaming.

I talked about Zynga’s Farmville in detail yesterday and how it continues to grow exponentially. And that is bound to increase as Christmas approaches and users get showered with more Christmas centric apps. What is this doing? Well there has been a marked improvement as Zynga got a boost of over 1.8 Million users everyday to crawl over 28 Million mark while, followed by Birthday Cards from RockYou, which climbed to 2.9 Million after it added another 1.7 followed by the third placed Quiz Planet which went past 1.2 Million daily users. Each of those apps has increased by over 50% but look at the drastic difference between Farmville at one and those at number two and three that is phenomenal and I am being humble here. But that isn’t my point of the debate here, given that those apps have been around for quite some time.

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