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Inside Facebook, operated by Justin Smith who also head up product here at Watercooler, had a post earlier this week about the fastest growing mid-size applications on Facebook.  For the purposes of the post, mid-size applications are defined as those with monthly active users between 100K and 1 million.  It’s interesting to see that three [...]

Before the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, we created team apps for a variety of different countries.  The apps did fairly well during the three weeks of the Olympics, and the Great Britain app gained a modest 18,000 fans before plateauing.  Most of us here at Watercooler assumed that those apps would slowly lose interest once [...]

2008 was a banner year across college football with lots of upsets, epic battles, and of course the standard BCS controversy.  Not only did we get all of the traditional excitement that comes from the college football season, but we also saw great success from traditional media with ABC and ESPN both reporting significant increases [...]

Today was Separation Sunday in the NFL with several playoff spots in the AFC and NFC up for grabs.  In the end, most of the key playoff-like games came up as duds with the Cowboys, Bears, and Broncos laying major eggs on the road in games they were really never in.  The result is a [...]

In case you haven’t been following along recently, the death knells are being sounded for social media advertising by everyone from Silicon Alley Insider to AdWeek to The New York Times.  In fact, you can’t seem to surf the Web these days without stumbling on to dozens of articles and blog posts touting the failure [...]