The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride

Great article, if you want to know about multiverse, branes, and string theory, need an answer to the question 'where our universe is,' or need to find the God. :)

Turks on Facebook: Raki Sofrasi, etc

Few weeks ago, while working on our Facebook app, I ended up on 'newest' tab of Facebook application directory. To my surprise, there were 4 (four) application that were listed on the first page -which means they were submitted in the last 2 hours or so-. This was around 1:00am Turkish time. [BTW, two of these were implemented by female coders/designers, which is very encouraging, given where the country seems to be moving toward.]

We knew that the Turks on Facebook is growing really fast, but this was my -kinda- wakeup call. I realized that Turks were registering for Facebook, bypassing MySpace and other social networks.

When you look at Adonomics numbers for apps with 100K+ users, Raki Sofrasi is ranking first -was ranking first, still near the top... In 10K+ list, another Turkish app was ranked first last week. If you're Turkish, you already realized why the app is so popular, especially among Turks working abroad; each and every item on that list induces heavy cravings.

Another interesting trend among Turks on Facebook is changing profile images to Turkish flag. The conflict (?) in Northern Iraq is big news in Turkey right now, and people, online or off, are reacting to it. I've never seen so many different pictures of the flag.