Does the lovely lady in the picture above look like Lindsay Lohan to you? Lilo thinks so, and she's suing Rockstar Games because of it. TMZ reports that Lohan's lawyers are drafting a lawsuit that would require GTA's developer to pay "serious money for using Lindsay's image in the game."
Lohan's main complaints stem from the fact that she looks sort of like the woman in the above image and that there are two missions that involve Lindsay-esque antics (escaping the paparazzi and photographing her having sex on camera a the Chateau Marmont, where Lohan once lived).
Rockstar hasn't responded to the allegations yet, but we're pretty sure nothing will come of it. First, the bikini-clad vixen on the cover looks like any number of blonde models (Kate Upton, anyone?). Second, evading paparazzi and getting caught with a sex tape are par for the course with today's celebrities. And finally, according to the GTA wiki about "Lacey Jonas" - the character in the missions that supposedly resembles Lindsay - refers to her as "the voice of this generation." We're pretty sure that's a nod to a decidedly non-Lohan female celebrity. [via GameZone]
And if this post managed to pique your interest in GTA 5, check out some of the gameplay in the video below and one day you too could be chauffeuring Lindsay - err, Lacey - around the streets of Los Santos. 
Along with a Timeline redesign, Facebook today announced new features for developers to get their apps more prominently featured on users’ profiles.
Facebook today launched an update for the Facebook SDK for iOS, which seeks to make it easier and faster to develop socially integrated 
LinkedIn is creating an advertising platform that developers can build upon using an API similar to what Facebook has done to scale its business, according to 
Backend as a service company Kinvey today 
Nike launched Facebook Timeline integration for the 
A unique feature of Nike’s Facebook integration is the option for users to let their friends know they have begun a run and then receive feedback in the form of cheers as they go. Whenever friends Like or comment on a user’s Nike+ post, the runner will hear cheering sounds through their headphones or phone speakers. It’s not only encouragement to keep running, it’s a reward that can only be attained by using the app. We’ll likely see some apps copy the feature, but even if they use a different mechanism, developers should consider what reward their own users get by using their app and sharing activity with friends. This is a problem for some social reader applications, for example. Many users can’t see a benefit to sharing articles with their friends in this way.
Nike+ tracks how far, how fast and how frequently users run and then aggregates this information in Timeline summaries. These aggregations also include a list of users’ “running buddies” who are most frequently tagged in their run stories and “fans” who most frequently Like or comment on users’ Nike+ activity.
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The Facebook gaming arena is about to welcome a new gladiator: 
Zynga Launches Campaing with Edible Schoolyard Project — 
Bungie Aerospace Announces Crimson: Steam Pirates – Social and 
MapleStory Runs Cross-Promotion With MapleStory Adventures — Nexon is 
Looking at the table below, we can see that the United States makes up a large portion of the overall population and the Facebook population relative to the other three. This also translates when we compare the number of targetable game players in these countries. In fact, out of approximately 60 million targetable game players across these four countries, the United States encompasses 74% or almost 45 million of these users. (Note that targetable game players is different from total game players as Facebook ads allows you to target users who “like” the game – and not all of the games users.)
Given that the market for game specific advertising is always changing, it is difficult to predict how much competition you will run up against when starting your campaign. However, some analysis can be done at the macro-level. We see that competition within a country remains relatively consistent over short time periods – with the exception of holidays like Christmas. Hence, by following CPI prices at several points over the past few months from the millions of acquisitions delivered for Adparlor’s gaming clients, we have been able to come up with a relative competition scale for all four countries on Facebook. The graph to the right has been normalized to give the US a relative competition score of 1.00 so we focus on the difference between the United States and other English speaking countries. We can see from the graph above that the US is in fact the most competitive and Canada is the least competitive. The section below on user quality points to why this is the case.
