This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
Another week has passed in the social gaming world, and despite the holidays, there’s still quite a bit happening. Understanding the lethargy that sets in after a heafty turkey dinner, here are some quick links to Inside Socia

Facebook Tweaks Redesign Tests as It Plans More Roadmap Roll-Outs
The latest Facebook redesign test screenshots have surfaced on a few users’ accounts, and in many ways they look like what we’ve seen before. Key Facebook communication channels — notifications, requests and messages — are appearing on the left side of the top navigation bar, a change that went into live testing at least a month ago. The new left-hand bookmark bar now appears, which is something Facebook showed previews of during its developer roadmap event earlier this fall.

New Types of Games, Photo and Holiday Facebook Apps on This Week’s Up-and-Coming List
A promising range of new applications have shown up in this week’s up-and-comers list, including some less familiar game genres, seasonal apps and more. For those who haven’t been following recently, this list is derived by looking at the apps on AppData with between 100,000 and 1 million users, that grew by the most monthly active users in the last week. Inevitably, some apps seen here are simple quizzes or gift-giving types, that have short and uninteresting life-spans. However, this list also provides an early look at high-quality apps that go on to become major hits — like LOLapps’ string of role-playing games released in recent weeks, including Champio

SocialVibe’s Thanksgiving Feast Facebook Application Raises Money to Fight Hunger
SocialVibe works with brands to create ways for users to donate money to charity, where users engage in some sort of branded online experience, and the brand make a donation. And for Thanksgiving, SocialVibe has created a Facebook app that is a type of simple fundraising game, raising money for the United Nation

TV Networks, Brands and Individuals Find New Audiences On Facebook
Television networks have been taking advantage of Facebook Connect to lure back viewers turning to online forms of entertainment, and several new applications have recently popped up to give Facebook users options for viewing their favorite shows. There’s still a lot of room for improvement, and all the big networks need to do is look around to see how some other brands and individuals are leveraging video on Facebook to increase fans, viewers and business in general. ABC.com Makes Viewing More Social ABC scored big numbers this summer when it used Facebook Connect to offer an interactive venue for