RockYou climbing past Slide, to be number one widget-maker?

RockYou, the company behind popular Facebook applications and Myspace Flash widgets, may soon pass its arch-rival Slide to be the largest widget-maker in the world.Some have accurately called such Facebook applications “mostly silly, useless and time-wasting” — yet this virtual real estate may be worth a lot one day. RockYou claims it is quickly growing revenue through running advertising across applications.

The San Mateo company’s “SuperWall” Facebook application has just passed Slide’s “FunWall” application in number of daily active Facebook users — 3,186,833 versus 2,951,078. Like Facebook’s own Wall feature but with a few bells and whistles, these applications allow users to comment, post videos and share other information on each others Facebook profiles.

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