INSIDE FACEBOOK — Growth is up significantly this week for the top emerging apps on Facebook, meaning those still under a million monthly average users. On average we’re seeing a third more new users in each position than last week, although relatively few apps have been on the list before. We source this list from AppData, which can give you more in-depth stats, and we’d also recommend you also take a look at our roundup over on Inside Social Games, where we discuss the comeback of Slide with its emerging games SPP Ranch!, Top Fish and SuperPocus. Here’s the list...

INSIDE FACEBOOK — Christmas apps are rising in what is probably their last big week, according to Appdata, on this week’s list of the 20 apps that gained the most daily active users in the past 7 days. Incontra gente came in at number one this week, its first appearance on the list. The app lets Italian speakers meet up with other Italian speakers and it has seen an impressive 60 percent gain to reach 1.61 million daily actives in the last week. Incontra Gente was just released this month and is clearly filling a need on the Facebook community so we’ll see if it continues to improve...

INSIDE FACEBOOK — This past week was the sort we’ve seen before, in terms of the 20 applications that gained the most new monthly active users on our AppData leaderboard. Social games showed up strong, as usual, led by this fall’s most recent hits: Zynga’s FishVille and CrowdStar’s Happy Pets. And, a range of simple holiday or winter-themed apps also unsurprisingly made it on...

INSIDE FACEBOOK — We’re seeing a few distinguishing trends continue this week on our list of the top 20 applications with the most new monthly active users on Facebook. Zynga’s FishVille continues to surge, crossing 20 million monthly active users yesterday, riding weekly growth of 4.68 million, according to AppData. The virtual aquarium game is now the eighth-largest app on Facebook. It is catching up with CrowdStar’s Happy Aquarium, the formative game in the genre and still the largest with 27.3 million monthly actives...

INSIDE FACEBOOK — We’ve just started publishing leaderboards of the Facebook applications with the most daily active users over on AppData. Just as we have been doing posts looking at which apps have gained the most monthly active users each week, we’re going to start doing posts looking at which apps have gained the most daily active users over the course of each week...