On Friday, AT&T and mobile social games company ngmoco announced a new partnership agreement. According to the nature and structure of the partnership, AT&T will bring the Mobage social gaming platform to AT&T customers.

Mobage will serve as a “hub” for AT&T Android users to discover and play games, as well as connect and communicate with other players around the world.

The move is another clear indication of AT&T’s desire to embrace the social mobile gaming realm, as the potential rewards are far too lucrative to ignore.

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On Wednesday, Quepasa Corporation, which owns the popular Latino social network Quepasa, announced that it is merging with myYearbook, often hailed as “the best place to meet new people on the web or mobile device.”

With over 1 billion page views on mobile platforms and 1.2 billion page views on the web each month, myYearbook is one of the largest media properties in the US.

“It is also the #1 web site in the comScore Teens category with more visits, minutes, and pageviews than any other site in the category,” Quepasa Corporation says.

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Social networks have become the new animal kingdom.

According to an eye-opening (and head-scratching) new study commissioned by Neil Brettell, director of animal insurer PetPlan, “animals are more popular than celebrities on Facebook and other social networking sites.”

And the data proves it.

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It will be a banner year for social gaming. And wherever there is a banner, there are usually some big bucks propping it up.

According to the latest projections by eMarketer, the emergent popularity of social networking sites (and their associated mobile and web-based games) is finally beginning to translate into substantial revenue.

eMarketer says that ever since Zynga released FarmVille in June 2009, it’s been “game on” for the lucrative market that social games has given rise to.

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The biggest defeat on WWE Monday Night Raw this past week didn’t take place among combatants inside the squared circle. Instead, the big loser of the night was WWE’s plan to engage fans and viewers via the “power to the people” text voting campaign.

On Monday, fans were given the opportunity to serve as the WWE Raw General Manager. By texting their match preferences for the evening, WWE was hoping to give fans a democratic majority-rule opportunity to determine which superstars would wrestle one another. Fans were also provided the opportunity to determine match stipulations and rules.

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This Friday, what could be one of the first blockbusters of this summer – Super 8 – will open nationwide in theaters.

The movie takes place in the summer of 1979, where a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a Super 8 mm film and soon suspect that it was not an accident.

The paranormal frenzy then begins.

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Photobucket has forged a new partnership with microblogging giant Twitter.

On Friday, Photobucket announced that it will power Twitter’s native photo sharing capabilities. And when it comes to pictures, Photobucket is the sage atop social media’s hill. With 100 million users and more than eight billion uploads, Photobucket has become the world’s leading dedicated photo and video sharing service.

As a result, Twitter users can now easily upload and share photos directly in Tweets. According to Photobucket, “This partnership reflects the synergy between the companies’ growth strategies and audience needs, delivering a simple, intuitive user experience for photo sharing.”

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