Archive for October, 2007
Facebook Mini-Feed Gets a SPAM Update
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 31st, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Facebook has just announced an hour ago some changes to their Mini-Feed and how users can interact (hide and report spamminess) with it. This will most likely lessen the spamminess of applications sending unwanted notifications. The bottom line here is improved user experience. Facebook is so great at adding these types of controls. I love [...]
Facebook is #4 Website Worldwide
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford October 31st, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News.Listen. Everyone that keeps pontificating about why Microsoft invested in facebook and is it worth 15 billion? Chew on these stats. Facebook is the 4th most trafficked website on the internet WORLDWIDE. 34.5 Billion Page Views last month! This puts it right up there with the almighty Google. Microsoft and Facebook will find a way [...]
Facebook Now Has 50 Million Active Users
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 29th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News.Breaking News: Facebook Now has 50 Million active users. No one has mentioned this major benchmark; so we thought we would spread the word. The fact that Facebook has hit this active user benchmark so rapidly is mind boggling. Facebook is seeing meteoric uptake in adding new users at a rate that exceeds 200,000 New [...]
Head on over to the SNAP Summit Facebook Conference if you are in San Francisco today. This is going to be a great 1 day conference. I was suppossed to be sitting on a Facebook Panel today that is moderated by Robert Scoble. Due to the extreme fires in San Diego and that fact that [...]
The Lotto Comes to Facebook
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 26th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Rating: I had a chance to meet the founders of The Lotto Facebook application while at the graphing social facebook conference a few weeks back. You can learn more about the Facebook Lotto application here. Anytime you can dangle a carrot of free money in front of people they will beat a path to your [...]
Facebook and Microsoft Expand Strategic Alliance
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 24th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News.Facebook News Release: Microsoft and Facebook Expand Their Alliance. Microsoft to take equity stake in Facebook; companies expand advertising deal to cover international markets. This is really great news and it looks like Microsoft beat out Google in the negotiations to claim an ownership stake in Facebook! Facebook and Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft [...]
Facebook Mobile Platform: News
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 24th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook News.Facebook Mobile News Alert: This breaking facebook news just released under an hour ago. Facebook Announces Facebook Platform for Mobile at CTIA. Facebook Platform for Mobile enables any of Facebook’s 80,000 developers to extend their applications to work with mobile phones. Facebook users may opt-in to sending and receiving text messages from applications, or interact [...]
Just a quick note to our readers. We will be out of pocket for a few days and will not be doing any facebook application reviews for a day or so. We are being evacuated due to MASSIVE fires that are very close to us. The county is burning with 3 massive fires and winds [...]
I had the opportunity to chat with my fellow facebook blogger Justin from InsideFacebook.com while we were at the Community Next Facebook Conference. We talked about business use cases and how companies can actually use facebook for branding, gaining customers, etc… Enjoy the video as Justin and I discuss Facebook and some trends that we [...]
Facebook Geek vs. MySpace Glam
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 21st, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News.I was reading an insightful article by Brian Braiker in Newsweek last night. The Newsweek article goes into some great detail about the differences of the 2 social networks: MySpace and Facebook. Facebook embraces developers, MySpace does not. I have always said that MySpace is more DNA centric around music and entertainment. Facebook is all [...]
