Archive for January, 2008
Comp Sci salaries rocket behind Google and Facebook competition
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 31st, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook News, Google, facebook Business.TechCrunch writes that computer science salaries in the silicon valley are soaring amid heavy competition between Google and Facebook for qualified coders. At Stanford, for instance, salaries for grads last year averaged about $70,000 whereas this year’s class is averaging just shy of six figures. And masters of comp sci grads are finding themselves wrestling […]
Facebook Application Invites Are Dead… Almost
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford January 30th, 2008 in Facebook.Facebook Application Invites Are Dead… Almost: Starting today users can now easily choose to ignore application invites, group invitations and event invites. Facebook has added a “clear-all” option for when you have lots of requests/invites (more than 25) waiting on your Requests page.
We now enter a new phase in facebook applications. The ground shifts […]
Facebook Platform vs. MySpace Platform: The showdown is a comin’
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson January 30th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook f8 platform, MySpace, MySpace Platform, OpenSocial.MySpace announced today that its own developer platform is coming on Feb. 5. It’s now taking applications for developers to hoping to get in at the ground level:
The MySpace Developer Site is coming soon!
The MySpace Developer site will empower you to:
* Learn & Play with the MySpace Developer Platform and […]
MorphMonkey: Changing the faces of Facebook
2 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 29th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun, Facebook Review, Facebook spam.Rating:
Ah another day, another app, this one courtesy of MorphMonkey, a face morphing utility that promises to make you “Go BANANAS!!!” (more of that later). MorphMonkey launched recently an currently has a base of 701 active daily users, or about half of the total installs.
Photo morphing software is nothing new, but, to the […]
Facebook to Launch Application Ad Network
9 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford January 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook News.Facebook to Launch Application Ad Network: There are many reasons for facebook to launch an application advertising network. The number of page views and time spent on application pages is enough to boggle ones mind. While applications might appear meaningless and trivial to many; the fact remains that people use them to a very large […]
Facebooks Data Team
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford January 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.Facebooks Data Team: Have you ever wondered how facebook collects, stores, sorts and handles data analysis for their site?
Well then this is your video. Jeff Hammerbacher from Facebooks Data Team gives a very informative presentation at Yahoo about how facebook does this very challenging task. We are talking about Petabyte and Terabyte size analysis. […]
Facebook bridges Platform to the Web
2 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook News, Facebook Software, Facebook f8 platform, facebook Business, facebook developer.On Friday, Facebook made yet another progressive (and unexpected) move, with the release of of a Javascript-based client library that allows developers to host applications on their own servers. The impact of this could be immense.
Now, rather than being confined to coding within Facebook, developers can build and host apps natively. The update allows […]
Ignore All minimizes Facebook app spam
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson January 25th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Video courtesy of WebCommunityForum
Rodney would probably disapprove of me posting something that ignores his precious Facebook apps, but he’s currently sick with the flu, so I’ll take liberties with his feeble state to clue you all in to Ignore All. As the video above illustrates, it’s a simple bookmarklet that allows you to completely ignore […]
Make money with Facebook apps
3 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 24th, 2008 in Facebook Applications.While it’s been well-established that Facebook Platform developers can make money off of their apps, little had been said about the apps that can make money for the user.
Quite a few options exist, but they tend to focus on helping Facebook users deliver their wares to other Facebook users. Not a bad model if […]
Facebook Applications Get Fans and Review Ratings
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford January 24th, 2008 in Facebook Applications.Starting immediately facebook is converting Facebook Application About pages to use the Facebook Pages infrastructure and format. This change enriches application About Pages and provides additional functionality. Users can become fans of your application and review it. Adding an application is different from becoming a fan of the application, users can choose either or both. […]
