Archive for February, 2008
Social News gets Mixx’ed on Facebook
3 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 29th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook f8 platform, facebook Business, facebook developer.Digg-competitor Mixx has launched its own Facebook app, aiming to bring its own brand of social news to the social network. Mixx has been making headlines lately, first with the implementation of clustered, meme-style stories and more recently with the announcement that it had secured $2 million in Series A1 capital.
So what’s the verdict on […]
Facebook Friend Invite Death Watch
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford February 29th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications. Facebook Application Friend Invites are Quickly Dying Off:
Facebook has finally made live the sliding scale invites limitations mechanism for applications. Applications are now subject to daily changing (not fun) friend invite (and notifications) limits for their applications based upon several factors.
We blogged about this change a while back. Some applications will actually be […]
Funny Farm Word Game is Insane
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford February 29th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Rating:
Funny Farm Word Game is Insane: I just discovered this game tonight and I am so mad. I ended up playing for almost 1.5 hours. This is a huge compliment to the developers.
I can’t ever remember a facebook casual word game sucking me in so quickly and for so long.
This is […]
Facebook email Double Standard
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford February 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Facebook email Double Standard: Do as I Say NOT As I Do! Facebook made a change to email messages that applications send out. Email messages are typically sent based on a very specific discreet action based on a friends action from within an app typically; which is good. A friend might send you a gift, […]
Facebook Help 101: As our readership continues to grow and millions of people are coming onto facebook every month; we thought it would be helpful to show people where they can help themselves on facebook.
This might sound really odd; but I was talking with some very savvy computer people the other day […]
Facebook Music Rocks!
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford February 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News. Rating:
Facebook Music Rocks! Move over MySpace. Facebook is jamming to the core of your audience and DNA. Facebook Pages for musicians have existed since pages went live. But what is new is the main music page that shows a lot of the features that are available on facebook pages for music artists.
What I […]
Facebook Gone Loco?
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford February 27th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook international.I had something funny happen on my facebook profile. Facebook has gone loco. Only the top section of my profile magically went loco and thinks that it should display my information in Spanish. Ahhh… the challenges of going multi-linguistic for localization are showing. Is anyone else seeing this on other facebook profiles?
I found this […]
Facebook Communication Done Right
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford February 27th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.Facebook Communication Done Right: While we talk a lot about best practices and how facebook is effectively a communication platform at it’s core. I wanted share how facebook is eating some of it’s own dog food.
Facebook has many tools for communication. It has received some criticism for poor communication (as a company) from some of […]
What is Plink? Inquiring Facebookers want to know.
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 27th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Software, Facebook f8 platform, Facebook photo, facebook developer.I’ve been staring at Plink for about a week now and I have to say that I’m still completely and utterly befuddled. Even after several transactions with company founder Chris Guerra, I cannot for the life of me figure out what this thing is supposed to do — and, believe me, I’ve tried.
As far […]
Facebook quietly adds Updates tab
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson February 27th, 2008 in Facebook News, Facebook spam, Facebook updates.Facebook released a small update recently that allows groups and pages to send updates to users. The “Updates” alert appears just above the status bar.
An updates tab has also been added to the inbox. This is a nice move as it helps to delineate massive group messages from direct friend messages.
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