Archive for March, 2008
Scoble & Rumford Discuss Social Media
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford March 31st, 2008 in Branding, Facebook, social media, social networks, twitter. World renowned Blogger & Video Producer at FastComapny TV Robert Scoble and I discuss how brands can engage on social networks.
We were both in Hollywood for the Community Next Forum on saturday. We cover some of the reasons why companies and brands need to be on social networks like facebook, myspace, Hi5, friendster, […]
Wired Science app gets it right — big time
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson March 31st, 2008 in Branding, Facebook, Facebook Advertising, Facebook Applications, Facebook Marketing, facebook Business.Rating:
First of all, Wired Science is awesome. It’s like Nova combined with Mr. Wizard and rolled into one product that manages to stay informative and amusing. I’m really completely thrilled by the show, but there’s more.
Wired Science recently unveiled its own Facebook app and it’s a winner. The app combines the offbeat […]
Hi5 Developer Platform Goes Live
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford March 31st, 2008 in Hi5, social networks.Hi5 Developer Platform Goes Live. Social Network Hi5 has ;launched their application platform today. If you have an application on facebook I suggest you go take a look and do what you need to do quickly to get your app oonto hi5. There are currently over 7000 developers registered on hi5.
I strongly suggest you […]
Social Games Pick Up Speed
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford March 30th, 2008 in Facebook, MySpace, social games.Social Gaming Picks Up Speed:
I just came across an article from the San Francisco Chronicle about how Social Gaming is gaining in popularity. We have posted information a while back about Zynga & SGN. They point out that the games continue to gain popularity and how users that are not traditional gamers are engaging with […]
Facebook Applications Break 20K Milestone
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford March 28th, 2008 in Branding, Facebook Applications, Facebook News.Facebook Breaks 20K Application Milestone: The big news today is that facebook has over 20K applications now on the platform. Facebook has hit this milestone in under a year since they opened up the platform to developers.
When facebook launched the F8 platform there was huge buzz. Naysayers said that there would only be a few […]
Nexus Facebook Friend Graphing
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook acquisitions.Rating:
Sure it doesn’t do much, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t the coolest looking Facebook app I’ve seen this week. Nexus is simple in premise, yet completely elegant in execution — that said, it probably wasn’t the simplest of apps to develop.
Essentially the app, which exists primarily outside of Faceboo, creates a full […]
Squirrels have a Social Graph
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford March 28th, 2008 in Facebook, social networks.I could not resist the parallels drawn in this interesting article from Discovery “Squirrel Social Networks” article. The major difference between human and squirrel social networks is that people, as the conventional wisdom goes, appear to be “separated” by five or six degrees. For squirrels, it takes only three connections for one member of a […]
Facebook SEO? Yup!
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford March 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications. Facebook SEO: Facebook is making steps toward allowing applications to make their information SEO visible. Smart move as more search engine visibility ultimately means more traffic for facebook. This will quickly result in millions of uniques visits per day once the developers have made the app content search engine visible.
Starting last week, you […]
Facebook snags another 40 million investment
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford March 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News. Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing said Thursday he has increased his personal investment in social networking site Facebook to more than US$100 million, and might invest even more. He had previously invested 60 million at the same time that microsoft invested a few months back.
“Facebook is doing very well and we could have some […]
Facebook introduces you to ‘People You May Know’
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 27th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook News, Facebook updates.Rating:
Facebook quietly launched a new feature that connects you with people you may know. It was a soft launch, but the implementation is pretty effective. It can be found in the Friend Finder section of the service.
Like the similar feature popularized by FriendFeed, Facebook draws on mutual connections between friends. It’s fairly accurate so […]
