Archive for May, 2008
Facebook CEO & COO Speak!
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 30th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.Facebook CEO & COO Speak! I was recently at the All Things D conference in Carlsbad. This event is a who’s who of CEO’s from Jerry Yang to Rupert Murdoch to Mark Zuckerberg. I had the good fortune of running in Mark Zuckerberg at the end of the evening and we had a brief chat [...]
Social Networks Parody Video
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 29th, 2008 in Facebook, MySpace, social networks.We normally try to offer valuable insights and thoughts with our posts. But I am a bit brain dead this morning since I was up at All Thind D event until 3am. I have decided to give my readers a light hearted animated video around social networking wars. I will have some deeper commentary from [...]
Facebook: The Focus is on the News Feed
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook News.Breaking Facebook News: With the new facebook profile design imminent; some changes are coming to facebook and the News Feed. If you have an application on facebook you should be looking into the changes in the news feed templates and how you want your stories published into the news feed. There are a variety of [...]
Import Social Activity to Facebook Mini-Feed
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 27th, 2008 in Facebook, social networks.Import Social Activity to your Facebook Mini-Feed: This feature has been expanded on facebook to make it super easy for users to publish a social stream of their activity outside of facebook and publish into their mini-feed. On your facebook profile page look at the upper right side of the mini-feed and click on the [...]
Twitter vs. Friendfeed: Apples vs. Oranges
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford May 27th, 2008 in Friendfeed, twitter.Twitter Vs. Friendfeed: Both of these services offer value and have many different use cases. Twitter has been around for almost 1.5 years and friendfeed is less than 6 months. While many propeller heads keep trying to say that friendfeed is a twitter killer; I disagree. The 2 services are only slightly similar. Friendfeed is [...]
I can tell you that Twitter outages in the last week have been bad. Frustratingly bad. According to their blog they are going through a process to make twitter have the reliability of a true communications platform (which it was not designed for). They have been a bit more forthcoming about their struggles on their [...]
Facebook Opens Profile Sandbox
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 23rd, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Breaking News: Facebook just opened their Profile Sandbox to developers a few minutes ago. It looks like a lot of applications will need rework and updating. So now is the time to start looking into this before facebook rolls the changes live. My first impression of the new facebook profile user interface after playing with [...]
Facebook Profile Redesign Getting Closer
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 21st, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Facebook has been talking about doing a redesign of the Profile pages for quite some time. Initially we thought these changes were supposed to roll live in April, but facebook went back to the drawing board after some feedback was sent their way by users and developers. We got our first peek at these “new [...]
Blippr is Twitter Like Reviews for Movies, Books, Games and Music
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 19th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, twitter.Blippr = Radically Short Reviews for Movies, Books, Games and Music. Blippr Rating: Blippr launched in private a beta a few months back and look pretty solid as a fun way to write 160 character reviews. This past weekend I had the opportunity to use their newly launched facebook application. I am very impressed at [...]
RockYou Facebook Ad Network is Live
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 17th, 2008 in Facebook Advertising, Facebook Applications, Marketing.RockYou has served as an ad network by delivering ads from their highly successful facebook application portfolio for some time (tho not widely known). It is now possible for facebook application owners to start serving from an ad inventory. The ads do not appear to be standard IAB ad sizes. They appear to be geared [...]
