Archive for July, 2008
Goodbye Scrabulous, Hello Wordscraper
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 31st, 2008 in Facebook Applications.Wordscraper: Rating:
Goodbye Scrabulous, Hello Wordscraper: Well it looks like there is finally some sort of resolution to the whole scrabulous fiasco on facebook. The makers of scrabulous (Jayant & Rajat Argarwalla) have returned with a much improved and crazier version called Wordscraper. There are lot of elements to this game that will make it […]
BREAKING: Facebook News Feed Facelift: Facebook’s new design just keeps getting better. In the last hour they just rolled out a new design for the news feed.
I really like the way they have organized the news feed. Users now have tabs to separate out most popular stories, photos, status updates and posted items. The news […]
13 Marketing Points on Facebook
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 29th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Marketing.13 Marketing Points on Facebook: People are always asking us how they can market their business, brand, product or service on facebook; so here is some food for thought. There are many ways to market effectively on facebook.
I put them all in 1 nice slide. Let these points roll around your noggin for a […]
It would appear that Scrabulous is missing from facebook this morning. Facebook users in the United States & Canada can no longer access Scrabulous. The wildly successful Scrabble knockoff game that quickly became one of the most popular applications on facebook is missing.
Here is what you see when you go to the application page. “Scrabulous […]
Facebook Snags Firefox VP: Facebook continues to be the biggest talent magnet in the valley. Just this morning facebook has announced that it has hired Firefox VP Mike Schroepfer, currently VP of Engineering at Mozilla.
Mike agreed to join Facebook as a Director of Engineering with responsibilities that include leading front-end product and platform […]
Serena Williams, Twitter and Zappos FTW
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford July 25th, 2008 in Branding, Marketing, twitter.Zappos CEO Tony continues to do very interesting things with twitter. I will say it again; “twitter is whatever you want it to be.”
Tony is a great example of how a brand (and executives) can leverage twitter in new and interesting ways. Zappos and Twitter For The Win! (FTW)
He tweeted that he was going […]
Facebook opened their platform to developers last year. Big deal… So have many other sites. But no one has had the groundswell of success that facebook has with the developer and user community for adoption. There are over 30,000 apps live on the platform since it’s launch just a few months past it’s 1 year […]
Facebook: New Rules, Less Virality
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 22nd, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Facebook: New Rules, Less Virality!
Yesterday facebook announced a new set of rules to go with the new profile design. Facebook is trying to limit some of the “spamminess” that it thinks some applications have. The concept is good; but I question the huge unknown area that they have created with these new rules.
Note to […]
New Facebook Design Opens
6 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 21st, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.New Facebook Design Opens This Morning. There has been some buzz about the coming Facebook re-design for a few months. The wait to experience it is over today as facebook will be rolling the new design forward in phases to it’s users. Within a few weeks every user of facebook will be running on the […]
Facebook F8 Engineers Hackathon Dream
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford July 18th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.What does facebook want to see in the form of new applications? Next week there is big facebook f8 event in SF. What happens when you bring together a bunch of coders, load them up with energy drinks and let the creative juices fly… New Cool Facebook Apps.
Some Ideas from the Facebook Engineers…
Biz Productivity
Facebook Context […]
