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Facebook IPO Filing Coming Wednesday
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford January 31st, 2012 in business, Facebook IPO, Facebook News.What a long time coming this has been. It appears that Facebook is going to file for its IPO on Wednesday. According to IFR It is looking like they are starting with raising approximately $5 billion in this offering. Indications are that they are going to start small and then move up with 5 Billion [...]
XGames Fail over DQ of Skier for Wearing Sarah Burke Armband
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford January 29th, 2012 in business, Facebook Pages.XGames simply refuses to talk about the specific circumstances and reasons for why they chose to disqualify Womens Skier X Final participant Langely McNeal. According to what we have heard it was over the fact that she was wearing a tribute band to Sarah Burke. I am stunned by this on several levels. It appears [...]
7 Tech Trends to Watch for in 2012
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford January 4th, 2012 in Facebook Applications, Mobile, social media.Whats Next in Tech for 2012? This is a question that I have been kicking around with some of my peers for the past month or so. There are many trends occurring in the mobile space, in the social space and in the commerce space that are fundamentally changing how consumers and users interact, share [...]
iPhone Drinking Game: Where’s Cuppy?
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford June 18th, 2011 in iphone, Mobile, social games.New iPhone Social Game: Where’s Cuppy? The game is fun and simple. Download the iPhone app and snap a pic of you and your friends with you plastic red cup. Simple. Stupid. Pointless and Fun as hell. So grab a Sharpie marker… draw Cuppy’s face on the Cup and start taking pics. The photos of [...]
Win this Cool Guitar on Plixi from Patrick Stump
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford April 1st, 2011 in Plixi.Check out this Cool Guitar Giveaway on Plixi. It looks like a photo contest where you upload a photo with the hashtag #patrickstump to Plixi.com Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy has a new solo EP called Truant Wave. So upload your photo of you in your spotlight showing what you do best to be [...]
facebook f8 live event
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 21st, 2010 in Facebook, Facebook f8 platform.I have been at every facebook f8 event and lots of the early developer garages; unfortunately my startup work at TweetPhoto has me buried and I cant attend. you will see tons of new product announcements. my thoughts are “like” and “geo places” and checkin with iphones are my predictions. Looks like keychain tokens as [...]
NYC Social Media Event for Business
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 9th, 2009 in Branding, business, social media.Gravity Summit NYC is an event that I am producing on November 16. This event is unlike most social media events as it is focused on the business world with real case studies and best practices from brands that are doing it right. Register NOW 8:30 AM — Registration – Prepare for the day (please [...]
Facebook Jumps the Walled Garden to Twitter
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford August 20th, 2009 in Facebook Pages, twitter.Facebook has had Twitter envy for the past 6 months.It was only a matter of time before facebook got it right and allowed actions on their site to jump over the facebook wall. Facebook just announced that you will be able to publish from facebook pages to twitter. Smart move for a variety of reason; [...]
Michael Jackson and Facebook: U Can’t Beat It
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 7th, 2009 in Facebook News.Here is a quick rundown of the final stats after today’s Michael Jackson Memorial service for the King of Pop. You were able to see users status updates that were entered on the CNN site and connected back to users facebook accounts. At one point in the morning users were posting Approx 6,000 status updates [...]
Facebook Launches Persian Version Amongst Iranian Unrest
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford June 18th, 2009 in Facebook News.Since the Iranian election last week, people around the world have increasingly been sharing news and information on Facebook about the results and its aftermath. Much of the content created and shared on Facebook related to these events has been in Persian – the native language of Iran – but the users have had to [...]
