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Facebook F8 Engineers Hackathon Dream
0 Comments 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 […]
Facebook for iPhone in iTunes App Store
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 10th, 2008 in Facebook News, Facebook Software, Mobile.Facebook iPhone App (NEW)
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About a year ago facebook launched the Facebook iPhone website, and it has over 1.5 million people using it regularly. Today, Apple has opened the doors to its App Store which features a new application we’ve created: Facebook for iPhone.
You’re probably wondering what makes the iPhone application different from the facebook […]
Twitter Gets Mentioned 138K Times in the Last Month: Fail Whale
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 1st, 2008 in twitter.Twitter is having some reliability & scaling problems. This is not news. I had maintained for a month that twitter having some problems was the best thing that ever happened to them. Thousands and thousands of bloggers complained about the problems they were experiencing; which only drove more brand awareness, more blog posts, millions of […]
Facebook Ads Newsletter Launched
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford July 1st, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Advertising, Facebook Marketing, Facebook News.Breaking News: Facebook Ads Newsletter is now live: In an effort to proactively reach out and educate marketers and advertisers facebook has just launched the premier edition of the “Facebook Ads Newsletter”.
Per Facebook: “These newsletters will keep you updated about what we’re doing to improve your advertising experience including news, product iterations and improvements, best […]
Spock Decides it Wants to be FriendFeed?
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 1st, 2008 in social networks. Rating: People search engine Spock has recently added some additional features. It looks like they are shifting away from their core of being a people search engine and turning into another life streaming service like friendfeed or socialthing.
Seriously, do i need to go through this exercise of setting up all my services in […]
Twitters Business Model Does Not Matter
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 1st, 2008 in twitter. People keep talking about twitter and what is it’s business model. At this point in time the business model or plans to monetize are not what is critical or important.
Twitter has investors that have put over 15 million dollars in the bank for them to use. VC’s do not invest in companies that […]
250K New Users Add Facebook Every Day
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 1st, 2008 in Facebook.Facebook has experienced phenomenal growth in the past year. They are currently at over 80 Million users. On average they are adding over 250,000 new user every day! This brings some major technological challenges as well as scaling issues.
Facebook has operated through this phenomenal growth curve with virtually no loss or interruption of service. Not […]
Facebook Mini-Feed Commenting Rolls Comments Up
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford June 26th, 2008 in Facebook.Facebook Mini-Feed Commenting just launched a few hours ago. Now when you are looking at someones mini-feed on their profile page you can leave a comment. Much in the same way that you can write on a users wall, you can now write/comment on their mini-feed activity.
In the past, you’ve been able to comment on […]
Top Friends Application Vanishes?
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford June 26th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications. Tech Crunch just reported that they noticed the Top Friends Application has disappeared from users profile pages. We also noticed that the application is no longer in the application directory.
Something is up for sure and more details will follow soon enough I am sure. Top friends was one of the worst offenders of the […]
Visa Joins Facebook
9 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford June 24th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, facebook Business.Visa Business Network Rating:
Visa Joins forces with facebook. This is great news for small businesses. We have been saying for a long time that doing business on facebook makes sense. Now it just got a lot easier for small business owners to connect, interact and advertise on facebook with the Visa Small Business Network […]
