Archive for the 'Facebook acquisitions' Category
Facebook Fund Applications: Cast Your Vote Now
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford November 11th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook acquisitions, Facebook Applications.Now that the election is over and you are coming down from that high, there is another election for you to participate in. Facebook is in the final stage of the fbFund competition. Help facebook choose the top five teams with the best applications. Each will be awarded $225,000 in addition to the $25,000 they [...]
Facebook poaching more Googlers
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson April 4th, 2008 in business, Facebook acquisitions.And this time it was a guy who did a lot of poaching while at Google — poaching of eggs that is. That’s right, Google executive chef Josef Desimone will now be preparing healthier meals to Facebook’s 20-somethings. The move comes as an obvious one to those close to the matter. Desimone and Sheryl Sandberg [...]
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 [...]
On the Zuckerberg Keynote
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 9th, 2008 in Facebook acquisitions, Facebook Advertising, Facebook Applications, facebook Business, Facebook f8 platform, Facebook Groups, Facebook News, Facebook Pages, Facebook Trends.So I originally wrote this for elsewhere. I am at the SXSW event. Everyone has covered it since and the previous outlet has decided not to run with it, so here is my take on the Zuckerberg keynote at its most controversial and unedited: Mark Zuckerberg is rich, Facebook is about communication and Business Week [...]
Facebook Platform matures, time for acquisitions?
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson February 4th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook acquisitions, Facebook Advertising, Facebook Applications, facebook Business, facebook developer, Facebook f8 platform.A lot has happened since the launch of Facebook Platform last May. The company has seen some controversy, launched some other products (controversially), gotten investments and it continues to grow exponentially — all while Platform matured. Although many developers still haven’t figured out what to do with it, others are making keen uses of Platform [...]
