Archive for the 'Facebook Applications' Category
RockYou Facebook Ad Network is Live
1 Comment 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 […]
Animoto Receives Funding from Amazon
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 15th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, business.Animoto Receives Funding from Amazon: The Animoto.com website, launched in August 2007, currently has over 160,000 registered users and over 7.5% of those users have paid for premium services. They have just announced that they have received funding from Amazon. The terms were not disclosed.
Animoto is a web application that lets users create professional-quality videos […]
Graphing Social Patterns EAST: DC
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 10th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, business, social media, social networks.Graphing Social Patterns EAST conference is coming to Washington DC June 9-11.
GSP is the premier conference for developers and marketers building and distributing apps for MySpace, Facebook, OpenSocial and other social networking platforms. Happening June 9-11, 2008 in the Washington, DC area, this event is for both business executives and technical developers who want […]
Facebook Profile Changes Detailed
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford May 8th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Cha… Cha… Changes are coming very soon to facebook profiles. Facebook has been talking about making some significant changes to the profile pages and how they look and feel and interact with applications. Up until a few hours ago we were sort of in the dark as to what it will entail. Facebook has just […]
Find Cheap Gas on Facebook
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford May 6th, 2008 in Facebook Applications.Find Cheap Gas on Facebook
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Want to find the cheapest gas close by and save a few bucks? Then you should try the cheap gas application on facebook. The app simply takes your Zip Code that you have registered and automatically shows you the locations & prices for the cheapest gas. It breaks […]
Twitter Solves a Murder
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 1st, 2008 in Facebook Applications.Twitter Solves a Murder… Not in the real world, but hey… they used it on CSI. From the show, as they are talking about Twitter: “They don’t expect privacy, they value openness.” “Whatever.”
It’s all about openness and sharing with Twitter. The fact that it is on CSI and it talks about how people use […]
Free Gifts Facebook App Acquired by SGN
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 30th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.The wildly popular Free Gifts Application on Facebook was recently acquired by Social Gaming Network SGN. Free gifts was the brainchild of Zach Allia. I had a chance to chat briefly with Zach last year when the app was on fire and growing like a weed. Smart idea, well executed and well adopted by the […]
What Don’t You Like About Twitter?
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 16th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, twitter.The world is abuzz about twitter. Twitter is a quick 140 character micro-blogging status platform/communication tool. there are millions of users of this service and it is growing like crazy.
We are doing some research and want to see what you think about Twitter.
We could really use your input by taking this 10 second poll: “What […]
HR Block Has Social Media Savvy
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 15th, 2008 in Branding, Facebook Applications, business, social media. HR Block Gets Social Media: I recently had the pleasure is speaking with Amy Worley who is the director of digital marketing at HR Block while attending the Forrester conference in LA.
HR Block has done a great job of having their brand participate in social media sites like facebook, myspace, second life and twitter. […]
Radical Buy Expands Outside Facebook
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 4th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.We reviewed the Radical Buy Facebook Application a few months back and really like the social auction/selling app. But they are growing fast and have expanded their business beyond far beyond facebook. I like this because it shows that many brands start on social networks and then expand outward. I think they put a very […]
