Archive for the 'facebook Business' Category
Happy Birthday Facebook Platform
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford June 4th, 2009 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, facebook Business, Facebook f8 platform.I can’t believe how fast time flies when you are having fun. It seems like only yesterday when I ran the first Facebook developers garage in San Diego right after the facebook platform launched. Happy Birthday Facebook Platform! The number of applications on the platform is in the tens of thousands. The ROI and engagement [...]
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 [...]
Cisco Boils Down Web 2.0 For Business
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 3rd, 2008 in Branding, facebook Business, social media, social networks.Cisco Boils Down Web 2.0 For Business: Get the truth about web2.0 Check out this streaming webinar event today at Cisco at 10:00 a.m. PST. It features Jeremiah Owyang From Forrester Research & Robert Scoble (we just a video interview with him a few days ago here). This looks like it will really help CMO, [...]
Wired Science app gets it right — big time
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson March 31st, 2008 in Branding, Facebook, Facebook Advertising, Facebook Applications, facebook Business, Facebook Marketing.Rating: First of all, Wired Science is awesome. It’s like Nova combined with Mr. Wizard and rolled into one product that manages to stay informative and amusing. I’m really completely thrilled by the show, but there’s more. Wired Science recently unveiled its own Facebook app and it’s a winner. The app combines the offbeat nature [...]
Sheryl Sandberg gets to work at Facebook
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 24th, 2008 in Facebook, facebook Business, Facebook News.The former Google VP of Global Online Sales and Operations Sheryl Sandberg has started her first day at Facebook today. Sandberg will be serving as the social network’s COO and bringing a considerable amount of maturity experience to the company. According to Kara Swisher, her position will oversee sales, human resources, marketing and communications and [...]
Facebook Chat video surfaces, Privacy Controls tighten
2 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 18th, 2008 in facebook Business, Facebook Chat, Facebook privacy.Facebook today announced (officially) a new chat function and a bunch of features that will enhance privacy controls throughout the site. The video above demonstrates the features of the new widely rumored chat client. While it is initially a bit lacking, Facebook has expressed intentions to expand the service quickly. It’s believed that over time, [...]
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 [...]
Social News gets Mixx’ed on Facebook
3 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 29th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, facebook Business, facebook developer, Facebook f8 platform.Digg-competitor Mixx has launched its own Facebook app, aiming to bring its own brand of social news to the social network. Mixx has been making headlines lately, first with the implementation of clustered, meme-style stories and more recently with the announcement that it had secured $2 million in Series A1 capital. So what’s the verdict [...]
Facebook looking for new management?
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 22nd, 2008 in Facebook, facebook Business, Facebook News.Kara Swisher seems to be stalking the Facebook managerial staff. Every time they do anything, she’s on the ball with a report outlining what they ate, how many refills they got on that martini and whether they properly tipped the blind guy that holds towels in the bathroom. This time, she writes that in the [...]
The UADA: Mystery entity tops Adonomics top 40 app companies
1 Comment Published by Blake Robinson February 18th, 2008 in Facebook Advertising, Facebook Applications, facebook Business, Facebook controversy, facebook developer, Facebook f8 platform.TechCrunch today caught an interesting emergence on the Adonomics valuation chart. A mystery company dubbed The UADA has recently topped the chart of App companies with over 97 million installs, 3.1 million active users and a valuation of about $223 million — over a week before it’s even launched. Research done into The UADA has [...]
