Archive for the 'Facebook f8 platform' Category
On the Zuckerberg Keynote
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 9th, 2008 in Facebook Advertising, Facebook Applications, Facebook Groups, Facebook News, Facebook Pages, Facebook Trends, Facebook acquisitions, Facebook f8 platform, facebook Business.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 reporter […]
Social News gets Mixx’ed on Facebook
3 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 29th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook f8 platform, facebook Business, facebook developer.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 on […]
What is Plink? Inquiring Facebookers want to know.
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 27th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Software, Facebook f8 platform, Facebook photo, facebook developer.I’ve been staring at Plink for about a week now and I have to say that I’m still completely and utterly befuddled. Even after several transactions with company founder Chris Guerra, I cannot for the life of me figure out what this thing is supposed to do — and, believe me, I’ve tried.
As far […]
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 controversy, Facebook f8 platform, facebook Business, facebook developer.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 uncovered […]
Just Three Words brings creative gaming to Facebook Platform
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 18th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Fun, Facebook Review, Facebook f8 platform, facebook developer.Rating:
In my previous post, I expressed a considerable amount of disdain for the current state of Facebook applications. Jason Rubenstein responded to the post suggesting that I take a look at Just Three Words, a game made by his company Scoob & Gecko. Always on the lookout for apps that don’t suck, I decided […]
Facebook Platform: The State of the Apps
8 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 15th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook f8 platform, facebook Business, facebook developer.There is a fundamental flaw in the overall state of Facebook applications. The issue as I see it is that for a venue with as much potential Facebook, the apps built on its platform have no real use (other than diversionary). It seems as though almost every Facebook app is something irrelevant, some way to […]
FriendFeed launches Facebook streaming app
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 11th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook f8 platform, facebook Business.Rating:
This is a that has taken a long time to see the light of day. Not FriendFeed specifically, but the service it offers — a unified stream of user datas from multiple social networks, businesses and other entities that have sites with profiles. It’s simple, which is a characteristic that surpasses all features for […]
APPMRKT: A platform to pawn your Facebook app
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 8th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook f8 platform, facebook Business.Rating:
The recently launched APPMRKT bills itself as “a marketplace for Facebook applications.” The company hopes to cash in on the ever-growing Facebook Platform by providing a venue for app developers to to sell-off their wares to would-be buyers.
Glancing over the service at this point, though, reveals no apps currently for sale. Not […]
Facebook to make applications less annoying
3 Comments Published by Blake Robinson February 6th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook f8 platform, Facebook spam, facebook developer.Facebook announced last night an important update to Platform that will throttle the number of notifications allotted to each app. Currently every application has a static upper limit of 40 notifications per user per day. That number will now be variable and will be adjusted according to various forms of feedback.
One of the methods […]
Myspace Platform: A First Comparison to Facebook
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford February 5th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook f8 platform, MySpace.Myspace Platform: A First Comparison to the Facebook platform. Myspace just opned their platform to the developer community about 12 hours. We have been poking around the platform and have found a few items that are worthy to note when considering if you should have an application for your brand in myspace also. “Widgets” have […]
