Archive for the 'Facebook News' Category
Facebook To Get 50,000 New Servers? Yikes!
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford May 10th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News. Facebook will be getting ~50,000 new servers over the next 1-2 years. Facebook has secured a 100 million dollar lease from Triplepoint Ventures according to Business Week to fund the technology that they will need to handle all of that growth & good data that people are sharing.
Rumor has it that facebook has […]
Dippity Makes Lifestream Visuals
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 9th, 2008 in Facebook News, social media, widgets.Dippity makes really cool lifestream visuals that allow you to see a timeline for blog posts, tweets, rss feeds, video, etc. As we are are all starting to feel like we are drowning from the our lifestreams, a tool comes along and rolls it all up into an easy way to consume in a tiny […]
Facebook Connect Pulls Back The Curtain: Data Portability!
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 9th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.Breaking News: Facebook Announces Facebook Connect
With the launch of Facebook Connect, facebook will be enabling people to communicate and stay connected wherever they go. This is a great step forward as many new services will jump up around using those friend connections that you have on facebook. We had already mentioned that using facebook as […]
Facebook Snares Google Communication Exec
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford May 6th, 2008 in Facebook News, business.The executive team at Facebook continues to gain strength, depth and experience. Facebook has just landed former Vice President of Global Communications & Public Affairs from Google Elliot Schrage.
He will be serving at facebook in the capacity of VP of Communications & Corporate Policy. He brings a wealth of experience and depth to the […]
Facebook IM Live Everywhere
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 23rd, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.Is is now official. Facebook has officially launched their instant message system to the entire network of 70+ million users starting 2 hours ago. Facebook started rolling the IM service out slowly to selected networks starting April 6.
Look at the bottom of your browser page while on facebook to see the IM product and settings. […]
Facebook close to settling lawsuit with ConnectU
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 7th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.Facebook close to settling lawsuit with ConnectU: The legal woes between these 2 companies has been going on for quite some time. Sources close to the New York Times say that it would appear that facebook is close to reaching a settlement with ConnectU.
According to the NY Times “A person briefed on the status […]
Facebook Legal Woes Continue
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford April 3rd, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.It looks like the legal mess surround the original code for facebook was stolen, is still not resolved. Good thing Facebook has funds to defend it’s case.
According to Bloomberg: Facebook will now have to defend against a lawsuit that accuses founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing computer code, an appeals court has recently decided.
Yesterday’s […]
Facebook Applications Break 20K Milestone
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford March 28th, 2008 in Branding, Facebook Applications, Facebook News.Facebook Breaks 20K Application Milestone: The big news today is that facebook has over 20K applications now on the platform. Facebook has hit this milestone in under a year since they opened up the platform to developers.
When facebook launched the F8 platform there was huge buzz. Naysayers said that there would only be a few […]
Facebook snags another 40 million investment
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford March 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News. Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing said Thursday he has increased his personal investment in social networking site Facebook to more than US$100 million, and might invest even more. He had previously invested 60 million at the same time that microsoft invested a few months back.
“Facebook is doing very well and we could have some […]
Facebook introduces you to ‘People You May Know’
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 27th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook News, Facebook updates.Rating:
Facebook quietly launched a new feature that connects you with people you may know. It was a soft launch, but the implementation is pretty effective. It can be found in the Friend Finder section of the service.
Like the similar feature popularized by FriendFeed, Facebook draws on mutual connections between friends. It’s fairly accurate so […]
