Archive for the 'Facebook' Category
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 […]
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 […]
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 and 49 Attorney Generals Join Forces
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford May 8th, 2008 in Facebook.Breaking: Facebook and 49 Attorney Generals Join Forces: As part of an ongoing joint effort with the Attorneys General of 49 states and DC around online safety, Facebook has agreed to continue and enhance a number of protections that it has deployed on the site centered around inappropriate conduct and content.
According to Chris Kelly, Facebook […]
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 […]
Windows Live Messenger Facebook App Stinks
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 30th, 2008 in Facebook. Microsoft has just launched a Live Messenger Application on facebook. Rating:
Windows Live Messenger Facebook App Stinks: I would expect a better solution from Microsoft. It just goes to show how difficult it can be for very sophisticated companies that try to shoehorn a depreciated solution into facebook.
I can see who else has […]
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 […]
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. […]
Ping.fm for Status Broadcasting
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 20th, 2008 in Facebook, social networks.Ping.FM Rating:
More and more people are participating on multiple social networks. The challenge of updating your status has become time consuming and cumbersome when you are wanting your status updates to go to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, hi5, Pownce, bebo, Blogger, Jaiku, Myspace, Live Journal, etc.
We have discovered a nice service that actually allows you […]
Business, Communication & Connections
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 18th, 2008 in Facebook, business.Excerpt from an article in Search Unified Communications: Despite facebooks enormous presence, the site (facebook) is still generally off the radar when it comes to acknowledging its role in modern professional lives. “It changes the way you can build relationships,” said Rodney Rumford of Gravitational Media, a social networking consulting firm. In some ways, he […]
