Today’s a good time to discuss my absolute favorite Facebook application, FSX, as they just upgraded their services from best to better, and the level of volatility in the stock market makes it a great time for people to play around and test their skills with zero risk. FSX is a fantasy stock market […]
I am a huge animal lover, that is not to say I love huge animals, but that I talk to my pets and have a slightly unhealthy relationship with them. My current pet is Kathrine, a formally abused guinea pig, who lives at the foot of my bed.
I recently had an application brought to […]
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is investigating Facebook’s data protection policies after complaints by users that they couldn’t fully delete their profile. This has been an ogoing issue with Facebook as users are forced to manually delete all wall posts, messages, photos, friend connections and personal data in order for it to disappear. […]
Where do bubbles come from? Well that depends who you ask. If you ask a small child, innocent and pure, they will tell you fairies make bubbles for children’s laughter. If you ask some of my larger friends, well you don’t want to know about their bubbles.
I recently ran across a game tittled Bubbles. […]
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PC Pro, a UK based magazine, is reporting this morning that the Facebook application development firm Slide has secured $50 million in backers. The article boasts that this is 10 times the normal investment in ‘web 2.0′ company.
Currently slide has 65 employees and is looking to expand to 100 by the end of the […]
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David Kaplan has posted that Facebook and Nokia are working on a mobile deal that involves not only prominent positioning for Facebook but also involves an investment in Facebook by Nokia. If the reports are true, this would be a massive deal for Facebook. Some have previously suggested that Facebook is like a personal phonebook […]
As part of the user experience improvement program (i.e. aggressive developer marketing crackdown) announced last week, Facebook is making another change to the way applications can publish stories to users’ feeds this week.
Facebook developer Ari Steinberg writes that developers will soon no longer be able to publish Mini Feed stories for a user if they […]
This is a guest column I wrote for Georgetown University’s The Hoya. The editors of The Hoya titled the piece “Facebook Affects More Than Just Your Social Life” but that doesn’t truly suit the point behind the article: Mark Zuckerberg’s untold secrets. Enjoy and let me know what you think!
For Mark Zuckerberg, the old adage, […]
Facebook has announced significant changes to the newsfeed. This is part of their ongoing battle against spammy applications. As Ari Steinberg has posted on the Facebook developer blog, application must now only post active newsfeed stories. Stories such as “Nick has just been superpoked” will now longer be accepted. Instead, only actions taken by the […]
The British Crown is taking a closer look at the way Facebook stores user data. In a report that come across the BBC wires today, Chris Vallance claims that the the UK may be seeking legal action against Facebook unless it finds a better way to manage user data.
The problem arises from what happens after […]
I was very unimpressed with Facebook’s friends lists. They’re just something I don’t see myself using. That’s why I was happy to find Kick It, an application that basically organizes your contacts for you based on the information in their profiles.
It allows you to do some very interesting research about your friends that […]
Facebook Whale (def): A person with more than 3,000 friends on Facebook.
What would it take for someone who isn’t a famous web personality to become a Facebook whale?
I mean folks like Jeff Pulver, Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington and Jason Calcanis are all whales, but shouldn’t they be? I mean given the sort of readership they […]
While many will remember the first few months after May 2007 as the “wild west” of Facebook Platform application development, 2008 is quickly becoming the year that Facebook pulled back the reigns on application developers in the name of enhancing the user experience. In the last week alone, Facebook has kicked a large portion of […]
The Facebook Platform is experiencing instability and a large number of applications are not working properly this morning.
Facebook developer Chris Nolan has pointed out a thread in the developer forums explaining the matter in detail and how to work around the problem.
The Facebook Platform is experiencing instability and a large number of applications are not […]
Mike Arrington reported this morning that the German serial entrepreneurs Alexander, Marc, and Oliver Samwer participated in Facebook’s recent investment round to the tune of a few million dollars. The Samwers join Chinese billionaire Ling Ka-Shing and Microsoft as strategic Facebook investors.
Known for their investments in studiVZ (a German Facebook clone which they sold for […]