Looks like the venture funding is still flowing for Facebook applications. The immensely popular Friends for Sale application has received $4 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners. At its basic level Friends for Sale doesn’t really have much of a business model but they are currently one of the most popular games on the […]
Serious Business, Inc., makers of popular Facebook social game Friends For Sale, has raised a $4 million Series A venture round from Lightspeed Venture Partners at an undisclosed “healthy double-digit” valuation. The investment will be announced by Lightspeed’s Jeremy Liew, who is becoming a board member, and Siqi Chen, co-founder of Serious Business, at this […]
While the following video doesn’t have much that stands out to me, one thing has really grabbed my attention: how much Facebook has become an integral part of many peoples’ lives. I had a good 30 minutes of conversation last night with two individuals who enjoy Facebook chat but could give you hours of […]
Facebook Chat has enabled quicker communication than was ever before possible on the site. New features unique to Facebook Chat include live notifications, integration of mini-feed events in the message windows, and the ability to maintain state (such as whether conversations are minimized, and which are open) across the site. And as a sign […]
I won’t add much editorial to these stories because they speak for themselves, but these three sobering headlines crossed my desk today:
Israeli soldier jailed for Facebook photo
A member of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has been jailed for 19 days after posting a picture of himself on Facebook without permission…
Egypt frees Facebook activist
Egypt on Wednesday […]
Facebook chat rolled out yesterday but apparently some users are already tired of it. Jesse Stay just contacted me to tell me about a new greasemonkey script that he hacked together that blocks chat for Facebook users. Personally, I’ve kind of enjoyed the limited amount of Facebook chat experience I’ve had so far […]
Even though MySpace hasn’t turned on all its viral channels yet, the MySpace App Gallery is now live for all users and is being promoted in the header of all MySpace pages.
Since the MySpace App Gallery launched in beta just six weeks ago, over 1,000 applications have been created by developers and approved by the […]
Last night, Pete Bratach announced the addition of real-time notifications integrated into chat. As soon as an application sends a notification to a user, they will be immediately notified in the chat bar on their screen. This new addition has the potential to increase the conversion of users from notifications to application installs. […]
This morning at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco I moderated the Comparing Social Platforms panel, which was comprised of awesome folks speaking on behalf of the top social platforms on the web today:
Allen Hurff, SVP of Engineering at MySpace
Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager at Facebook
Jessica Alter, Director of Platform and Business Development at Bebo
Patrick Chanezon, […]
New Inside Facebook Top Jobs for April 23:
Software Engineer (FamilyBuilder.com / New York, NY)
New Inside Facebook Top Jobs for April 23:
Software Engineer (FamilyBuilder.com / New York, NY)
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Two and a half weeks after Facebook Chat launched in beta to some US college users, as of early this morning Chat is now available for all Facebook users. Facebook has been slowly rolling out the launch since April 6 - users in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston got access in […]
Yesterday morning I said that Facebook chat would be open for all within a matter of weeks. It appears as though it happened within hours of my post as it now appears that everyone has access to chat. I have received 20 IMs in the past hour. Considering that I had only […]
The Telegraph posted an article earlier this morning stating that “Facebook has been accused of encouraging online bullying.” This is claimed to be a result of the Honesty Box application which enables users to post anonymous messages on each others’ walls. The application has been at the center controversy since its launch with […]
When the Facebook Platform launched in May 2007, it included access to a number of Facebook’s powerful communication channels right from the start (unlike some other platforms that have launched since). Access to these channels - profile boxes, invitations, notifications, and feed items - allowed applications to spread quite quickly. However, due to user experience […]
New Inside Facebook Top Jobs for April 22:
Internet / Facebook Engineer (VoxPop.TV / SF Bay Area)
New Inside Facebook Top Jobs for April 22:
Internet / Facebook Engineer (VoxPop.TV / SF Bay Area)
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