Yesterday SNAP Interactive (stock ticker: STVI), the company behind a number of popular dating Facebook applications, released the unaudited earnings for the first quarter. In comparison to 4th quarter, when they earned $388,000, the company posted revenues in excess of $518,000. We wrote about SNAP interactive back in January when Adam Ostrow had […]
A little over a month ago I announced the launch of the Animoto Facebook application. At the time I suggested that this application could easily become a competitor to Slide’s primary application that became popularized via millions of MySpace profiles. Well it looks as though my prediction has come true. Animoto is […]
Yesterday Om Malik discussed a conversation he had with Sarik Weber who’s company had developed a free SMS application on Facebook. Om as well as Sarik were surprised with the relatively low success of the application. Additionally, Om noted that the top SMS application on Facebook were only receiving around 500 active daily […]
With an ever increasing number of Facebook Platform ad networks these days, it’s becoming harder to differentiate between them on anything other than price performance. However, new San Francisco-based Facebook ad network Identified Hits is taking a cue from Facebook’s in-house monetization team and offering a new variation on the ad unit itself: endorsement-based ads […]
As the Platform matures, so are applications. More and more applications are providing robust functionality that need the same security features as sites on the open web.
While Facebook is working on a secure payments solution for application developers wanting to accept payments but unable to setup a payments infrastructure themselves (and not wanting to use […]
Earlier today I had the opportunity to speak with David Recordon of Six Apart. He has been working on a Facebook application for the past few months that is pretty interesting and extremely simple. The application enables bloggers quickly post their blog posts from within Facebook and send notifications of that post to […]
Facebook today announced the launch of Facebook Lexicon, a visualization tool reminiscent of Google Trends. Just as Google Trends measures and compares search query volume across multiple terms, Facebook Lexicon shows how frequently your search terms appear in Facebook Wall conversations over time.
Lexicon only counts profile, group, and event Wall conversations - it doesn’t count […]
Facebook has just turned on Chat in a “few networks” (including mine) this morning and I think it’s a great implementation. While Facebook hasn’t announced an official rollout schedule, Chat will be gradually rolling out over the coming days.
Facebook has added a new Chat bar to the bottom of the page that’s always present everywhere […]
I have decided to take the plunge and start using twitter to supplement my blogging and Facebooking. You can add me here. If you follow me, I will follow you.
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I have decided to take the plunge and start using twitter to supplement my blogging and Facebooking. You can add me here. If you follow […]