When Facebook released their platform last year, the company generated more buzz in the Valley since Google went public. Thousands of developers flocked to their platform and now more than 40,000 applications have been built. Many of the early applications were widgets and one application in particular, Bumper Sticker, attracted over 12 million […]
A couple weeks ago I wrote about Facebook preparing to overtake MySpace domestically. Last week Hitwise published data that suggested that MySpace was more than 3 times the size of Facebook domestically. What?!? Nobody appeared to even question the statistics. Today Royal Pingdom used Google Trends to produce similar results to those […]
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While it’s widely known that Facebook and Microsoft are collaborating on implementing Live Search in Facebook sometime “by the end of the year,” there is another Facebook group at Microsoft that you may not have heard of.
Sebastian Gard, Viral Marketing Manager in the Digital Experiences team at Live Search Consumer Marketing, is heading up an […]
Last night Facebook rolled out their highly anticipated new iPhone application and with it a whole slew of new features. Some of the new features includes:
Access to a complete newsfeed duplicating the functionality currently available on the site. This includes feed item commenting which makes this a mobile competitor to FriendFeed,
Access to all […]
Facebook tonight launched version 2.0 of its Facebook for iPhone application, bringing many features that were before only available on the site to a mobile device for the first time.
With version 2.0:
The home page now features a full News Feed, along with access to filtered views of the News Feed, like Status Updates, Posted Items, […]
Every Facebook application developer faces a major architectural decision when starting a new app: whether to build canvas pages in FBML - Facebook’s subset of HTML with some elements removed and other proprietary elements added - or iframes. Over the course of the last year, many developers have chosen to build in FBML because new […]
Facebook tonight launched an updated version of their home page design. The visuals have been revamped, but user search has been removed. Public search is still available at this page, but it’s not clear if that page will still live once the redesign is complete.
Facebook said last week that the full redesign would be complete […]
Early this evening a few users began reporting that a new login page began appearing for Facebook. This makes sense given the company’s redesign. This new homepage design and the redesign of their login page may signal the final transfer of users over to the new design. While we can’t confirm that […]
From what I hear, the greeting card business is a great one: hire freelance artists in small towns across America on contract, get as much distribution as you can, and sell them for $3-$6 a pop. The folks at Blue Mountain Arts figured this out early on in history of the web, creating a free […]
Facebook is beefing up its corporate legal team with the addition of Ted Ullyot, most recently of Kirkland & Ellis where he was recruited by former US special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, Jessica Guynn at the LA Times reports.
Ullyot has very strong ties to the Republican Party, having previously worked as a White House lawyer “who […]
This week Facebook is expected to migrate all users to the redesigned version of the site, almost six months since the initial profile redesign announcement. Today, we look back on the three major stories that have arisen during this process: user backlash, app declines, and application bookmarking.
User complaints
Much like the introduction of the News […]
This […]
Last year it was revealed that the CIA had launched a recruiting campaign on Facebook. It appears that Secret Intelligence Service in the United Kingdom has decided to log-on to Facebook as well for recruiting purposes. The organization has launched advertisements including one which according to the Guardian says “Time for a career […]
According to the LA Times this morning, Facebook has Ted Ullyot as its general counsel. Ullyot has a jam packed resume including “serving as a White House lawyer who helped coordinate the response to the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity and serving as chief of staff to former U.S. […]
You probably know a lot of people on Facebook already, and they are probably wondering why your not on it yet. Facebook is one largest social networking sites on the web and it’s a great way to keep in touch with your friends. As more and more people join Facebook is becoming an important tool […]