Facebook Gathering Feedback on their Ads
Thursday, June 5th, 2008I think this is smart move by Facebook.
fbOpen
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008I don’t know the specifics of the fbOpen project, but the concept is very cool with lots of potential.
Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and Friend Connect
Saturday, May 10th, 2008MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter
Announcing Facebook Connect
Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday
I won’t pretend to know too much about these programs, but I will say this — the business development divisions of Google, Myspace, and Facebook are going to be working overtime recruiting partners […]
The Reality of Facebook
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008I couldn’t resist sharing this video that my friend sent me earlier today.
People You May Know on Facebook
Monday, March 31st, 2008I’m not sure when it went live since I’ve been gone awhile, but I absolutely love facebook’s “People you may know” suggestions that can now be seen on the right side of your Facebook profile. I just discovered it and I’ve found many of the recommendations are pretty good — it popped up quite […]
Facebook in Spanish? Check
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Mashable just reported that Facebook is now available in Spanish. That’s awesome news, both for Facebook expansion and for me. I took two years of Spanish in high school, but 2 years of language classes almost 10 years ago isn’t sufficient to be fluent — far from it. Where am I going with this? I […]
Suggested Friends?
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Brilliant.
Myspace is Finally Making a Stride to Catch up With Facebook
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Myspace’s new open “platform” (announced in October) that will allow developers to integrate their applications into Myspace is set to go live February 5th, according to TechCrunch. I haven’t logged into myspace in over a week, whereas I’m on Facebook every day — and nothing about an open platform similar to Facebook’s is going to […]
Facebook-Bebo & One-Upping Open Social - But I Still Have One Question
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007I’m not going to analyze the HUGE news on Techmeme, but there’s still one issue I don’t understand — sure, apps built for Facebook can now be integrated into Bebo. BUT, can the iLike app on FB communicate with the iLikfe app on Bebo? If I have both a Bebo & a FB profile, and […]
Small Feature Request for Facebook - Ability to Mark Messages as “For Follow Up”
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I know Facebook isn’t really going after Microsoft Outlook, but the fact of the matter is that the Facebook platform replaces almost all personal e-mail for Genderations X & Y. Just as with e-mail, some Facebook messages are just FYI’s and some need follow-ups. However, Facebook doesn’t distinguish between the two. My suggestion to FB […]
What Does OpenSocial Mean to Facebook?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Big news — Facebook has a new & VERY formidible competitor — “OpenSocial”. The New York Times is reporting that Google and a slew of partners are going to launch OpenSocial on Thursday. What is OpenSocial? TechCrunch says it is
a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers […]
Holy Smokes - Facebook is Valued at $15 Billion
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Microsoft is investing $240 million in Facebook for a 1.6% stake in the company. WOW.
There have already been dozens of people who have blogged about this, so I’m not going to bother to write anything more. But this is HUGE news — check out Techmeme for further reading.
Myspace is Copying Facebook
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007According to TechCrunch, myspace is launching a platform for developers, adding increased privacy controls, and letting you group friends. Sounds a lot like Facebook.
Not that I care (I rarely log onto myspace anymore) — but seriously, when the hell are they going to launch a myspace “newsfeed”??
Myspace is Losing Steam
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Myspace (blue) is definitely losing the battle with Facebook (red). Here’s a chart from Alexa charting reach over the past year. Yes, I know Alexa stats are not great, but I think the overall trend is correct.
Facebook to Raise Additional Money?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007With the speed of the blogosphere, this is old news already on Techmeme, but interesting nonetheless. Kara Swisher reports that Facebook may be doing some additional fundraising to tide them over til a potential IPO. I wonder which company or type of company FB is thinking about acquiring if they take on a massive round […]
Facebook’s “friends.getLists” and “friends.getListsMembers” - Finally
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Finally, it seems Facebook will solve the missing piece of Facebook. Though details are not public yet, Facebook has added two new api calls — “friends.getLists” and “friends.getListsMembers”. I think it means Facebook will be adding a way for me to group my friends — hopefully, a “newsfeed” for each group is part of this […]
The Missing Piece of Facebook
Saturday, August 4th, 2007Don’t get me wrong, I love facebook just as much as everyone else my age. However, the system does have a large problem that is a result of designing this platform for Generation Y.
Facebook doesn’t do well to different types of contacts. College kids (who were who the site was built for initally) don’t have […]
Business is All About Execution - Period
Monday, July 16th, 2007Not sure how many of you have read the latest coverage on Techmeme of the 3-year old lawsuit against Facebook. There’s also the question of whether the lawsuit will affect a potential Facebook IPO. For a summary of the lawsuit, I’ll take a page from VentureBeat and post the great summary at Portfolio:
The lawsuit, filed […]
How Much is Facebook Worth?
Friday, July 13th, 2007Dave Winer has an interesting post wondering how much Facebook is worth. My thinking is a LOT.
Update: Also relating to Facebook, I just read Scoble’s “Why Facebook, Why now?” that was super interesting. Oh yea, they’ll make $100 million this year.
Facebook Application Idea - Collaborative Trip Planning
Sunday, July 1st, 2007I got to thinking about a pretty cool Facebook app idea at Seattle Mind Camp today. Here’s the idea:
Merge a calendar application with Facebook. The use case I’m thinking of is for organizing trips.
For example, say I am going to San Francisco at the end of July (which I am). I want to put my […]