It didn’t take long for Facebook to react to the announcement by MySpace Thursday that it would enable other Web sites to tap into information about its users and their friends. Facebook’s announcement, in a blog post Friday afternoon, is a bit sketchy on the details and has all the appearance of being rushed to match MySpace. Still, what the company calls Facebook Connect offers many of the same capabilities and a few more, too. As I wrote yesterday, there is a big shift in how the social networks are thinking about h... lire la suite
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It didn’t take long for Facebook to react to the announcement by MySpace Thursday that it would enable other Web sites to tap into information about its users and their friends. Facebook’s announcement, in a blog post Friday afternoon, is a bit sketchy on the details and has all the appearance of being rushed to match MySpace.
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While Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg tries to convince the world 20 million SuperPoke users have value, her minions are busy trying to convince enterprise developers to build applications that actually do. One area we've seen a lot of value for the social graph is in the enterprise because it's a completely different way to envision an HR system or CRM," Facebook marketing exec Chamath Palihapitiya told conference-goers Thursday.
Le site de réseauratage social Facebook semble vouloir réitérer l'exploit du "Passport" de Microsoft.
Facebook can't afford to spurn marketing firms like New York's Attention PR. But it does. Last Friday, Attention PR built a Facebook page for a client -- a new kind of souped-up profile that can be. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
Has Google Bitten Off. Main | Who Needs an MBA? Did Zuckerberg Steal Facebook? Filed in archive Bad Business by rob on November 28, 2007 Here is a fascinating article about the lawsuit three former classmates have filed against Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that he stole their ideas and built Facebook.
As I mentioned in my last post, you can think of Zombies* and its Monster app brethren (Vampires, Werewolves and Slayers) as an asychronous massively multiplayer online game. It is essentially a PvP dueling game, not unlike duels. com, but much lighterweight. Many of the core elements of a game are already there;
As I spend more time investigating games 2. and asynchronous gaming, I keep getting drawn into the area of asynchronous mutliplayer casual gaming, perhaps with friends. One of the emerging leaders in this space is Social Gaming Network, part of webs. com. Earlier this month the Mercury News put up a good overview of what the Social Gaming Network is doing.
Friday on Twitter I posed the question, should brands join existing social networks (like Facebook, MySpace, etc) or build their own social network (like these many white label tools)? I asked my Twitter network: Should brands Join or Build their own Social Networks? Here’s the tally from the many responses:
Thanks to truly brilliant stream of Auntie P. I’m very late to this, and originally I wasn’t planning to comment on the Scoble-Facebook thingy, (see techmeme) but after seeing James Governor’s deli. cio. us link comment,about Nick Carr’s post, I figured I’d jump in. James said…
Three good blog posts recently about games on Facebook. Brian Green talks to a developer with two games, one casual and one hardcore, and based on that concludes that hardcore games do better: I suspect the reason is because people still enjoy a good game, even if it has “hardcore” aspects like direct, zero-sum competition.
Erick Schonfeld submits: Four months after Facebook announced the formation of the $10 million fbFund to provide seed capital for startups building Facebook apps, MySpace (NWS) is responding with its own incubator to be called Slingshot Labs. According to the NYT, the incubator will be financed by News Corp.
Yesterday morning I woke up early. Was sitting in the hotel lobby at 7 a. m. trying to check email when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, which now has 68 million active users (people who’ve signed on in the past 30 days).
As those who've attended my sessions will know, I really like Popfly, I think it's the future of how people will build applications, and it's also incredibly cool to demo. It qualified as one of PC World's top 25 most innovative products of the year. I had some extra time this weekend and built a quick application using Dapper and Popfly.
Visiblement les grands esprits se rencontrent : je vous présentais la semaine dernière des exemples de mini-sites a encapsuler et voila qu’un éditeur est déja disponible : Sprout Builder. Il s’agit en fait d’un service de conception de widgets. Widgets ? Oui, c’est leur façon a eux de décrire un mini-site :
Gametap reports that EA has a stealth division to build social games: Electronic Arts is putting some of its biggest brains behind what could turn out to be some of its smallest games. The brains include former Electronic Arts Los Angeles general manager Neil Young and that studio’s director of artist and repertoire for Electronic Arts Alan Yu.
Ahh, the patina is shedding off of Facebook. Looks like the trend I noticed when I was in London talking with Maryam’s niece in December has hit home for Facebook. Is usage down? My own usage is certainly down. Here’s why: First, Facebook depresses me. I can’t add new friends, so the “game, er, fun” of Facebook has gone away for me (yes, building my social network was fun for me).
Michael Parekh points to the Youtube video below and calls it further evidence of Facebook fatigue. I disagree. I’m not a diehard Facebook fanboy, but I’ve done enough consumer internet product management to know that you can’t ask users what they think, you have to watch what they do.
OK, I keep getting calls from people who get kicked off of Facebook for stuff that they think is normal usage of Facebook. Last week I asked Mark Zuckerberg about it, and he said they only kicked off people who were spamming. So, today, when Nathan Stebeski called me I asked him “mind if I record you?
Venturebeat reports that some game companies are planning on launching teaser games into Facebook primarily to promote the sale of their “full” games at retail: Unlike the one-off casual games you'll generally find on the internet, Gnosis makes theme packages like Candie's Factory, which is billed as an action / puzzle game.