Posts Tagged with ‘facebook-apps’

Facebook platform for third-party applications is rightfully considered to be the most open one for third-party developers to host their applications on platforms offered by the largest social networks. And it is no surprising as anyone could easily develop an application for just about anything based on Facebook API and see incredible viral growth for the application if acting right. And while all the applications were created equal on the platform, this situation has just been changed with Facebook launching [...]

Facebook is going through something of a rough patch at the moment. It’s getting heat from just about all sides for its “overreaching” Beacon advertising initiative, and as a result the site is now routinely hounded by a large number of bloggers and podcasters for, among other things, generally existing and occupying the tubes of the Web. Hey, it happens. You give people a reason to revolt, and, well, there’s a good chance they will.
Now we’ve heard the site’s [...]

For those of you who don't know, Pyro.TV is a service that collects videos from around the web, and presents them to users as channels, similar to traditional television. In some ways, it is comparable to VeohTV.
The bread-and-butter of the service lies in the ability for each user to create their own channels of their favorite videos, which can then be shared amongst others.
Now, Vibe Solutions Group, the company behind the service, has announced that the Pyro.TV video channel service [...]

It has only been three short months since the launch of the Facebook Platform, which gave developers an opportunity to integrate other services into the growing social network via widgets, and this first quarter proved quite impressive.
Now, there are well over 3000 applications to choose from in the Facebook application directory. Some Facebook apps have even received noticeable attention from investors and interested companies. Where I've Been is one such example, which was rumored to have sold to TripAdvisor for [...]

Whether you question the viability of Facebook “apps” for the long run (I am) or really are completely gung-ho from concept to end product (I’m not), it doesn’t change the fact that some in The Valley are feeling quite bullish when it comes to stuff built with APIs proffered by Zuckerberg & Co.
By some, I mean the folks at the very public venture capital firm Bay Partners. As it turns out, they’ve gone ahead and established an annex fund [...]