Posts Tagged with ‘facebook-platform’

Facebook fatigue. Have you heard the phrase? Are you suffering from it? Where once I logged into Facebook first thing every morning to check status updates and new links from tech-minded friends, I can't tell you the last time I logged in. And I no longer seem to get friend requests, although I regularly find adds on FriendFeed and LinkedIn.
Today is the first anniversary of the launch of the Facebook Platform, and it was marked with the official announcement that [...]

During 2007, the former college student-limited social network known as Facebook experienced its most successful year to date in terms of growth and traffic. All eyes were on Facebook for the now widely-mimicked developer API, as well as the advertising platform designed to help monetize its surging crop of applications. Facebook was even supposedly valued at a worth of $15 billion (according to Microsoft’s $240 million investment), which is not bad for a company whose CEO is just 23 years [...]

A recent conversation with LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye at the New York Times, revealed some of the details involved with the business networking site's future plans to offer a developer platform.
With the Facebook Platform, developers are free to develop whatever applications their minds can come up with, which accounts for some useless apps, such as the Homeland Security Terror Alert Advisor that constantly shows the terror alert level in your profile and Booze Mail which allows you to send friends [...]

Today, Michael Arrington has suggested at TechCrunch that MySpace's developer platform will launch as soon as next week, most likely coinciding with the Web 2.0 Summit taking place in San Francisco from October 17-19. Not only that, but developers will reportedly have the ability to serve their own advertising within applications and keep 100% of the revenue, much like Facebook!
It was first mentioned that MySpace would introduce a developer platform back in June, when MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe told Financial [...]

With all of the attention that the Facebook Platform has received, the latest rumor about about the new developer platform from social networking site Tagged has to be the most interesting… at least for developers.
Back in June, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussed his plans to offer a platform more like Facebook, followed by MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe expressing that ?the [Facebook] platform is interesting,? and announcing that MySpace will become more open to developers. Just yesterday, Hi5 also [...]

The launch of the Facebook Platform led to a massive increase in Facebook's user base, not to mention a slew of applications that developers are hoping will manage to generate some kind of revenue.
Since that launch, several other social networks, such as MySpace, Bebo and LinkedIn, have kept a watchful eye, with some making plans for their own development platforms.
Today, Hi5 looks to be the next social network to follow the example that Facebook has set, with their [...]

The online music service known as iLike owes much of its recent success to social networking service Facebook, which developers at iLike developed an app for shortly after the launch of the Facebook Platform.
Now, iLike wants to make integration between Facebook and its service as easy and effortless as possible for the musicians who mantain profiles. The new Artist Services Platform provides music artists with one artist page to maintain across both iLike & Facebook and claims to make it [...]

This question has been haunting me since being posted on my Facebook fun wall by a colleague of mine. I needed to find an answer and put the nagging ghost to rest.
“Is Facebook a business application?”
Having previously joined Facebook myself out of curiosity and the fact like all techies I liked NSO’s (New Shiny Objects) I decided to begin my search by reading what Facebook itself had to say. Something I had not bothered with prior based on the fact [...]

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 [...]