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Blogs, Facebook, Internet
Facebook Application, IamFreeTonight, Surpasses 1.2 Million Users
09.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

“NY-based IAmFreeTonight (from eTwine) has announced that their Facebook application has hit 1.2 million users in the first 5 weeks and is the biggest dating Facebook app within the network. We reviewed the main IAmFreeTonight Web application in July including a hot video review. It’s like an escort service without paying. It’s in the same category as MeetMoi (CN Review) except MM is mobile-based but both tools help you find someone to hook up with for tonight (or the near future).

From their press release: “Clifford Lerner, eTwine’s CEO, states that “we are absolutely delighted by the extraordinary growth that our latest Facebook application is experiencing and we will continue to add features to the application that appeal to the member base.” Lerner continues, “Facebook Platform has created many new commercial opportunities and a company such as eTwine must be able to react quickly in order to take advantage of the ever changing landscape. As a result of the many new revenue streams that have become available to the company, eTwine will pursue all avenues that allow the company to enhance shareholder value.” (more…)
Blogs, Facebook, Future, Networks, Steve Jobs
The Facebook economy is big business and IBM is looking to cash in
09.07.07 | Permalink | Comment?

FakeSteveJobs has posted the following rumor: “Not sure when they’re going to announce this but apparently the O.B. (Original Borg) has decided that Second Life is over and now the new hot new thing is Facebook. They are going to assign fourteen thousand IBM programmers and a hundred thousand IBM business partners to the task of creating applications for Facebook, with a commitment to spend one billion dollars over the next two years on Facebook-related business ventures. First up: a version of Lotus Notes that runs on Facebook. Also, IBM Global Services has created a Facebook consulting practice to help big companies develop strategies for moving onto Facebook, teaching them how to use Facebook to gain competitive advantage over the other companies that IBM is also assisting with Facebook-related engagements. Ad copy says the practice will be “aimed at achieving synergies, unlocking value and leveraging assets across multiple brands and platforms with an emphasis on growth, cost containment and unleashing a plan of action that can identify and solve real business pain points.”"
API, Apple, Facebook, iPhone
Facebook on the Apple iPhone - The First Great F8 Developer Application
08.28.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Cleverly leveraging their own API, Facebook’s iPhone application is the first truly convergent application for the iPhone–and Facebook for that matter. After using this for a little over one week, I see the need for a custom iPhone front page button for this app as a mere Safari bookmark doesn’t cut it.
Facebook, Office Space
Social Slacking - Facebook being blocked by Corporate America
08.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

If charged, I would plead guilty to numerous accounts of social slacking. With the advent of web 2.0 and the blogosphere it is easy to pull a Peter Gibbons and just space out online. Just this morning, I updated my Facebook profile from work and didn’t think anything of it. Corporate America has already locked down internet access to IM, streaming video, games, MP3s, and now social networking. What next? Google? That may be taking it too far, but with profits at a premium, employers want to make sure that they are getting their employees full and dedicated attention when they are plopped in their cubicles. Do I agree with this practice…of course not, but as Chris Rocks would say, “I understand.” See the article that sparked this commentary below…

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Facebook, MySpace, OpenID, Semantic Web
A call to remove the switching cost of modern day social networks
08.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon have just published a compelling post entitled, “Thoughts on the Social Graph.” If I could sum up their virtual thesis, I would say that it is a manifesto calling out for a semantic approach to social networks. Users would benefit greatly if their social networking profile/friends list was an open data set that could be ported across all social networks. As social networks have evolved, from Friendster -> MySpace -> Facebook, users have been burdened with the tedious tasks of continuously re-entering their profile information and re-sending out invites to their already established friends list onto the latest social network of choice. This switching cost can lead to a social graph disconnect wherein friends can be disconnected during this manual process. This social [networking] commentary is good news to OpenID advocates as a portable social profile may be attached to OpenID; thereby, permitting a complete and semantic social network graph that is not controlled by Corporations (FOX [MySpace] and Facebook)–the web 1.0 silo mentality. This is an interesting and important topic that creates a virtual venn diagram of today’s top internet topics: the semantic web (Web 3.0), OpenID, collective intelligence, social networking, etc…
Facebook
Facebook Souce Code - Leaked
08.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

“A small fraction of the code that displays Facebook web pages was exposed to a small number of users due to a single misconfigured web server that was fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way. Because the code that was released only powers the Facebook user interface, it offers no useful insight into the inner workings of Facebook. The reprinting of this code violates several laws and we ask that people not distribute it further.” –Brandee Barker (Facebook via TechCrunch.com)

[UPDATE: August 14, 2007] –The facebookSecrets blog has now posted the source code that drives Facebook’s site search.

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