Archive for maj, 2009

At some point in the past 48 hours Facebook has made public profile comments and likes public information. Earlier this week I was browsing through public profiles (aka. Facebook pages) and noticed that comments and likes were not public information. Then this morning I was browsing through Facebook pages (while not logged in… »

It may be hard to believe, but it’s already been two years since the Facebook Platform launched in May 2007. Since then, we’ve seen over 50,000 applications published (and tens of thousands more not published in the directory), significant changes to the way successful applications are designed, and a number of twists and turns –… »

If you’ve spoken to me about development at any point in the past few months, you’d know I’ve become a big fan of CodeIgniter for quick application development in PHP. Any regular programmer will always look for ways to save time during the development process. If you happen to be developing a Facebook… »

On Tuesday of last week, Apple launched its official iTunes Facebook Page, and fans have already interacted with the page around 1 million times.
The official iTunes page marks Apple’s second official public profile on Facebook, the first being the Apple Students page. The Apple Students page was launched a few years ago when Facebook was… »

Hedder du Vind, Iuel eller Holbek er der en god chance for, at du er adelig.
Og dem – altså medlemmer af den danske adel – er der blevet mange flere af, efter at Facebook har vundet indpas.
På… »

Casper Lyhne, som stiftede en mindeside på Facebook for den afdøde 13-årige håndboldspiller, skal også til begravelsen i… »

When former Facebook CTO and VP of Engineering Adam D’Angelo left the company last May, it wasn’t clear what he would do next. Now, D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever, the former head of engineering for Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect, who also recently left the company, have founded a new startup called Alma Networks. The company… »

Facebook has just announced the winners of the 2009 fbFund competition – 18 startups and two non-profits – who will also be invited to participate in the fbFund REV 2009 summer incubator program at Facebook’s offices in Palo Alto.
While Facebook has not yet announced specific details on equity investments, Cat Lee of the Facebook Platform… »

This afternoon Facebook has announced this year’s participants in the fbFund incubator program. Two out of the eighteen participants are non-profits, meaning that they will not receive any funding but will still be able to participate in the incubator program. We’ve discussed the fbFund on a number of occasions. Over a week… »

This afternoon Hulu announced the launch of Hulu desktop which is extremely impressive. The service lets users view all Hulu videos through a single application which provides an interactive interface for navigating videos and queuing up new ones. It’s essentially a video media player for your desktop. So what ever happened to… »