Archive for juli, 2010

Facebook announced this morning that it is to double the size of its Oregon based data center, expanding the facility before construction has even been completed.
Posting on the Prineville Data Center Facebook page, Facebook added that it will be expanding its 147,000 square foot shell to encompass another 160,000 square feet, the additional area will… »

Perhaps you’ve heard: social games maker Playdom was acquired by Disney a few days ago for a deal potentially worth north of $750 million. Playdom CEO John Pleasants took the stage today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, to talk a bit about the deal and the future.
Pleasants says that he’s not exactly… »

Today at TechCrunch’s CrunchUp conference, PlacePop officially launched its loyalty card iPhone app and social service. Instead of businesses offering deals to customers checking in to a centralized location-based service, users check-in directly to a business’ custom PlacePop loyalty card, digitally punching the card, earning rewards, and sharing their actions.
It’s a new example of companies… »

Facebook Questions Absent in Search Engines – Facebook launched its Questions service this week but so far the results are not available ins  search results. Search Engine Land reported that a Facebook spokesperson tells them, “Currently, search engines cannot access questions and answers through our Questions product. That may be something we… »

Last month, we noted that Twitter was testing a “You both follow” feature, showing users you and another user both follow. That’s interesting, but not particularly useful. Today, they’ve begun to roll out a new “Suggestions for You” feature which looks at who you follow, and who the people you follow follow, and suggests new… »

Facebook’s in-house business incubator and mini financier, fbFund, appears to be mothballed. After two years of funding companies building on Facebook’s developer platform, the program’s success has been dwarfed by the massive new social gaming market, and by the growing ecosystem of marketing service companies around its performance advertising and Page products.
After noticing that the… »

Following up on years of Facebook saying that it is not planning to make an initial public offering any time soon or not commenting on rumors to that effect, a new report out… basically has that same message. “Facebook Inc. will probably put off its initial public offering until 2012, giving Chief Executive Officer Mark… »

Facebook has taken a rather surprising tactic with the launch of Facebook Questions – for now at least, the questions and answers on the service are not indexed on search engines. The content on Facebook Questions can only be viewed by logged-in Facebook users, making them invisible to the likes of Google and Bing.

A Facebook… »

Exhibiting poise, insight and respect, Nigerian President Goodluck Johnson has risen to the top of the list of politicians using social media effectively. Johnson set up a Facebook account a little over a month ago and has posted at least once a day since. However, it is not simply the number of posts that makes… »

Facebook has raised the bar for application developers – creating new rules for applications with more than 5 million active monthly users. Previously the additional requirements only kicked in for applications with more than 5 million active daily users.

The terms on the Facebook Developer Principles & Policies page have been updated with the following clause:
“If… »