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Friday October 10th, 2008

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Notes from Mark Zuckerberg at Future of Web Apps Expo in London

From Inside Facebook, 1 day ago, 0 comments Comment

Mark Zuckerberg spoke here at the Future of Web Apps Expo in London earlier today in his first visit to the city in 10 years. As is usual for these PR-controlled events, there were no startling revelations today, but there were a few interesting hints. Generally, the theme of “enabling people to share” ran through [...]
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Facebook Beefing Up Movie Marketing Efforts With Surf Film Premiere

From Inside Facebook, 2 days ago, 0 comments Comment

In an effort to demonstrate its social movie marketing potential, Facebook is gearing up for the premiere of new surf movie One Track Mind on Facebook Film next week. The 48-hour showing will go from 5:30pm PT on Thursday, October 16 until the same time on Saturday, October 18. From the flyer: [Director] Chris Malloy and [...]

Thursday October 9th, 2008

6.7
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Zuckerberg Says Facebook’s Focus is on Growth, Not Revenue

From Inside Facebook, 2 days ago, 0 comments Comment

Those investors buying Facebook shares next month and hoping the company will put the revenue pedal to the medal will probably need to be a little more patient. In an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is focused on growth first, revenue second. (Note these translations [...]
2.3
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Facebook Awards €40,000 to Winners of German Application Contest

From Inside Facebook, 2 days ago, 0 comments Comment

While Facebook’s battle with StudiVZ in Germany rages on, the company is doing something to build the German Facebook Platform developer community that it hasn’t done in any other country: hold a rich contest to see who can build the biggest Facebook applications. Facebook announced the winners of the Facebook German Application Contest yesterday. The rules [...]
6.4
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Facebook 3Q08 International Growth Report: 17 Countries Now With More Than 1 Million Facebook Users

From Inside Facebook, 3 days ago, 0 comments Comment

Facebook has been growing by leaps and bounds in 2008. In June, Facebook became the largest social network by reach at 132 million uniques, a 35% jump from the end of 2007, according to comScore. Inside Facebook has been gathering per-country data periodically from Facebook’s advertising tools over the last year. Since our last report on [...]

Wednesday October 8th, 2008

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Hi5 Developer Platform Launches OpenSocial 0.8

From Inside Facebook, 3 days ago, 0 comments Comment

For Facebook application developers also building for other social platforms, Hi5 announced today that is has officially launched OpenSocial 0.8 on the Hi5 developer platform. This marks the first major launch of OpenSocial 0.8, which has been in the making for many months. The most interesting part of 0.8 is the addition of a RESTful API, [...]
3.9
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Appssavvy Raises $3.1 Million to Sell Integrated Facebook Application Sponsorships

From Inside Facebook, 3 days ago, 0 comments Comment

Appssavvy, a direct sales team for Facebook and other social media app developers, announced yesterday that it has closed a $3.1 million round of funding led by True Ventures. Jon Callaghan led the investment for True. Scott Kurnit, founder of About.com, also participated in the round. Appssavvy has built its business to date by acting as [...]

Tuesday October 7th, 2008

5.2
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Facebook Temporarily Rolls Out, Turns Off Live Search Integration

From Inside Facebook, 4 days ago, 0 comments Comment

Facebook temporarily launched Microsoft Live Search integration on the public site today, showing off how users will be able to access Live Search within Facebook. However, the push appears to have only been temporary (and perhaps accidental) - Live Search integration has since been pulled down from the site after only a few minutes. A company [...]
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Facebook Registers 40,000 Voters, Applications Engaging 100,000’s More

From Inside Facebook, 4 days ago, 0 comments Comment

With the US presidential elections now only four weeks away, candidates are stepping up the usual mudslinging soundbites for replay on the evening news. While that type of back and forth has traditionally alienated many voters, Facebook is doing its best to encourage civic participation by launching a voter registration campaign and enabling candidates to [...]
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Facebook Encouraging More Users to Translate as International Growth Increases

From Inside Facebook, 4 days ago, 0 comments Comment

As a sign of Facebook’s growing international reach, the Facebook crowd-sourced translation tool released earlier this year is now being pushed to an increasing number of users as they log into Facebook. Many people logging in will see the one-time message like this one below: The tool allows users to translate Facebook and many Facebook applications [...]
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The Facebook Migration Is Now Complete

From Inside Facebook, 5 days ago, 0 comments Comment

For users and app developers, the migration from the old to the new Facebook is now complete. The “www.new.facebook.com” domain is a thing of the past, though not without a hiccup - Facebook temporarily disabled apps.new.facebook.com a few times this weekend without notifying developers ahead of time, causing many app developers to experience drops in traffic. [...]
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London Facebook Developer Garage Coming Wednesday 9th October

From Inside Facebook, 5 days ago, 0 comments Comment

The London Facebook Developer Garage is coming up on Wednesday 8th October at Sun Microsystems, 45 King William Street, London. Sun are generously sponsoring the event again and are also providing free beer and pizza. As well as the usual networking opportunities there’s a busy line-up of speakers: Phil Clandillon and Steve Milbourne from Sony BMG talk [...]

Monday October 6th, 2008

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Yes, Facebook is Open Source, Too!

From Inside Facebook, 5 days ago, 0 comments Comment

When people think Open Source and social networking, usually the first thing that comes to mind is Google and OpenSocial. What most don’t know however is that Facebook is almost as much, if not more Open Source focused as Google is. One unknown fact about the Facebook Platform is that most of the technologies used [...]
3.0
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Facebook Working With App Developers to Weed Out Fake Accounts

From Inside Facebook, 6 days ago, 0 comments Comment

A few months ago we wrote that Facebook should give developers access to (and votes on) user reputations: For developers, spammers and trolls can be just as much a problem as they are for Facebook itself. However, most developers lack the resources to implement effective spam detection/user reputation systems. Rather than leaving every app developer to [...]

Sunday October 5th, 2008

1.0
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This Week Inside Social Games for October 5, 2008

From Inside Facebook, 6 days ago, 0 comments Comment

For those interested in a primer on the state of the social gaming market, the news this week at Inside Social Games reflects a smattering of trends happening in the space. As platforms and services are becoming social: Microsoft Giving the Xbox 360 a Social Overhaul Challenge Games is a New Developer of Casual Social MMOs We’re seeing new [...]

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