Category Archives: Facebook

Is Facebook sacrificing virality for credit’s sake?

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Brian Breslin

If you’ve been paying attention to the facebook platform like I have for the last few years, you’ll notice an overarching theme emerging. Quite brilliant one if I might add. Facebook has managed to build up this enormous eco-system around … Continue reading →

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Whats in a name? Facebook Landrush Follies

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Brian Breslin

Last friday night A week ago friday, at midnight hundreds of thousands of you around the world rushed to grab the vanity url (http://facebook.com/username) of your dreams. Within minutes millions of names had been snatched up, leaving many frustrated that … Continue reading →

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Facebook Platform – A year later

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Brian Breslin

A year or so ago, Facebook unveiled something that has radically changed the landscape of the web and social networking sites in particular. As the first major and tightly integrated social network application platform (SNAP) to hit the market, Facebook … Continue reading →

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Why I am happy Robert Scoble’s Facebook account was pulled

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Brian Breslin

So word bouncing around the echo chamber this morning is that Robert Scoble‘s Facebook account was yanked last night because he was using a bot to do something with his facebook account. This bot he had developed and used is … Continue reading →

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Facebook opening up canvas to search – what this means

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Brian Breslin

Facebook posted late last night that they were opening up their canvas pages to search robots in an effort to make facebook more accessible to the masses who still do not have facebook accounts. This is a significant move on … Continue reading →

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What the Microsoft investment in Facebook means to you.

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Brian Breslin

So hopefully you’ve caught wind of the $240,000,000 that Microsoft invested in Facebook today, if not you can read about it everywhere else. So aside from the mind blowing $15 Billion valuation, what does this mean to you and me? … Continue reading →

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Ironcoder contest – Vocabulario

Posted on October 6, 2007 by Brian Breslin

The infinimedia team is here in Sunnyvale, California attending the CommunityNext: Platform conference, and we decided to participate in the Iron Coder competition.  The premise is who can build an app in 24 hours and garner the most users. However … Continue reading →

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AT&T and its cheap entry into facebook

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Brian Breslin

AT&T has a new developer challenge for facebook in which it will pay $5,000 to the best integration of their own API (had no idea that existed) and Facebook’s platform. The contest requires you to integrate at least one core … Continue reading →

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