Category Archives: Facebook

The talk around the water cooler last week was all about Microsoft trying to snag a 5% stake in Facebook for $500 Million, which would in effect put Facebook’s valuation somewhere around $10 billion. Lots of rumors began swirling around … Continue reading →

Last week at the TechCrunch40 conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced the new fbFund, a $10M financing fund aimed at supporting the Facebook ecosystem.  The fund, backed by Accel and Founders Funds, will seed Facebook application development companies with grants between $25k … Continue reading →

Over the weekend I won an auction for a facebook app for sale on AppMRKT (a site run by Ben Bleikamp and Johnathan Otto). The app is called Mixology101, it was originally built by Steve Vorholt of Ohio State University, … Continue reading →

Continuing in my Facebook series, I figured I would outline what I see as the different classes of applications available on Facebook. Of the 3500+ apps you can find now on Facebook there are 2 key types out there: throwaway, … Continue reading →

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 3 months, you are likely to have heard about Facebook’s new platform code named f8. On May 24, 2007 Facebook opened up its gates to developers worldwide. Since that day … Continue reading →