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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 was able to shift our expectations from what we had previously expected to get from [...]

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 a blatant violation of the FB terms of use, so it was probably only [...]

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 their part, for multiple reasons: 1. it turns on the power of millions and millions [...]

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? Well probably more to me than you, but I digress. Essentially this means two [...]

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 there were some stipulations: 1. it had to be educational, 2. it had to be [...]

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 facebook function (poking, messaging, photos, etc.) with a mobile system.
I can see a number [...]

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 that Google would come in and offer more for that same 5% in order [...]

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 and $250k.  This is a monumental announcement on many levels, on one hand it affects [...]

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, and had around 1300 users when I bought it.
So why did I buy this [...]

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, and immersive. Mind you I don’t mean to put down any app by labeling it [...]