Facebook has announced it’s new funding arm of fbFund. Through this fund Facebook will distribute 10 million dollars to developers of useful apps. There are a couple different ways these funds will go out but I will describe the 2 Million they are giving out in a competition. A quick run down of how this [...]
Update: My history of SocialMedia.com contained some factual errors, and I was called on it and corrected. I am taking out the part I was wrong about and will add the corrections I received to the end of this post. SocialMedia.com had a session at Google I/O, a developer conference. Think about that. SocialMedia.com have an extraordinary [...]
I will be leaving the trail to attend a few things in the next three weeks. I hope to see you there, and also this will be the window of opportunity to get some face time with me if I am working on your projects. Contact me asap to arrage meetings, here is where I [...]
Ivan Pope, the founder of Sniperoo is presenting the WidgetWebExpo in New York on June 16th and 17th. This conference is his American version of the Widgety Goodness conference that he ran in the UK. Except this is bigger. Way bigger. I will be participating with this conference in a few ways, and can’t give [...]
Just as a note of warning, the reported Facebook usage numbers are temporarily very, very wrong. The numbers that are being reported by Facebook are incorrect and have been for several days. This is not a time to buy a Facebook app if you are basing your price on reported usage. Adonomics has frozen their [...]
Facebook to begin taking steps to “unclutter” user profiles soon. User complaints of difficulty finding basic information on profile pages cluttered with apps will lead to Facebook providing two versions of a profile page. A “quick version” and an “extended version”. From the announcement… “we will soon be launching a “profile clean-up” tool. Similar to [...]
While learning how to make and edit Google gadgets, I have created hundreds of random gadgets. Many of these gadgets have nothing to with me, my brand, or my interests. I am simply playing and learning. I often will look for a developer’s page on any website I am on to see if anything interests [...]
I did a little experimentation and you know what? Unaltered Google gadgets work on all Open Social platforms. And some big news… Facebook now supports Open Social (more on this below, including screen shot) But no matter who supports Open Social, they also do something else… They support Google gadgets. Any Google gadget (pretty much) [...]
Free scalable hosting for Facebook developers. Sweet. Facebook announced that Joyent (partnered with Dell) will provide one free year of hosting to Facebook Application developers via Joyent. This is a dream come true.
