Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Let's say Facebook is able to raise capital on a pre-money valuation of $15B. We'll also assume that they have 39M users. Not including the value of their IP or employees, Facebook is worth approximately $394 per user. Believe it or not that's not even close to the $710 per ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Proximity is everything. If you're a media technology startup and you're looking for investment, NYC is the place to be.
The same logic holds true for social platform applications. From a technical standpoint, the anatomy of a Facebook platform request is:
User makes a web request to Facebook
Facebook inspects the request and ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Developers are the key to victory in the upcoming Social Platform Wars. The 15 billion dollar question is how do you attract developers to your platform? Facebook and their VC partners announced a $10M fund and claim that over 80,000 developers have registered so far. This is an impressive number ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
While developing Smart Links we spent a lot of time thinking about the security model of Facebook applications. We did this to ensure that our users have a reliable experience. Imagine how a user would feel if they went to view a link they added in the application and it ...
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Smart Links is doing well!
Since we released Smart Links Thursday afternoon we've added over 700 users. We're seeing an overall average of ~8.5 new users per hour. More importantly, if you look at the data for the last 24 hours alone, we're at ~19 new users per hour. We were ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Wouldn't that be nice :-^
Today we officially released Smart Links for Facebook. Smart Links is a free productivity tool for Facebook that enables you organize your friends, groups, applications and external links into folders. What sets Smart Links apart is its JavaScript/Ajax interface. In a nutshell, Smart Links allows ...
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