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Facebook Platform and the software/media quandary

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

O-Reilly ponders about the Facebook App platform, and shows a chart of application usage, which no surprise is highly concentrated among a few players. It would be nice to see a chart of Windows consumer apps by comparison.  I'd imagine a similar curve, with MSFT, Adobe, Quicken, Yahoo, AOL, Google, couple ...

Prediction - Facebook IM will launch and dominate

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I'm surprised no one is talking about a potential IM app from Facebook.  I'd bet a lot of money they'll launch one soon - and it's going to crush.  The buddy list is already in place. The idea of a buddy grid that lets you access your friends' web services via ...

Facebook acquires pre-launch Parakey

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Facebook has made its first acquisition - Parakey. And yes, you've probably never heard of Parakey, because it pretty much never launched. Parakey was led by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, the dynamic duo behind the Firefox browser. The start-up was funded in 2006 by Sequoia, and has been ...