by Jon Clark on February 26, 2010
Facebook has acquired its third company, Octazen Solutions - a Malaysian startup. According to GigaOm, Facebook says this is largely a talent acquisition. The Octazen homepage has a slightly different story, saying Facebook acquired “most of the company’s assets and to employ those assets in a different direction.”
So what exactly is Octazen? One senior engineer at a competing [...]
by Jon Clark on February 24, 2010
Over the last year or so, Facebook has been gradually ramping up its Credits system, which for a long time was used just to purchase virtual gifts (now you can use it to buy real gifts, songs, and it’s been integrated with some applications). Today news was announced that will make it even easier to [...]
by Jon Clark on February 22, 2010
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been going a little insane with all of the Google Buzz noise in my Gmail inbox. I don’t think I’ve gotten it below 100 new messages in quite some time. Well, now I have an opportunity for you to add in even more of that ’social noise’ to your inbox [...]
by tstample on February 5, 2010
Facebook turned 6 years old today and simultaneously hit the 400 million users mark. Just two months ago, they surpassed 350 million users and have shown astonishing growth as website users are becoming more social.