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“After Facebook released v1.1 of their iPhone application, they promised that a bigger, badder v2.0 was in the works for September. They cut it pretty close, but they’ve kept their word. Just a few hours ago, the second major release of the Facebook application hit the App Store, bearing a whole new user interface and [...]

Dinosaurs did Extinct, So can Yahoo!

Posted by: Siwal on: February 2, 2008

Microsoft and Yahoo! have been struggling ,as we all know, to monetize the real estate of the Internet World, i.e the Page Views. Where Microsoft lost about 250M$ in the online business last quarter, Yahoo also suffered a 23% drop in their net earnings in the same quarter. It’s not that these giants don’t [...]

Facebook earnings and plans revealed

Posted by: hchandola on: February 1, 2008

How much Facebook earned last year? 50 million?, 100 million?
The actual figure is $150 million which Facebook’s 23-year-old CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a company wide open call. Obviously Mr Zuckerberg didn’t think that these details could be leaked.
The Times carried an article on how the leaked figures look like.
Overall, the details are [...]

Chirp: Small Idea,Big names?

Posted by: Siwal on: January 24, 2008

Well nothing great about this start up. Remember those days when all you really did on your computer was to download a few cool screen savers,wallpapers and just made sure you dont fall asleep while browsing through clicks after clicks of junk…..
Chirp just add’s the facebook and flicker feeds into your screensavers and hence gives [...]

More Controversy around Facebook

Posted by: Siwal on: January 24, 2008

Facebook is no stranger to the complaints of privacy activists. First, it was the site’s News Feed feature back in 2006. Most recently, the company’s Beacon service drew widespread criticism. This blog post will outline yet another major privacy issue, in which Facebook recklessly exposes user data.
Facebook launched its widely popular application developer program back [...]

Facebook goes International Finally

Posted by: Siwal on: January 24, 2008

As has been long expected, Facebook has begun to work on making its service available in multiple languages as it expands internationally–and it’s doing so by utilizing the power of its millions of users by enlisting them to volunteer a few minutes. The site has spent the past few weeks asking international users to participate [...]

Noca plans to make online transactions completely free

Posted by: Siwal on: January 23, 2008

If you sell anything online, whether physical goods or services, you’re probably keenly aware of the 2-3% (plus $0.30) lost through transactional fees every time someone makes a purchase with their credit card. This fee rears its ugly head whether you use PayPal, Google Checkout, or Amazon Flexible Payment Service since those companies are largely [...]

Scrabulous debate may rewrite the rules of the game

Posted by: Siwal on: January 18, 2008

as reported on news.com 
“I’ll go on a hunger strike!”
So said one adamant Facebook user in the wake of the news that game manufacturers Hasbro and Mattel were trying to do something about the wildly popular, unquestionably addictive online game known as Scrabulous.
The game, which rose to fame when its creators turned it into an embeddable [...]

Why Facebook will be worth 100 Billion

Posted by: Siwal on: January 16, 2008

Here’s a great post from Lee (Altura ventures, adonomics.com) who runs the Altura fund, the facebook (F8) applications focussed fund. Altura took over appaholic.com(App’s) a facebook analytics website and renamed it to adonomics.com (Ad’s + Apps)
Introduction

The Altura Ventures’ Genesis Story — I was not present on May 24th at the launch of the F8 [...]

Here’s Josh(business2.0 founder) writing on what seems to be a tough situation for the two Indian entrepreneurs who launched their facebook app (Scrabulous) last year and are now sitting on a web property that gets 70 Mill page views a month
Hasbro, the owner of the game scrabble, is gunning to bring down the facebook app [...]