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Facebook Paid Game Developers $1.4 Billion In 2011
Facebook has paid developers over $1.4 billion in 2011. Facebook games product manager Matt Wyndowe made the milestone announcement at the Game Developers Conference. Wyndowe said that Facebook has gotten very serious about supporting games on Facebook despite the market being
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Categories Bret Taylor, Facebook, Jens Begemann, Kixeye, Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Wyndowe, Will Harbin, Wooga
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Facebook Adds Application Permission Clarifications Pop-Up
One of the biggest problems with Facebook’s applications is that many people that used them did not know how much data they are allowing to be exploited. As a result Facebook decided to make privacy options simpler and they announced this week that there is now a new pop-up that will show just how much data you are allowing an application to use. The screenshot above is what the pop-up looks like when you are adding the JibJab application.
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Facebook Announces Agreement To Acquire FriendFeed
Facebook has announced today that they will be acquiring FriendFeed. This is not a shocker because Facebook previously made an attempt to buy out Twitter for $100 million in cash and the $400 million in stock. Over the last year, Facebook has rolled several FriendFeed-like features into the social network. One of the features they took from FriendFeed was the concept of “Like.”
One of FriendFeed’s popular features is that the more comments a story receives on the news feed, the more it floats up to the top. This concept is similar to the Reddit and Digg homepage. FriendFeed’s voting system is real-time, but Facebook’s news feed popular stories constantly has to be refreshed.
As part of the acquisition, FriendFeed’s team will be joining Facebook. This includes Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh. Buchheit was responsible for early stage development of GMail over at Google.
Facebook sent out a press release regarding the acquisition. Check it out after the jump:
Categories Bret Taylor, Facebook, FriendFeed, Jim Norris, Mark Zuckerberg, Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh
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