Facebook Chat: Jabber/XMPP Support On The Way
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | 97 ViewsRight now we’re building a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat. In the near future, users will be able to use Jabber/XMPP-based chat applications to connect to Facebook Chat to:
* Communicate with their friends
* See which of their friends are online and view their profile pictures
* Set their statuses
-David Reiss, Facebook Engineer
Facebook announced that their [...]
Google, The Third Company To Connect Data Portability This Week. Who’s Going To Be Connect Four?
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | 216 Views“Social is in the air.”
-David Glazer, Director of Engineering, Google
Facebook and MySpace announced this past week that they are making profile data portable if a user chooses to. MySpace is calling this feature Data Portability and Facebook is calling it Facebook Connect. And now Google is launching the same feature, but calling it Friend [...]
Facebook Raises A $100 Million Equity-Free Loan For Server Power From TriplePoint Capital
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Sunday, May 11th, 2008 | 164 Views“It will be used entirely for servers.”
-Facebook Chief Financial Officer Gideon Yu (former CFO of YouTube and Yahoo! Treasurer)
In the last 7 months, Facebook has raised about $460 million. One hundred million of that amount was raised in the last couple of days for the company to scale their user-base by procuring additional [...]
Facebook Would Rather Build Their Own Data Portability Feature (Facebook Connect) Than Join MySpace Data Availability
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | 244 Views“Today we are announcing Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect is the next iteration of Facebook Platform that allows users to ‘connect’ their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any site,” stated Dave Morin, Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager. “This will now enable third party websites to implement and offer even more features of Facebook Platform off [...]
Facebook Banning Sex Offenders
1 COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | 182 ViewsThe first blog post I wrote on Pulse 2.0 was on September 16, 2006 and it was titled, Facebook Opening for Everyone. This article had to do with Facebook opening their user base to anyone with an e-mail account and not just exclusively for university students. An influx of pedophiles and sex offenders took [...]
MySpace To Make Profile Data Portable
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | 150 Views“The walls around the garden are coming down.”
-MySpace CEO, Chris DeWolfe
MySpace has just allowed their user data to become more portable. While MySpace is the dominant social network, Facebook has been taking away a lot of it’s market-share. MySpace data will soon be able to be exported to Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and [...]
Marc Andreessen Possibly to Join Facebook Board of Directors
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 | 269 ViewsFacebook is a student that values the teachings of web veterans whether it is by allowing investments from Microsoft, hiring open-source experts slash Firefox founders, poaching executives from Google, or getting advice from the founder of the original web browser. Given Facebook is a young company and has grown exponentially in terms [...]
Xiaonei, A Chinese Replica Of Facebook Raises $430 Million ($72 Million More Than The Original Facebook)
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | 259 ViewsXiaonei is a social network that is pretty much an exact replica of Facebook, but is based in China. Interestingly, Xiaonei has raised much more money than Facebook. Facebook’s total investment to date is about $378 million from investors such as Peter Thiel, Li Ka-Shing, Microsoft Corporation, Accel Partners, etc. Xiaonei now has $430 [...]
iGoogle Has The Symptoms Of A Social Network
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Monday, April 21st, 2008 | 312 ViewsThere is a lot of hype in the Web 2.0 community revolving around setting up an ideal homepage. Within the last decade, a simple search engine was common to have as a browser starting point. But today’s web users want widgets quickly telling them what their stock values are, how much money [...]
