It appears that despite denying the very existence of such a thing, Valleywag has received a copy of the elusive Facebook advertising rate card (via Valleywag). Dated from February, the document includes pricing for advertising on the home page, groups and various CTR and CPM data.
Softwaredeveloper.com has put together a thorough feature story on developing hit Facebook applications. Looks very thorough.
Off for a rainy wakeboarding weekend in NH. I will leave you with a great post by Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners about ad networks and targeted content sites.
Going.com, an event-driven social networking site (I can’t stand the term hyperlocal), has raised $5 million in funding from General Catalyst and Highland Capital.
I wrote about Going, which was previously named Heyletsgo, last fall, when I had a chance to meet with the founding team. Congrats to Roy, Rebecca and the rest of the Going team!
Back from vacation. Relaxed and ready to get back to work.
Bruce Sterling as a geoblogger circa 2017 over at Wired. This is the kind of stuff I like to read when I’m trying to get into the clean air required for entrepreneurial thinking. Via BoingBoing.
Last night I spent an hour shooting photos of downtown Boston from my roofdeck, then I headed over the Coworking loft party, which was celebrating their first 3 months in operation. Drinking beer on a deck and chatting with local entrepreneurs, developers and other web-heads is a nice way to end the week. Can anyone say Facebook applications?
For the next six days I’ll be with family at a lodge in the woods at an undisclosed location. No computer, no blog and limited cell coverage.
The next few weeks are going to be incredibly busy. A trip to the lake in New Hampshire for some water skiing and wakeboarding, then I move my home and office across town next to the Bunker Hill Monument and the weekend after it’s time to head to New Jersey for my 20th high school reunion. Of course I continue to work with existing clients and look forward to starting several new projects in August.
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Have a great week/end.
Wish you could make textboxes larger in Firefox by simply dragging a corner of the box to make it larger? You can.
I’ll get to my review of last night’s WebInno later on tonight.
From TechCrunch:
Facebook has launched a Silicon Valley VC fund Bay Partners has earmarked millions of dollars for investments in startups creating applications for Facebook. The new program, called AppFactory, will be officially launched on Tuesday.
If your app is popular on Facebook you’re going to need the money. Companies offering free apps are getting slammed with bandwidth and hosting, there is a cost to the popularity that comes with a good viral Facebook app.
I was a hard-core Ecto user for a long time, then went to WordPress’s web-based editor, and now this is my first post using Flock. So far I don’t like it.
Flock doesn’t deal well with my custom CSS.
Tags not compatible with Ultimate Tag Warrior?
Can’t add title and id to links.
I’ll try a few more posts then probably go back to the WordPress web interface, or maybe Performancing.
When it comes to collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data, Freebase is front of mind. Today I read about the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network. Is one less evil than the other?
Who will make it easier to add/extract the data?
My man GPC does a scorecard about how he thinks the WebInno 13 presenters are going to do. I prefer to wait until afterwards, because I really have nothing to say about something like (Beacon Street Girls) until after I see the demo.
I did however have a great demo of Webkins over the weekend. I will be hanging out there with my god-daughter to play games and goof off with her from time to time. Webkins is 8,0000% more fun than Myspace and there is a ton of stuff to do. We did a 20 minute demo and got through less than five percent of the features. It’s like cartoony game-driven SecondLife for the under-10 set. First you go to Webkins, then you graduate to Beacon Street Girls or any of the other tween-focused social sites.
See you at WebInno on Monday July 9th.