Archive for the ‘facebook’ Category

Match puts on a new face

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Two new features from Match.com are aimed at getting new users to sign up for the service. One is targeted at the shy crowd, and one is targeted at the outgoing crowd–Facebook. The Little Black Book feature lets Match.com users find other Facebook members that also have an account on Match.com. ...

OkCupid Puts on a New Facebook

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

OkCupid.com, a free online dating site, has announced the launch of its quiz application for Facebook. Once completed, the OkCupid Dating Quiz gives you your personality type and allows you to add it to your Facebook profile. Next week, the application will expand to allow users to take any of ...

Yahbebo?

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Rumors about social networking site Bebo being for sale come up every few months. First it was British Telecom for $550 million in July 2006 (we started that one), then the Financial Times reported they were in talks with Viacom a month later. Recent Comscore traffic data for Bebo, MySpace and ...

Facebook and Myspace profit from Virginia Tech tragedy

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

I'm ok at VT" on the Internet social network Facebook has become an online bulletin board for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University students to post their whereabouts and condition after the campus shooting that killed 32 people. Some 236 groups related to Virginia Tech have been set up on ...

Facebook releases “Thrift” for free

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

  It may be an April 1st release, but this is no joke. We're giving away Thrift, a core part of our software infrastructure, as open source. If you follow this blog, then you probably already know about our use of the LAMP software stack and participation in other open source ...