Facebook looks cozy with Microsoft, Amazon — a challenge to Google?
During Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote today, senior representatives from Microsoft and Amazon came on stage to demonstrate how they’re integrating their services with Platform. Google was nowhere to be seen. Forget the Facebook-Myspace rivalry — could an anti-Google triumvirate be forming?
Zuckerberg told us he went to Redmond several days ago to talk with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Officer, because the company has experience building “big apps.” The two companies are openly close, with… Continue Reading
Introducing “Causes on Facebook”
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Serial entrepreneur Sean Parker’s new philanthropy focused company, Project Agape, launches tonight, with a special version of its software tailored for Facebook users.
It is called Causes on Facebook.
Just as significant as its launch, however, is its intent to showcase the strengths of Facebook’s new “Platform,” a set of tools to allow developers to build applications upon Facebook. More on that in a second.
Project Agape is the most ambitious social network we’ve seen that lets people… Continue Reading
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Update, 4pm: Significantly, Zuckerberg said Facebook is encouraging developers to build applications to make money, both from advertisements and other transactions. Developers would do this from a “canvas” page given to developers to work on. Zuckerberg stressed two other themes, “deep integration,” and “mass distribution,” examples of which are illustrated in our Agape/Causes on Facebook story posted after this one.
Update, 3pm: Mark Zuckerberg is giving some notable updates:
–Facebook is adding more than 100,000 users a… Continue Reading