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Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network!

mohit — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:06:16 GMT

Microsoft has added newsfeeds, social graphs, etc. to Live.

Quoted: Microsoft's Live.com portal will change significantly this evening. No longer will it be a simple search engine with a few other services bolted ...

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FamilyRoutes - A 3exY Product

Ant — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:38:50 GMT

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Suffering From Facebook Fatigue? - TIME

mohit — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:13:33 GMT

Quoted: App creators insist that people actually enjoy the invitations. "It is something very positive," says Vikas Gupta, an Amazon.com alum who created both the popular Send Good Karma and Hug Me apps, and runs his start-up Jambool out of a spare bedroom in San Francisco's South of Market district. "It is a positive action that people like sending to their friends."

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Mixx: One Year In, Someone's Dropping the Ball - ReadWriteWeb

mohit — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:13:19 GMT

Quoted: Fewer than 1 million people visited Mixx last month, less than 5% of the traffic that competitor Digg saw. Given the circumstances, Mixx's glaring lack of success to date calls a number of things about this industry into question.

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Facebook | Twitter IM outage brings TwitterSync down

mohit — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:51:35 GMT

This explains why TwitterSync has not been working the past week.

Quoted: That's the difference. The Twitter app uses the Twitter API while TwitterSync uses IM - if IM is working, TwitterSync is faster and can update more often.

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Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: Facebook viral marketing: When and why do apps "jump the shark?"

mohit — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:21:22 GMT

Quoted: That's what happens when you "jump the shark" and your app goes from successful to completely not successful. Why does this happens? This blog post is to dissect that exact issue.

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Facebook Developers | News Feed Improvements

mohit — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:39:56 GMT

Blog post from Facebook confirming the new News Feed behavior.

Quoted: As part of our ongoing improvements to News Feed, we recently made it possible for users to see stories from applications they have not added.
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Use feed.publishTemplatizedAction and register your story templates with us. Only stories with registered templates will be visible to users who have not added your application. (Note: We recommend using feed.publishTemplatizedAction even if you are not registering the template because feed.publishActionOfUser will eventually be deprecated.)

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Campaign tools | A-twitter | Economist.com

mohit — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:50:29 GMT

Quoted: A hip version of cablese jazzes up campaign coverage

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How to Successfully Publish Widespread News Feed Stories : Facebook Developer

mohit — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:04:24 GMT

Quoted: As a developer, your goal is to produce templatized feeds that are highly aggregative. Avoid template variables that are very specific or unique to any given user; those pieces of information should instead appear within the body_general parameter.

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Bebo: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened” Says Source

mohit — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:46:38 GMT

Quoted: The buyer is unclear, although we are still betting on Google given that Bebo fits well with Orkut (very, very small user overlap).

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