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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Quoted: * 2007 revenue came in at $150 million
* 2008 revenue is expected to be between $300-$350 million
* 2008 capex is expected to be $200 million
* 2008 EBITDA is expected to be about $50 million

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

Quoted: MICROSOFT billionaire Bill Gates has deleted his Facebook account after being hassled by thousands of fans