Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Facebook already netted something like $83.7 million in the first quarter of this year as its 30 percent cut of virtual goods sold by Zynga, and brings in tens of millions of dollars per year in additional revenue from Zynga advertising its games on the Facebook platform.
Gorgeous mash up of plotting Flickr images (in red) and Twitter updates (in blue) with their geo-location to build up vistas of the world in See Something or Say Something. Here’s the London image, and the geography of the Capital is clear to see.
Like vs. Plus. I approve!
Facebook has the problem faced by many start-ups, which is when to deal with the "we’re too big for MySQL" issue. Or how to deal with it and not cause major headaches. Essentially they’re going through something almost every OS platform has to deal with – when to do the low level compatibility break, and how many legacy emulation layers do you provide. Answers on a status update, please.
Louis Gray: Zuckerberg said that number, growing exponentially, ahead of user growth, is now at 4 billion unique items per day… [averaging] a nice 5 or so shares per registered user per day
To be honest I’m more excited about group chat on Facebook, rather than the addition of video calling via Skype. While I’ll use Skype’s calling feature maybe twice a week, I use video about once a month. On the other hand, group IM/Chat on Skype is used every single day.
