Breaking: Top Friends! copy may kill Max Levchin

July 2nd, 2008 7 Comments Noah

Max is probably the business person I respect most in the world. I just saw that a copy of Top Friends was released and in a short amount of time has 600,000 users at 37% daily activity. Screen shot below:
Lawrence Lee is the creator
vs
Slide’s version
How do you think Slide feels? Is this aggressive business [...]

Grouporation: LinkedIn on Facebook

August 23rd, 2007 4 Comments

Product:
The Resume App on Facebook lets you import your LinkedIn resume and recommendations to your Facebook resume. For the non-LinkedIn crowd, it also lets you upload your resume in Word format and converts it to html.
Problem:
The app only has 1000 users. Network effects make this exponentially more useful with more users. [...]

Breaking: Facebook adds New Revenue Channel: Social Gifts

February 7th, 2007 25 Comments Noah

This is something I knew about when I worked there but it is finally live today, Gifts. I think most people will see this as something to buy for Valentine’s day and for supporting breast cancer but the real question is will this be a significant revenue model for Facebook.

Will college students care to [...]

Congratulations Connected Ventures

August 15th, 2006 11 Comments Noah

This is huge news. The guys from Connected Ventures have sold a majority stake in their company to Barry Diller’s Interactive Corporate.

These guys are the creators of:
College Humor: funny content

Busted Tees: funny t-shirts
Vimeo: community video sharing
Nice work Zach and Jacob.
My thoughts on the deal:

I wonder how the guys will change working for someone else [...]

New Facebook Feature: Browse, Advanced Search + Classmates search

May 30th, 2006 5 Comments noah

This came out last week but I am still on vacation with my family in Aruba, so while I purchased internet for 1 day I thought I would share. A few months ago we came out with a new search that did everything for everyone. Unfortunately it needed to do a little more and we [...]

New Facebook Feature: Photo Flyers

May 19th, 2006 6 Comments noah

I know you want me to write about how rich Michael Arrington is or what start up will go down in flames but I wanted to highlight a project I got to work on. We just launched Photo Flyers on Facebook so you can now choose themes and photos when you purchase a Flyer.

New features [...]