Archive for: Facebook
Working at Facebook: My First Day
I get asked about this a lot so I thought I’d share a story. When I walked into the first floor on University avenue I wasn’t sure if I was in a frat or a startup. There were cables falling from the ceilings, people running around and I was told to sit on a corner [...]
Breaking: Top Friends! copy may kill Max Levchin
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 [...]
Grouporation: LinkedIn on Facebook
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. However, [...]
Breaking: Facebook adds New Revenue Channel: Social Gifts
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
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 [...]
New Facebook Feature: Browse, Advanced Search + Classmates search
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 [...]
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