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 […]

It’s all in the Details

May 8th, 2006 9 Comments Noah

I went to this great Vietnamese fusion restaurant for business 2 weeks ago and something occurred to me in the bathroom. It is all about the details. In many restaurants fancy or not there is so much emphasis on the menu, atmosphere, employees and other things.
What about the bathroom? It is something that everyone of […]