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Microsoft and Facebook

fr3dr1k — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:27:34 +0000

Microsoft own a share of Facebook, and whats interesting to note is that there is a Facebook Developer Toolkit available for the Express editions of C#, VB and Web Developer. Facebook is a truly open platform and framework. Is Facebook dead? Or will it continue growing? Who knows.

Facebook Facelift

fr3dr1k — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:43:09 +0000

Facebook has a newish look and feel, feels like things are a bit more spaced out.

Ideas for Facebook applications

fr3dr1k — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:09:08 +0000

Social media is the new craze and one of the most popular platforms is Facebook. Facebook allows its users to develop applications which other users can add and use. So today I thought about a list of applications that I might use on Facebook.

Applications for Facebook can generally be grouped in two areas, business and entertainment. My focus is towards business. I can think of two ways of using Facebook so far:

Advertise your product(s): Use Facebook to advertise your products and allow people to browse through your products.
Advertise your service(s): Here I was thinking that maybe I allow developers and graphic designers to list themselves and find out about freelance work.
An application for Facebook questions: An application that allows you to post questions directly from your website to Facebook questions.

Publicly searching Facebook

fr3dr1k — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:30:08 +0000

As you all know by know Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. Just do a search on the number of pages that link to Facebook by typing link:www.facebook.com in Google. My results show that around 194,000 pages link to Facebook. Its difficult to say whether the amount of pages that link to Facebook is a way to gauge the amount of attention it gets, but its interesting nonetheless. Facebook has a pagerank of 9/10 in my Google toolbar, which indicates how importantly Google thinks of Facebook. Another interesting fact is that you can search for people on Facebook by using Google. So for instance if you use my name and type Fredrik Erasmus site:www.facebook.com in Google then you will see 4 results. Now I wonder if those 4 results mean that those 4 people that have me as a friend have not made their profiles private. If for instance you type ASP.NET site:www.facebook.com then I get around 498 results and the majority seem to point to job opportunities. If I alter my search to ASP.NET South Africa site:www.facebook.com then I get 15 results, the majority of which are listed in the Marketplace application of Facebook, which generally means that a job/vacancy is being advertised.