radar.oreilly.com - 5/14/2009
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In a few weeks, the Facebook application platform will mark its second anniversary. While it garnered lots of press coverage in the months after it launched, the arrival of the iTunes app store shifted attention away from Facebook's vibrant ecosystem. The media glow is understandable: among ...
venturebeat.com - 5/16/2009
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venturebeat.com —
Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in
capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to...
buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees. Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.’s employees have now toiled at the company for more ...
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Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees
allfacebook.com - 5/15/2009
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allfacebook.com —
Want to call your Facebook friends via video
chat? Soon enough you’ll be able to. Earlier today...
one of our readers sent us a link to one of Facebook’s cached JavaScript files which reveals a number of clues as to a soon to be released ...
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Facebook Prepares To Launch Live Video Chat Product
insidefacebook.com - 5/14/2009
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insidefacebook.com —
Over the last couple of days, rumors have
been swirling about a possible Facebook Platform payments system...
launching over the course of the next few weeks. Tonight, we have confirmation from Facebook that while it isn’t planning on launching a ...
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Confirmed: Facebook to Launch Virtual Currency Test in ...
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The developer population is shrinking...yet applications abound
The Open Road —
In a new study, Evans Data claims that the developer population in established economies will decline by 35 percent, as InformationWeek reports. Despite this dearth of developers, however, we continue to see an explosion of open-source projects and social-Web applications.
What gives?
It's very possible, of course, that a dwindling number of developers is pushing more of its development work to the public eye of the Web, creating the appearance of more development activity even as the total number of lines of code written declines. Rising ...
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