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Sitemaps and Facebook

Mar 27 2008
Smart move – I’ve been wondering when this would happen.  You can now SEO your Facebook applications with Sitemaps.  If you are a Facebook app developer, it’s well worth your time to figure this out.  I view this as a deliberate, healthy, and intelligent cracks opening in the walled garden.
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Facebook Developer Garage in Boulder

Mar 19 2008
Are you a Facebook developer?  Do you live in Denver or Boulder?  Do you like food? On Thursday March 27th, from 6pm to 9pm, there is a Facebook Developer Garage meeting.  It’s happening at the TechStars office (also fondly known as "The Bunker") is Boulder.  Sign up via the Facebook Developers Boulder Denver site (recursive, […]
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Facebook Apps for Business

Nov 15 2007
CIO Magazine, that paragon of business wisdom, has a a list of five Five Favorite Facebook Widgets for Business Users.  My TechStars friends J-Squared weigh in on the list with Sticky Notes.   Entertaining.
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The J-Squared Facebook Someday Millionaires

Oct 10 2007
BusinessWeek has a fun article about my buddies Jesse and Joe from J-Squared Media titled Who wants to be a Facebook millionaire?  Jesse and Joe were founders of one of the TechStars teams this summer – when they showed up their original idea was to create a sharing tools that would distribute links to your […]
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Development Tools for the Facebook Platform

Sep 27 2007
Brilliant moves by Widgetbox and Dapper (I’m not an investor in either company.)  Both of them have released “development tools for building Facebook apps.”  Widgetbox’s App Accelerator helps you turn Widgetbox widgets into Facebook apps.  Dapper’s AppMaker helps you turn “Dapps” (Dapper Apps) into Facebook apps.  Look for a lot more tools like this, but these first […]
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Fascinated with Facebook

Aug 05 2007
Are you fascinated with Facebook?  If so, it’s worth following the blog of the J-Squared guys.  They are now actively blogging their Facebook lessons with posts including: Facebook, Rails and Scaling What Facebook Users Want How People Use Facebook Facebook Users Worth $0.30? Hm. More Please. J-Squared is one of the TechStars teams.  Their first Facebook app – Sticky […]
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Facebook Email Sucks

Jul 26 2007
I’m an email junkie going back as far as I can remember.  It’s by far my favorite way to communicate.  I’m utterly and completely baffled that Facebook email (ok – “Inbox”) is so poor.  No forward a message.   Can’t add people to a thread.  No way to sort or manage the messages.  And now Facebook […]
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The Facebook Problem

Jun 22 2007
I’ve had an account on Facebook for a while. Until a month ago – around the time of the F8 Platform launch – I checked it once a month. In the last 30 days, I’ve been checking it once a day.  My friends list has exploded, I’ve added a bunch of apps (just to play […]
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Facebook Groups

Jun 16 2007
Unless you’ve been on vacation and off the grid for the last two months, you’ve probably noticed the explosive growth with Facebook with a new and exciting demographic – all the web / tech nerds that previously weren’t using Facebook.  I went to my Facebook account this morning to try to figure out when I […]
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