Tag: facebook

  • Intern caught in fairy outfit!

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    Spotted this story yesterday on Valleywag – long story->short, guy working as an intern for a US branch of Anglo-Irish Bank, took a couple of day’s leave saying he had to head to New York home suddenly. I just wanted to let you know that I will not be able to come into work tomorrow.…

  • Popfly mashups

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    After Steve Clayton demoed it to me last week, I decided to try playing around with Microsoft’s Popfly. Popfly is a tool for creating Mashups in Silverlight, with a drag and drop interface. It comes with a tutorial (on right) and the interface is easy to get used to. In fact it is even easier…

  • Is Facebook's Search function useless?

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    I met the CEO of Telligent Systems, Rob Howard in Barcelona. Telligent are the company who make Community Server amongst other things. Rob and I had a great chat and decided to hook up on Facebook. It turned out to be a lot easier to meet in person then in Facebook! I typed Rob Howard…

  • OpenSocial signs up MySpace and SixApart too!

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    I mentioned earlier in the week that Google was about to launch OpenSocial, a Social Network API platform. Since then Mike Arrington in TechCrunch is reporting that not only is it happenning but MySpace, Bebo and SixApart are on board too! The OpenSocial site is now live and confirmed participants so far are: Engage.com, Friendster,…

  • Free son to a good home

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    Via the FaceBook Observer comes this gem: Free to any kind of home. Lazy, slob, unmotivated, comes with no future plans, does not do chores, parties all night, sleeps all day, curses in his sleep, eats constantly, does not clean up after himself, very expensive, mouthy, knows everything, works sometimes. Added bonus – own car,…

  • Microsoft buys 1.6% of FaceBook for $240m

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    The New York Times is reporting this morning that Microsoft has bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240m, this values the company at $15bn. This values Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 23 year old founder at $3bn and Accel Partners, the venture capital firm that invested $12.7 million in May 2005 now owns 11 percent of…

  • Are Microsoft trying to sucker the competition?

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    The Wall Street Journal has a piece today claiming that Microsoft are thinking of investing in FaceBook. TechMeme is buzzing with the news. According to the WSJ article Microsoft could purchase a stake of up to 5% in the closely held startup, at a cost in the range of $300 million to $500 million This…

  • Should employers be blocking access to Facebook?

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    I was speaking to journalist Dermot Corrigan the other morning about Facebook. He was writing an article for yesterday’s Sunday Business Post on how companies have started blocking access to Facebook for their employees. This is presumably on the back of articles like the one in the Telegraph recently which claimed that: More than two…