A lot of people have cried out over Facebook’s $15 billion valuation. However, there are certain points that support such a ridiculously high value. Investor Paul Buchheit has written an interesting article about how Facebook has the benefit of knowing about your entire real-life social network, clouded only by a few random online friends here and there, and how they could leverage it.
Posts Tagged ‘apps’
Social Apps – Usage Discipline?
Monday, March 31st, 2008We developers love it when people use our applications on social networks, but sometimes it can go a little too far, one of my friend’s profile looks something like this:
Google Apps gets upgraded Gmail
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Regular Gmail uses got the upgraded Gmail ages ago, but Google Apps users were made to wait for ages. I was checking my mail this morning, and I see this:
Looks like its finally here!
Facebook IM in two weeks.
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008InsideFacebook points out that chat for Facebook is coming out in two weeks from now.
Peter Deng, Product Manager, Facebook Chat
- Facebook chat launching in the coming weeks. We’re opening up a new communication channel and enable real time conversation on the site.
- Chat UI at the bottom of the browser – present whenever you’re on the site. Shows open chat windows, number of friends online.
- Can pop out entire chat interface into a separate window. It shows online friend lists and current conversations.
- If don’t want to be bothered by chats, you can toggle your online/offline status easily.
- Considering whether or not we will support Jabber. We’re starting with on-site messaging.
- You can clear your own chat history if you like.
- Your “online” status icons when you appear throughout the site.
When Facebook first talked about a chat platform, I had hoped for something similar to Meebo, which would integrate with existing chat protocols, but it looks like Facebook is going their own way, which would have been the rational prediction in the first place.