Monthly Archives: September 2007

Facebook to give away money to app dvelopers: FBFund

Breaking on new Twitter right now at the TechCrunch40 conference: Jason Calacanis reports that Facebook will be funding applications developers. Frank Gruber says between $25,000 to $250,000 for any given project, and the total fund about reserved is …

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Educators and Employers vs. Social Networking Web Apps: and Opportunity to Improve both?

There is a lot of complaining lately that sites like MySpace and Facebook are eating into companies’ productivity and student’s attention. I think this is an indication that both work and school need to be more engaging the …

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Countering Microsoft’s FUD Mongering of Software as a Service

Read-Write Web via Mary Jo Foley at ZD Net reports that Microsoft is randomly spamming its customers to spread FUD about web apps/software as a service.
1. Google touts having enterprise level customers but how many “USERS” of their applications …

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