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Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi

Monday, June 09, 2008

RockYou! raises $35 million

Following Slide, RockYou! has raised an impressive $35 million in Series C funding led by DCM venture capital firm. RockYou! is now claiming that their reach is bigger than Slide.

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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Facebook apps distribution

Flowing Data has published a chart that shows breakdown of Facebook Applications. Facebook apps

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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Facebook's annoying just for fun apps

Dallas News' Tech Blog noticed that "Just for fun" applications dominate overall percentage of apps and points the obvious: "The sad truth is that the collective intelligence of thousands of programmers has done nothing but devise new ways for people with too much time to annoy their acquaintances with pointless 'games.'"

Source: Sad truth about Facebook applications.

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