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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has a great piece on Facebook hiring away Sheryl Sandberg from Google to run Facebook.
Fake Steve explains that Facebook is an investor shell game:

You have to remember what Facebook’s core business is about. It’s not about helping people stay in touch with friends or express themselves. It’s not about [...]

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Two important deals being announced in Massachusetts today.
Web analytics firm Compete was acquired, and Mzinga has acquired Prospero. Prospero’s community platform powers some of the largest social nets around. The combined company will become a market leader in the enterprise community space, with 1 billion pages served per month across 14,000 communities.
TechCrunch says via Jeremiah [...]

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Have you seen the new Facebook Cablight application?

Cablight is a way to play matchmaker for your friends. You don’t have to be single to join Cablight. You can set up your friends privately so they don’t have to “friend” each other. If you are single and you have seen a friend of a friend that [...]

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Boston is getting a lot of snow today, tonight the snow shoes come out!
I’m sorry to say that Consumating is joining the TechCrunch Deadpool on March 15. I talked with founder Ben Brown many times when they were starting up and during the transition after CNET bought them in 2006. I loved the concept, turns [...]

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I finally got around to installing Match.com’s Little black Book Facebook application. I thought it was going to be a welcome respite after doing 7 interviews in a row today.
The opening screen wasn’t very inviting (see blank screenshot), and on the next page, when I invited a bunch of people to the application, I [...]

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MySpace kicked off its developer program by providing API’s and development tools to tens of thousands of developers, with some unique diistinctions, and restrictions, that it hopes will result in high quality apps.
Tom Foremski at ZDNet thinks the submission process for Myspace applications is going to be a huge bottleneck.

All applications have to be vetted [...]

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Many people have written to ask about Google’s OpenSocial initiative, so I thought I would put a few resources together to get people started thinking about how dating and OpenSocial can work together to improve the online dating experience.
OpenSocial defined:

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript [...]

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Mark your calendar’s, Wednesday, June 30 is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Make sure to read the list the many ways in which MySpace had failed the guy who is organizing the day. I share is frustration with almost all his issues, although I have to keep my profile up for work stuff, unfortunately.
Via [...]

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SNAP Interactive (formerly eTwine Holdings), reported $388,000 in revenue for their fourth quarter, which was up from $35,383 in the third. They attribute the growth to their applications: “Are You Interested� finished December with 5.2 million users, while “Meet New People� claims 350,000. Thus, it can be determined that each user was worth about 7 [...]

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