How to get funding for your Facebook idea
96484
Blog: Bay Partners is launching a special program for Facebook entrepreneurs.
628142
(InfoWorld) - Facebook became the latest entrant into the online video battle Thursday, opening its Facebook f8 platform to outside developers and partners in an effort to gain ground on social networking rivals. The move allows third parties to develop functions for Facebook, including video, advertising, and retail capabilities. Part of the system will use the company's own markup language, creatively titled Facebook Markup. Since News Corp. bought rival MySpace in 2005, Facebook has struggled to keep pace. Last year, Facebook declined a $1 billion acquisition offer from Yahoo, instead choosing to go it alone in hopes of a better offer or greater solo success. Thursday's announcement could push Facebook more towards becoming a commercial provider of social networking tools, rather than attempting to take on MySpace as a consumer play. Allowing outside parties to begin selling advertising on Facebook could also help the company to monetize its audience, estimated by comScore NetworksÂ at just over 23 million visitors per month. Self-starting advertisers and retailers could build their own applications or retail functions, saving Facebook the effort while still providing revenue.
163398
Really Simple Syndication technology, which lets news junkies get instant info feeds from multiple sites, is grabbing investors' attention. The latest evidence: a multimillion-dollar funding round for RSS developer Technorati. By Daniel Terdiman.
545275
Q: One thing we want to do next year is more online advertising, but I don't know much really about how that works. Could you explain?
522821
How you can profit from the potential of IPOs.
339115
Aim to get the biggest bang for your buck when donating.
262229
Blog: Interested developers and entrepreneurs get together to talk about what they want to do with the Facebook Platform.
66956
Blog: Popular social-networking site makes its first buy: Parakey, a Web start-up created by Firefox's co-founders.
262127
Blog: The social network for spewing random thoughts is on the road to raising its first round of venture funding.
31262
To get grants, be an energy researcher. Leading universities are increasingly partnering with private sector companies to fund research.
149582
Social networking site Facebook has bought internet start-up Parakey.
688171
Microsoft Corp. has approached Facebook Inc. in recent weeks proposing an investment that would give Microsoft a 5% stake in the popular social-networking company, The Wall Street Journal reported.
212334
Looking to make a smart start? Consider these ideas.
262378
Feel like giving a bit back to something open source but aren't sure quite where to go? Well, the PHPWomen group is asking for donations to help further the women's group and its efforts:   As you know, we like to give out our free t-shirts at conferences to help spread the word about our group. [...] We also want to help out those who may be in need of training materials, help with the ZCE exam, or who want to speak at conferences, but may not afford to be able to do it.   They also have some other fund raising ideas in the works to help accomplish some of these goals too. You can also get involved and help out even if you don't have extra cash. Volunteer for the mentoring program or just offer a helping hand when they might need it.   Check out Elizabeth Naramore's blog post for more details.
243746
BREAKING NEWS - This afternoon, Microsoft won the apparent battle for an equity stake in social networking applications provider Facebook, making a $240 million equity investment in the company. In exchange, Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party supplier of Facebook's advertising platform.
100589
About a month ago, the two founders of Facebook came to The Washington Post, excited to tell me about a product they were planning to launch.
730651
Social networking site Facebook has just opened up its doors to the web's million-plus web application programmers. At a San Francisco launch event Thursday, the company debuted its new application framework that lets outside developers write programs to run on Facebook's website.