• Inside Facebook: Media companies don’t understand Facebook
  “here is some expertise involved in building Facebook applications that users will actually use to shuffle your content around their social network.”
  (tags: facebook applications interface Design usability)
• Revver: $1 Million In User Payouts In First 12 Months
  “Social video site Revver has paid $1 million to video producers and their affiliates over the past year, the company says”
  (tags: video socialmedia streaming UGC web2.0 business)
• Facebook Apps Are Pointless If They Don’t Work
  “it seems unnecessarily inefficient that developers have to work with both Facebook and a 3rd-party meta service to deploy successful applications. I’d like to see Facebook itself step in and fill this need for developers…”
  (tags: facebook performance scalability applications development Amazon ec2)
• Web 2 Point Slow – Slowcial Communities
  “measured 20 Web 2.0 community websites, that are ranked among the Alexa global top 100 sites, with YSlow.”
  (tags: Web2.0 performance YSlow Firefox optimization firebug Yahoo)
• Yahoo Lands Bebo Advertising Deal
  “Yahoo just announced that they will handle advertising for the UK and Ireland sites of Bebo, one of the large social networks”
  (tags: Yahoo video Advertising socialnetworking Business)

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