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Facebook Gets in the App Discovery Game With “Graph Rank”

Ina Fried in Mobile on September 22, 2011 at 11:50 am PT

Among its flurry of announcements on Thursday, Facebook announced plans to help users find apps and other content based on how popular those things are with one’s own social circle.

SCVNGR's Seth Priebatsch Talks About Geolocation Wars, Facebook Places and More!

Kara Swisher in News on August 30, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Last week, SCVNGR integrated its third-party social geolocation game service into the Facebook Places mega-location offering. As it turned out, BoomTown was in Beantown–as in Boston–for a lovely wedding, so I took some prenuptial time to visit SCVNGR’s HQ in Cambridge, Mass., to talk to its founder, Seth Priebatsch.

Google Buys Another Piece of Its Social Puzzle

Peter Kafka in Media on August 27, 2010 at 11:09 am PT

Another small start-up gets sucked up into the Googleplex. This one is Angstro, which was supposed to help deliver news to users based on their “social graph.” But founder Rohit Khare has shut the service down and is now working at the search giant.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Privacy Hot Seat at D8

John Paczkowski in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 4:48 pm PT

Facebook’s privacy controls and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s views on privacy figured prominently in his D8 appearance. Zuckerberg thinks his users want to share their information with the world, and he wants to help them do just that.

Pre-Gaming Facebook F8

John Paczkowski in Social on April 21, 2010 at 4:45 am PT

According to popular legend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once kept two versions of his business card in his wallet–one with the title CEO, the other with “I’M CEO…BITCH.” Seems that before Facebook became the de facto platform of the attention economy, it was a platform for the attention-starved. Well, there will be no shortage of attention for the social networking phenom today as it kicks off its third F8 developer conference in San Francisco.

Yahoo Is Trying to Connect to the Social Boom Without Stepping in It Like Google Buzz

Kara Swisher in News on February 24, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Is there more than one way to skin a social graph? Yesterday, Yahoo took another step in its efforts to play fast catch-up in the social networking arena, by dramatically expanding its relationship with Twitter and integrating the microblogging service broadly throughout its Web site, in much the same way it did recently with Facebook. Some think outsourcing the job to more capable companies is yet another monument to Yahoo’s failure at its own much touted plans to socialize itself. And while this is true to a large extent, BoomTown is not so sure it’s a bad idea, especially compared with the flailing experienced by Google recently from its own attempts to compete with Facebook and Twitter via the rollout of Google Buzz.