A blog about Social Media by John Maver and Cappy Popp
On June 28, 2008 Cappy Popp spoke at the Social Media Business School event in New York City hosted by socialmedia.com. He discussed marketing Facebook applications effectively and gave insights into the complex and ever-changing ecosystem of Facebook. Eddie Smith, VP of Marketing and Business Development for socialmedia.com, had this to say: “Cappy did a [...]
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John Maver and Cappy Popp will be presenting at the GSP East Intro To Facebook and Bebo Applications workshop at 9:00 on Monday, June 9th in Washington, DC. Stop by and say hi, if you are there. http://en.oreilly.com/gspeast2008/public/schedule/detail/3272
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As one of the first examples of what is possible with the new Hook Mobile API , Thought Labs has released Pic2Phone. Users can now receive their friend’s latest photos and comments delivered as a daily MMS sent right to their phone. According to this article at MobHappy, with applications like this that incorporate the [...]
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John has been spending a lot of time over the past few months trying to actively participate in the Bebo Developer forums. After working on the Inner Circle and Doorbell applications for Facebook, he had learned a lot about the platform. As we worked to port those applications over to Bebo, John thought that he [...]
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We have finished porting Inner Circle for Facebook over to Bebo. It was much easier because of our experience porting Doorbell, and the quick updates Bebo has made to their platform to make it more compatible with Facebook. Their goal is 100% compatibility, and although there are only 4 developers, they are making good progress. [...]
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Since Bebo finally opened up their platform for everyone a last week, we thought it would be fun to convert Doorbell for Facebook over to it. Bebo supports most of the Facebook API, so converting wasn’t too hard. Most of the time was finding out the places where they don’t work the same. All the same [...]
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After creating Inner Circle last year, we wanted to try to make something that was light and easy. Doorbell was born. Doorbell adds a Doorbell to your Facebook Profile. You can choose between several styles of walls, bells and ring sounds. Your friends can ring it when they visit your profile and you can go to the [...]
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Inner Circle is a new Facebook application that lets you cut through the Facebook noise and get real information about your friends. The Problems: Too many friends – You have lots of friends and all their information is jammed together. The more friends you have, the harder it is to find out what you want. [...]
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