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November 3, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Ethics, Virtual Goods, and Advertising Schemes: You’ll want to follow this

This weekend @Mollstar and I had a long (relative to the amount of time I can usually get her to talk about the web) conversation about how we don’t really understand who plays all these Facebook games. Other than Poker from Zynga, which I play a decent amount of, I don’t understand who grows virtual [...]

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Posted Under Brands & Marketing Economics Mistakes & Lessons

September 30, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

What I would change about Zynga’s strategy on Facebook.

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Posted Under Economics

April 17, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Facebook cashing in: IPO looming

image via aknacer “We will be looking for someone with public company experience who can help take (Facebook) to the next stage in our growth.” – Mark Zuckerberg, an internal FB email I just finished reading Kara Swishers post on AllThingsD (from 2 weeks ago) about Zuckerbergs announcement that Gideon Yu’s departure, their now ex-CFO. [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship

April 15, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Improving Communication: How To Link Facebook to Twitter & Why The Hell You Should.

via vadirajcs I’m pumped that now my Tweets feed directly to Facebook. All the friends that made fun of me for using Twitter are now commenting and joining in conversations around my Tweets and my blog posts that I share on Facebook via Twitter. This is a huge “crossing of the chasm” for Twitter because [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship Technology

January 20, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Facebook Grader from Hubspot

You probably saw the Hubspot Twitter grader, most people who use Twitter regularly have. And if you have a business online you’ve probably used Hubspot’s website grader. They measure for SEO strengths, etc. Now Hubspot, just (last night), released the Facebook Grader. The measure your friends, strength of friends, and how active and updated your [...]

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Posted Under Technology

September 12, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

BearHug Camp : Live

*click on the pic to watch live This afternoon I watch the BearHug Camp hosted by Steve Gillmor.  The event was focused on the progress of the micro-blogging space. One of the main topics of conversation was around live search of the Twitter data. Currently there is nothing that is “real time” and for political [...]

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Posted Under People & Leadership Technology

July 25, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

F8

As many know Facebook held their annual developers conference yesterday at the San Fransisco Design Center. The agenda (shared below) emphasized three main changes coming to FB: more sharing, simplification, and getting developers more involved. There were a few main sites that will now be much more integrated with Facebook such as Digg and Seesmic! [...]

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Posted Under People & Leadership Technology

June 8, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Three tiers of the modern web experience.

  I love this image because for me it encompasses the way people <bias> should use the internet<bias/>. Personally, these are the three tiers of my web experience. The hardware, the interaction, the information. Tier #1: Apple  As you probably know if you read this blog regularly I recently purchased a Mac Book Pro and [...]

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Posted Under Technology


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