Posted on 09 May 2012
Sometimes you just need to clip some files to a document. In that thought Art. Lebedev Studios, makers of their infamous OLED keyboard first shown in 2006, created the Bulavkas flash drive , which can literally clip 4GB of data onto a document thanks to its safety pin design.
Tags: bulavkas, diminutive, expensive-flash, Facebook, flash-sitting, gadgets, infamous, lebedev-studios, literally-clip, probably-find, seeing-the-work, shirt, their-infamous, work
Posted on 09 May 2012
EveryMove , an alum of TechStars’ Seattle accelerator program building what they’ve dubbed a “mileage plan for health benefits, today announced that it has closed a $2.6 million round of series A financing. Participating investors include Penera Blue Cross, Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Nebraska, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Founders Co-op, Summit Capital, Jonathan Sposato, Voyager Capital Partner Geoff Entress, Matt Shobe, William Lohse, BuddyTV Co-founder Andy Liu, Ken Kuntz, and others. As the startup is currently in private beta, it will be using this infusion of capital to ramp up its team as it prepares to launch into the market more broadly in the third quarter.
Tags: apps, castlight, consumer, customer, data, Facebook, fundings & exits, goals, health-insurance, lifestyle, marketplace, people, premera-blue, words
Posted on 09 May 2012
Facebook today announced that it will begin supporting paid apps on its platform to be featured and sold in the new App Center also revealed today.
Tags: applications, development, experience, experiment, featured, ipo, Mobile, monetization, News, paid, possibility, program, securities, social, type
Posted on 09 May 2012
Editor’s note: Our sister company, Mediabistro, hosts online workshops that teach social media strategy. The summer session of their Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starts June 7. Read on for details.
Tags: brian-carter, chief-creative, Facebook, how-to-sessions, ignite-social, media, media-strategy, michael-monello, social, Social Media
Posted on 09 May 2012
More Facebook riches all around! The company granted about $796 million in restricted stock units to employees less than a week ago, according to an amended IPO filing. These are ”employee refresher grants,” or new grants for employees.
Tags: accel-partners, during-the-ipo, Facebook, financial, from-the-filing, numbers, prospectus, social, social-security, time
Posted on 09 May 2012
Most people probably don’t stick around social music service SoundCloud’s site to ogle its design, but apparently the team felt there was plenty of room for improvement. To that end SoundCloud, who not long ago raised a $50 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, officially pulled back the curtains on their handsome new interface in San Francisco earlier today. Here’s the thing though — chances are you can’t see it yet, as it’s only open to users in their private beta
Tags: been-redesigned, enhanced-search, everything-goes, kleiner-perkins, million-funding, new-aesthetics, new-interface, sound, soundcloud, thoughtful
Posted on 09 May 2012
Facebook has just filed a sixth amendment to its S-1 filing to IPO in order to provide more transparency about how the shift of its user base from the web to mobile is causing it to show fewer ads per user, which could hurt revenue in the long term. Facebook also granted about $796 million in restricted stock units to employees less than a week ago. I’ve excerpted the significant changes and embedded the whole S-1 below. Specifically, Facebook is warning investors that daily active user count is rising faster than the number of ads the site is showing, which it predicts will lead to a lower average revenue per user.
Tags: ability, daily, Facebook, facebook ipo, facebook-mobile, fair, financial, increase, mobile-products, money, News, number, price, shift
Posted on 09 May 2012
Along with the new App Center dashboard Facebook announced today, the company says it will soon provide developers with a “app ratings metric” for them to understand how users rate their app over time. App ratings, which are on a scale of one to five stars, will be broken down by age and gender. This will give developers new insight into the feedback their apps receive. Previously, developers could only see their apps’ average overall rating and they could not see how the rating varied over time
Tags: announced-today, apps, apps-or-whether, directly-within, discover-games, Facebook, focus-on-star, friends, insights, metrics, rating, through-the-app, unclear-whether
Posted on 09 May 2012
Facebook is replacing the current Apps and Games Dashboard with a new App Center feature that sorts Facebook apps by category and user ratings. Detailed on Facebook’s developer blog , App Center will be viewable from Facebook.com, mobile web and Facebook’s iOS and Android apps when it rolls out over the next few weeks
Tags: applications, center-details, developers-must, Facebook, games, games-dashboard, Mobile, monetization, screenshot, social, user, well-as-module, whether-or-not
Posted on 09 May 2012
Facebook’s platform may have come to life on the back of freemium apps, but now it’s taking another page from Apple’s playbook by offering paid apps.
Tags: been-successful, chief-financial, david-ebersman, Facebook, make-it-easier, Mobile, payment-feature, percent-revenue, social, some-developers, Video