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Facebook’s New App Verification System And Revenue Model

by Jason Wilk on November 17, 2008

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  • Third party applications available in the Facebook App Store will be segmented into “Great Apps” (these are major apps such as iLike), “Verified Apps” (Facebook inspected and appproved), and then the rest.
  • To apply to be verified, developers must pay a $375 fee. They are expecting around 10% of the current 48K apps to be ‘verified’, which would be an extra $18M in incremental revenue to Facebook. Yay! More Servers!
  • This will certainly help lift up apps hidden under the pile of garbage offerings found in the Facebook community.

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Yammer Wins TechCrunch 50. Benioff Wants To Buy Them

by Jason Wilk on September 10, 2008

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  • Twitter for enterprise, Yammer, takes the cake at the TechCrunch 50 Conference.
  • 50,000 and a whole lot of funding (or quick sale) is on the way for this company, which was started by Geni
  • If they can jump the hurdle of employee verification as the TechCrunch panel mentioned, Mark Benioff said he would buy them.
  • I would not doubt that the terms for Benioff to buy them were signed before the award was given out.
  • Congrats Yammer. I thought that DropBox was going to win but apparently they had a slip up in their presentation. I had you guys penciled in to win second place.
  • Thank you to Mike and Jason for putting on such a great conference. tinyCrunch had a great time meeting everyone and enjoying the wonderful seminars, judges, presenters and demoers.

Made tiny from: TechCrunch 50 Conference.

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