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techcrunch.com - 5/31/2009

Prepare For The Facebook Vanity URL Landrush

— techcrunch.com — Facebook will soon be allowing all users to claim a vanity URL pointing to their regular profile... page, we’ve heard from a reliable source. The announcement should come sometime later this week. Afterwards, at a certain date and time, the ... (more) Prepare For The Facebook Vanity URL Landrush

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techcrunch.com - 5/29/2009

Facebook Names First Class Of fbFund REV, Its New Incubator

— techcrunch.com — Facebook has just announced the 19 final winners of the latest round of fbFund, who will be... invited to join a special Facebook startup incubator in downtown Palo Alto this summer. We’d previously learned about the program’s 50 finalists, ... (more) Facebook Names First Class Of fbFund REV, Its New Incubator

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techcrunch.com - 5/30/2009

It’s Heeerrre: Pay With Facebook Is In The Wild

— techcrunch.com — Earlier today we wrote about Facebook updating its terms to get ready for the roll-out of its... payment system. Well guess what, it’s already here. The application GroupCard is currently testing the new payment system live for all accounts that ... (more) It’s Heeerrre: Pay With Facebook Is In The Wild

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Facebook announces FBFund winners
Webware.com — ... The workshop, called FBFund REV 2009, will run for ten weeks from June through August, according to a post on the Facebook developer blog by company representative Cat Lee. The post also contains a full list of winners, which range from a paintball game app to a dating service to an e-mail management program. ...

Facebook announces winning apps in FBFund
Download Squad — Filed under: Business, Developer, Social Software Facebook's FBFund is a $10mil initiative to provide funding for startups that are doing promising things in the Facebook app or Facebook Connect area. Recently, 18 startups were chosen to receive a whole bunch of money and attend Facebook's ...

2009 fbFund Winner Samasource Gives Work, Not Aid
Inside Facebook — Today fbFund REV officially kicked off. And we’re continuing our looks into this year’s 2009 fbFund REV winners by turning our attention to Samasource, one of the two nonprofit organizations that were selected as finalists. Unlike the other 18 winners, nonprofits didn’t receive funding due to the way fbFund is structured, but will be participating in this summer’s incubator program. Based in San Francisco, Samasource is a 501c3 nonprofit that helps businesses in the developing world find clients in the U.S. to do work on a variety on tech-based projects, including Facebook application testing. We ...

2009 fbFund Winner NutshellMail Delivers Facebook Updates to You in an Email Digest
Inside Facebook — This morning, as the fbFund REV summer incubator is still just getting under way, we bring our attention to 2009 fbFund winner NutshellMail, a website that updates you on what’s going on within your social networks in simple email digest form that can be delivered however frequently you’d like. We recently spoke with co-founders (or, in their words Co-Chief Nuts), David Lyman and Mark Schmulen, who shared with us why they started NutshellMail and their plans for the summer and beyond. Inside Facebook: What problem does NutshellMail solve? We enable our users to stay engaged in ...

fbFund Finalist RunThere Motivates the Casual Runner
Inside Facebook — As this year’s fbFund REV finalists get ready for demo day, we sat down with Leo and Sirin Hochberg, founders of RunThere.com. RunThere is a Facebook Connect enabled website for casual runners to route their favorite runs and log runs online in a more social context. Users can publish content to Facebook and create group runs for friends to join in on. Below, Leo and Sirin share some background on RunThere, new and upcoming features, and lessons learned from the fbFund experience. Leo and Sirin, when and how did you come up with RunThere? The idea of RunThere has been ...

Facebook’s fbFund Startups Spend the Day Pitching for More Dollars [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Twelve weeks after the start of Facebook’s new incubator-style fbFund program, the 18 startups in this year’s class showed off the fruits of their labor to VCs and Facebook execs in a bid to get more funding at today’s fbFund Demo Day. In addition to participating in the 10-week Y Combinator-like fbFund Rev ...