techcrunch.com - 5/30/2009
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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 have it installed. I included some ...
techcrunch.com - 5/31/2009
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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 ...
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Prepare For The Facebook Vanity URL Landrush
techcrunch.com - 5/29/2009
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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, ...
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Facebook Names First Class Of fbFund REV, Its New Incubator
developers.facebook.com - 5/28/2009
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developers.facebook.com —
Frintro : Find friends of friends to date...or
play matchmaker! If you're single, you can search your...
friends' friends and ask for intros. If you're taken, you can set friends up. Friends of friends are the best people to date. It's social dating via ...
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Universal virtual currency wars begin: Facebook payments system now testing live
VentureBeat —
Third party applications on Facebook are beginning to test out the social network’s new, in-house payment system, presaging what has been described as a wide-ranging war to among many companies to offer a single, universal virtual currency. There’s been no formal announcement of a launch yet, but an implementation is already live on an app called GroupCards, as spotted by TechCrunch earlier today.
It works along the lines of what we first heard earlier this month. When you’re trying to ...
Facebook payment system is already quietly operational for third-party developers
Obsessable News Feed —
... seemingly in preparation for a wider rollout. TechCrunch's MG Siegler spotted the GroupCard application actually using the "Pay with Facebook" currency in the wild. ...
Facebook Begins Publicly Testing Payments Platform
All Facebook —
... Last Friday Techcrunch noticed an instance of Facebook’s payment platform caught in the wild. The application that payments was integrated into was the ...
Pay with Facebook? No Thanks.
Fast Company - Technology —
... Facebook has begun testing a proprietary payment system with three of its applications,
according to TechCrunch.
As of this week, you can now use these apps--which include GroupCard,
PackRat, Birthday Calendar and Facebook's own icon gift shop--to
purchase things using Facebook " ...
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