written by Nisan Gabbay, posted on June 28th, 2007

Like everyone else these days, I have been thinking a lot about Facebook and the F8 application platform. I thought I would share some of my research notes here, but this was not meant to be an exhaustive analysis. As of this writing, there were 18 Facebook apps (not developed by Facebook) having 1M or more users. These were the apps that I analyzed to draw my conclusions. In addition to my personal review of the app, I also e-mailed interview questions to the creators of these apps, some of whom responded - big thanks to David Gentzel (Food Fight), Blake Commagere (Causes), Dan Peguine (Honesty Box), and Zachary Allia (Free Gifts) for sharing their tips with us.

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written by Jay Parkhill, posted on May 13th, 2007

Rare companies like YouTube show what happens when entrepreneurs stumble on the right idea at just the right time, but I suspect that most companies miss the time window slightly and have to adjust. Elance is an interesting study in how to adapt when the market isn’t ready.

Elance is an online agency that matches technical, design and other professionals with businesses needing such services. Project “owners” post their requirements and service providers bid on them. The company was founded in 1999, currently receives 130,000 unique visitors per week, and matches 2,500 projects with service providers every week.

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