Facebook Facebooks About Schools on Facebook
For the past few months, Facebook has focused marketing efforts on the education community. And since that shift, they have spent time identifying the real movers and shakers using Facebook to add practical value to educators around the world. We were interviewed by their marketing team to learn more about how our application, Schools, benefits [...]
September Wrap-Up
Greetings Inigral friends! It’s been a fast and furious month here on the west coast, but productive nonetheless. Hopefully your newest class of Freshmen are settled in at this point. We can’t wait to hear about the new things you’ve tried this year to make them feel at home! Here’s what we’ve been up to. Earlier this month, we were invited to speak at Facebook’s headquarters to help educate their platform team of what we’re up to for the upcoming school year.
What Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Means for Inigral
By now, every Facebook user with an iPhone probably has Joe Hewitt’s latest creation: Facebook for iPhone 3.0. It’s a beautiful application, with a totally revamped interface and functionality. Several noteworthy features were launched including a new home screen which will offer the ability to customize (i.e. adding boxes to the default start screen), a better ‘News Feed’ (a [...]
Inigral Speaks at Facebook HQ
Last week, we were invited to Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, CA to present on how we’re changing the way higher education uses social media. It was very informative both for us to hear from the creators of Facebook’s platform on how Schools on Facebook was the type of application they envisioned being used when it was first built.
The Next Phase of Social Media: Facebook Platform Finally Realized
It wasn’t always the case when a company could execute a business plan that was solely revolved around another company’s platform. And then there was Facebook. With over 225 million members, and over 500,000 registered developers, the platform has become a sustainable ecosystem for garage start-ups with two people (such as Sticky Notes), or companies with over 100 employees (like Zynga). A recent post on VentureBeat showed that these developers could generate over $500M in revenues this year, which puts the platform on an even playing field, if not greater, than Facebook itself.
Inigral/Serious Business Presentation Night
“Hvordan går det?” filled the air Monday night near San Francisco’s Montgomery street Bart Station, as Inigral and Serious Business presented their varying business models to a visiting group of Danish entrepreneurs. Serious Business Founder and CEO Siqi Chen, along with members from Inigral’s founding team including Michael Staton (CEO), Joseph Sofaer, and George Deglin, explained how startups are becoming fully sustainable on top of this emerging platform.
Developing a Facebook Platform application from your local machine (with Ruby on Rails)
You have a laptop, a sever and a Facebook app. Ideally, Facebook would talk to your development machine. But what if you don’t have a static ip address and you can’t use dynamic dns or port forwarding? vReverse SSH Tunneling is what you need my friend. The following is a step by step tutorial of [...]
