I’ll be analyzing the FaceBook Prospectus in a series of upcoming blog postings.  In the meantime, feel free to download the Word version, PDF version or view it online.

High Level Summary

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.

FB seems like a closed system to me…

People use Facebook to stay connected with their friends and family, to discover what is going on in the world around them, and to share and express what matters to them to the people they care about.

FB is the quintessential digital yearbook…

Developers can use the Facebook Platform …

The Skyfire app has great promise as an iPhone browser if it only worked.  I downloaded it because I wanted to listen to a local radio station using a Flash Player which seems to be the only way to listen online using Safari.   Well, after paying $2.99 I got the same old error message saying I needed the Flash plugin.  I immediately requested a refund.
Below are the steps I took to request an Skyfire app refund:

Launch iTunes
Go to Purchase History
Report a problem
Fill out the form with your reason for …

I came across an interesting statistic doing research on the iPhone application category hierarchy.
Based on July 2009 figures from O’reilly research, Games by far was the leading application category with a  21% share of unique apps.  Entertainment, Books, Utilities, and Education follow Games to round out the top 5 most popular categories.  The biggest surprise was the huge popularity of the News category with a whopping 253% increase from 12 weeks prior.

Why is News so popular and what does this mean?  Well, it probably means more and more users like to get …

I’ve been buying domains names since 1997 and now own about 500 of them. I consider buying domain names like buying land. It’s all about location, location, location.
Occasionally, I get random emails from individuals wanting to buy my domains, but only at a certain percentage over the appraised value. Appraised value? What does that mean and who are these so called experts appraising domain names?

Take a look at a sample email I recently received.
From: Richard Thomas
From Email: rthomas291@gmail.com
Subject: Offer to purchase AGGIEBLISS.COM – domain …

I searched and searched for a WordPress theme that was both elegant and functional, and I finally came a across a free one called Arthemia.

After downloading the theme and activating it using the theme editor, I quickly found out this was going to take some work to get it to look like the screen shot above. This is not “Out of the Box” ready….I repeat do not try this if you are not somewhat technical. To help everyone out, I will be discussing the issues I …

I must say, installing WordPress is about as easy as taking down Twitter!

In less than 5-minutes, I installed and configured WordPress on a Linux server and added about 15 plug-ins and 10 themes.  The guys at WordPress really did a great job transforming this blog engine into a full fledged CMS.
Great development work, guys
Shawn