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Top 3 Keys to Viral Apps on Facebook

April 17, 2008 – 5:27 am

We see thousands of Facebook applications. Over 4,000 developers run their Facebook apps on Joyent Facebook Accelerators. We have seen people grow from 10 users to 10,000,000. And, we have seen great apps go nowhere. Tonight, I was talking with SocialMedia’s Nick Gonzalez. Nick said that the Facebook app space is a microcosm of the [...]

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30% Plan to add Facebook as Marketing Channel

April 7, 2008 – 7:46 pm

We recently sent out a survey to all Joyent users. One of the questions we asked was “What are your plans to leverage Joyent’s peering with Facebook ?” 30% of respondents answered “We are not yet driving traffic through a Facebook app, but plan to in the future”.

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Light Engineering

March 10, 2008 – 10:24 pm

How fast can your company move? How quickly can you innovate? How do you take your company’s best ideas and make them real? One of the surest ways to generate a constant stream of above average profits is to generate a constant stream of great new products. An innovative new product, such as the iPod [...]

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50 New Accelerators in One Go

February 21, 2008 – 11:58 pm

I’m hanging out at the BuildingWebApps RailsQuickStart Seminar class in San Francisco. Christopher Haupt just lead the class through the process of logging into their Joyent Accelerators for the first time. This is the first time I have seen so many people log into new Accelerators simultaneously. Since we launched the Free Joyent Facebook Accelerators [...]

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Joyent powers 11% of Facebook App users

January 29, 2008 – 6:46 am

In November of last year, we announced that Joyent was teaming with Dell to give away $3.2 Million in Joyent Accelerators to Facebook Developers. Our goal was to give developers the power to quickly create and deploy Facebook applications capable of scaling to millions of users. So far, the program has succeeded tremendously. Of the [...]

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Sponsoring the RailsQuickStart Seminar

January 16, 2008 – 11:43 pm

We are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the RailsQuickStart Seminar put on by the folks at Building Web Apps. It sounds like it will be a great class. It goes for two days on Feb 20-21. Friends of Joyent can use the offer code JOYENT for an extra $50 off. That code doesn’t [...]

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Fail Fast = Start-up Success

December 1, 2007 – 1:11 am

One of the things we are most proud of at Joyent is our history of helping fledging start-ups bootstrap themselves into a successful business. A critical component of this is giving you the flexibility to “fail fast”. This means you can try a business plan, see if it catches on, adjust and react to market [...]

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$3.2M give away of Joyent Accelerators for Facebook Developers

November 13, 2007 – 7:42 pm

Today at the Facebook Developer Garage in Dallas, Joyent CEO David Young is announcing that we are teaming with Dell to give away $3.2 Million in Joyent Accelerators for Facebook Developers. The program is open to the first 3,500 developers who sign up. Facebook’s Dave Morin has just posted about it on the Facebook Developers [...]

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