Technically Speaking

Many people are still skeptical of the Facebook economy. Living proof of that is how much money my company is paying out to our publishers in the month of July.

Oh, and it’s been like this for months now. It wasn’t a secret really, it was just the first time our CEO said I should share just how much money we are paying out. So I shared, and now I’m sharing it again.

$279,000 (approximately, the actual is a little higher!) is a pretty decent amount of money. Not only that, I have watched a couple of our publishers take their application writing skills and create full on companies (with real people working for them as employees) that make really good money monthly from running ads.

While the rest of the economy seems to be in a very downward spiral, the Facebook economy is doing quite well. There are plenty of bloggers out there that write stories doubting the actual value of Facebook as well as if you can actually make money from creating Facebook applications. I’m here to say “Yes YOU can!”

There are a few people in this world that have the “go get it” attitude and time to work hard at it. What they bring to the table is writing the future today. I’m not here saying it’s “easy” to make the kind of money the top guys make, but if you are willing to work hard, there is a new economy out there. You just have to be ready to bring it.

Don’t let the writers/bloggers lie to you and tell you otherwise. Living proof, speaking from the inside and laughing openly outwards at the bloggers/writers that think they know it all. They don’t know jack. The people I work with at Lookery have been hard at work this entire year now, and things are getting really exciting for us with each new cool thing we are letting the world know about.

Technically Speaking, my jaw drops all the time at the numbers I see every single day and at the ridiculous amounts of money that people are earning each and every month (and some daily!). What is keeping you from being a Lookery publisher? Isn’t it about time you started making some real money?

Quite interesting how a social network is now attracting all the top dogs even from what was one of the coolest places to work, Google. The real question is how long will this defection last, and what does Facebook offer to the cool top echelon of Google employees? One thing is for certain, Facebook has become a major place of employment for those wanting to work at the new cool place to work in the valley.

While they have created new jobs for those ex-Googlers that want to continue working at a company, many of the ex-Googlers have left to start their own startup. Funny thing is that Facebook has powered many a small company, mostly companies that have been formed around the openness of the Facebook development platform. So while only so many can work directly for Facebook, there are others like myself that have benefited from the growth of Facebook working at an ad network that launched last July that primarily was formed to help these developers monetize their new applications; or fb apps.

When we started we had no idea if the growth of the development platform would be as extraordinary as it has been. We have been along for the ride and our growth has been quite phenomenal from the inside looking out. Of course as I blogged earlier today on the official Lookery blog, we have had our sights on bigger social networks; even earlier than other ad networks would admit.

Technically Speaking, I think the wild Facebook ride will continue on through 2008 into 2009 and beyond. I just wonder how many more will go work for Facebook? I’m sure we will see some more big names make the eventual stop in for a desk at Facebook HQ.

Arsenal Interactive Inc., today launched the HeyCosmoSM Texas Hold’em poker application on Facebook Platform. HeyCosmo is an intuitive and entertaining free web-cam service enabling live interactivity and communication on the Internet. Now, people can access this service directly from their personal profile pages.

The live, multi-player Texas Hold’em poker application brings virtual gaming to life. After users download the application direct from the site, they can choose to join a game already in session or create a game, invite other players to join and begin game play immediately.

Each player has a full-motion video stream around a graphically rich poker table, allowing participants to see and talk to each other as if they were in the same room. Arsenal Interactive’s technology supports up to 10 live web-cam video participants and up to 50 people will be able to watch, listen, and chat during the games. At 30 frames per second, it’s just like being in the same room, around the same poker table.

The magic behind HeyCosmo is a high-quality interactive multimedia engine, which features proprietary video, audio, and multi-party call control technologies. Arsenal’s engineering team consists of innovative industry veterans who have collaborated for the past six years to build proven and scalable multimedia service platforms in collaboration with various industry standard groups and service provider entities.

Founded in November 2006, Arsenal Interactive, Inc. is a web-cam based social video network company. Arsenal Interactive’s next generation portal, HeyCosmoSM, is built upon its proven and scalable technologies by a team of industry executives and engineers in emerging technologies, media, sports, and multimedia communications applications including advanced video codecs, wireless multimedia and real time multimedia services. Arsenal Interactive, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.

This is another paying job, this one pays well from what I hear the client is willing to pay. I have offered this out to our publishers on Lookery, and no one has stepped up to the plate. If you are a fb app developer that has some time to do a project for one of our clients, than definitely contact us today! If that form doesn’t work, than just drop me a line.

Technically Speaking, I have work for bloggers and now fb app developers. I’m starting to feel like a headhunting service!!! Come on people, these jobs do pay real ca$h money. DO I need to say anymore?

Disclosure: I work for Lookery in Publisher Relations. I work for Lending Club as their Director of Social Media Content.

Music Biz wins - Well they won round #1 in the war, that I’m sure will continue. One comment left on this blog suggested we all start a fund for Jammie. So do you think or agree with Vickie? Should we rally around Jammie and lend her a few dollars to pay off her fine?

YouTube Spam - Yes, it seems that spam is everywhere. Now in the case of YouTube (who is Google in disguise), they really need to do something asap. Marshall has all the scoop info you love to read as well as related articles on this.

Facebook to do what? - Why not. Serve up some mp3’s. Everyone loves mp3’s. Well legal music is great. But according to the trial above, what really is legal anymore? It seems like the record industry wants it all and than some. Greed. It’s totally why the record business has declined. It has nothing to do with file sharing. Artists saw an opportunity and the ones who have seized it are the ones that are doing fine. Record companies screwed musicians for years upon decades.

Technically Speaking, the music business is changing and for the better for the people creating the music - the artist - the musician. Sorry, no more greedy lawyers sitting on their fat a$$es collecting a check. Go chase an ambulance would ya? IBM memory