links for 2008-06-26

Are you familiar with Facebook? It’s a social networking site (think MySpace) that is exponentially growing in popularity.

I know that several of my colleagues here have met with a negative student reaction to using FaceBook and MySpace (these sites specifically): they find it “creepy” that their professors are on these sites.

John McCain’s campaign last week launched a video game on Facebook called “Pork Invaders,” a spoof on the 1978 arcade favorite “Space Invaders” that takes aim at pork barrelling…

Visa Inc. today unveiled the Visa Business Network, an application built on Facebook to help companies network and drive new business — while generating $2 million in advertising revenue for Facebook Inc.

Today, we’re pleased to introduce our commercial-use service called “Animoto for Business” (http://business.animoto.com). Now, businesses ranging from large enterprises to one-person boutiques can utilize Animoto’s video creation service…

Yoono, the developer of a social Web browser extension for Mozilla’s Firefox, has added $4 million to its first round of venture capital financing, which was led by AGF Private Equity…

Wow – if anyone needed confirmation that social media is here to stay: The McCain and Obama campaigns are participating in a presidential debate. On Twitter.

The “Mean Girls” version of social media marketing is here! Socialmedia.com, a social advertising network, is launching Social Banners powered by FriendRank.

SocialMedia, one of the leading advertising platforms for social network applications, announced today that they’ve paid out over $8 million to developers since the platform’s launch last year.

How tweet it is. Twitter, the microblogging service that is changing how people communicate, has closed its long-rumored funding round.

Facebook’s quest to lure more advertisers to its popular online hangout is getting an assist from Visa’s marketing machine.