Hungry Machine

You haven’t heard from us for a while because we were working on a new project – LivingSocial – the web-site that spreads across all major social networks (Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Orkut) allowing people to talk to each other about their interests without barriers. We are going to speak more about it in a dedicated [...]

We just got back from several conferences around the social media space. CommunityNext was a developer-centric event that allowed for many interactions and trading of best practices with several top Facebook developers. GraphingSocial was a slightly larger gathering that brought together an impressive list of speakers including Reid Hoffman, Michael Arrington, Danny Sullivan and others. [...]

In the good ol’ days of, let’s say…. three months ago, life was simple. The birds chirped a bit louder, the grass was a little greener, and, best of all, you could build an app on Facebook, submit it to the directory, tag it with a category or two, and see it nestle in among [...]

The Wall Street Journal had a nice article yesterday about the rush to build apps in the Facebook space, in which they were kind enough to mention Hungry Machine. One of the points Riva touched on was around the different rationales for building an app. I wanted to elaborate a bit more on a few [...]

We’ve been helping partners promote their applications via sponsored cross-linking for a while now. I recently had an idea that has been converting very well. I encourage you to give it a try, whether it’s with us or with somebody else.
It’s simple: combine a positive review from your application’s review wall, your 75×75 directory [...]

And so it begins. Welcome to the maiden posting for the Hungry Machine blog. We’re 4 guys bringing our expertise in Ruby On Rails and experience from AOL, Revolution Health, and Blockbuster together to build some great new products and services. For those of you that read us at RevolutionOnRails, we have a new [...]