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By Silicon el 21-Apr-2008
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Slide, Inc. is arguably the most successful company in the Facebook microeconomy: It owns two of the top three Facebook apps, including no. 1 FunWall, which boasts about 3 million users. For what it's worth, it also has the backing of Fidelty and T. Rowe Price in a funding round that supposedly values the company at $500 million.
But its trademark service -- jazzy-looking photo slideshows -- has only caught on with about 3,000 Facebook users. Meanwhile, AllFacebook points out, it's getting stomped by a relative newcomer: The Animoto video application, which allows you to create video slideshows out of your Facebook photos. The Animoto app has more than 223,000 active users on Facebook.
Big deal? Not really. In the short term, Animoto's service is hardly revolutionary, and it wouldn't be hard for Slide to ape and distribute a similar widget. In the long term, what matters most to Slide -- and its ambitions of selling ads on widgets across Facebook, MySpace, other social networks, etc. -- is that people use its services, period. It doesn't matter if they're MySpace slideshows, Facebook FunWalls, or any other specific app.
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Bennett Williamson at FATLAB writes:
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Slide, Inc. is arguably the most successful company in the Facebook microeconomy: It owns two of the top three Facebook apps, including no. 1 FunWall, which boasts about 3 million users. For what it's worth, it also has the backing of Fidelty and T. Rowe Price in a funding round that supposedly values the company at $500 million.
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Slide, the company that makes Facebook's most popular apps, says it's done making new ones for the social network. Keith Rabois, VP of strategy and business development, told us this week that the c [..] 
Slide, the makers of popular social networking apps like FunWall (#1 on Facebook) and Top Friends (#3 on Facebook), is hoping to woo Madison Avenue by opening an office in New York in the West Villa [..] 
Google and Facebook haven't been the best of friends lately. Facebook banned Google's Friend Connect late last week amid a battle over who controls personal Facebook data, and it doesn't look the [..] 
Two years is all it took for the Wii to slide on past its grandfather and sneak into the number five spot on the all time best-selling console list. That’s right folks, the spunky young newcomer rang up an impressive 34.55 million units sold around the world and it still has plenty of lifespan to [...] [..] 
Bennett Williamson at FATLAB writes:
The default Mac OS X (I’m on version 10.4.11) screensaver picture slideshow function can read an alpha channel in a .gif file. That is to say, as the slideshow plays your images, a .gif with an alpha channel will appear to be “on top” of the previous image, and as the [...] [..] 
Earlier this month widget-maker Slide said it was done making Facebook applications. So is its biggest competitor, RockYou, following suit? No, says RockYou CTO and founder Jia Shen.
The c [..] 
Just as we predicted, a special red version of the Sidekick Slide has hit the streets. The Sidekick Slide Crimson is functionally identical to its purple brother, sporting EDGE, 1.3 megapixel camera, slide out QWERTY keyboard, Danger’s stellar AIM client, and a bit more. It’s not going to win any awards for "Innovation of the [...] [..] 
Do you use the Facebook/MySpace app SuperPoke? (The one that lets you throw sheep at -- or send virtual drinks to -- your friends.) Are you a fan of crappy reality TV [..] 
Likely due to the recent introduction of the oh-so-mediocre Sidekick 2008, the Sidekick Slide appears to have been unceremoniously removed from T-Mobile’s catalog. Online stock is completely depleted, with stores selling off their limited inventory to the final few customers that are foolish fast enough to get there in time. The Slide was Motorola’s first [...] [..] 
