Is real revenue suddenly becoming important? If so, when will the TechCrunch elites start twittering about it? More importantly, what will it mean for apps?

Techcrunch provides the stark image: Facebook is double MySpace in size.
The information has us eager for other stats. Including:
1. Time spent on site.
2. Unique users.
3. Age distribution in other countries.
Hopefully a MySpace/Facebook battle will help leak some of the data.

By now, it’s obligatory we weigh in on the “Whopper Sacrifice” Controversy.
We’d love to offer a contrarian take on the matter and say that Facebook made the right call.
But we can’t.
For the uninitiated, Burger King recently created an application allowing users to remove ten friends in order to get a Whopper coupon. The media frenzy [...]

We’ve spent a lot of time noting how Facebook profile changes have restricted applications.
There’s one side effect we haven’t mentioned.
Facebook’s Virtual Gift product suddenly matters again.
When Facebook opened up its platform to developers, its own gift program was canniballized by apps that had equal space on user profiles. Now that those apps have lost prime [...]

As 2009 begins, we thought it might be interesting to look back at the issues we were blogging about in 2008.
On the top of our minds in ‘08? Application spam.
It’s interesting to reflect on now. Application spam has basically been quashed by Facebook’s policies restricting notifications, invites, and other obtrusive methods.
But there’s also a secondary [...]