Comments on: Facebook Pushing Birthday Virtual Gifts on Profile Pages

By: arumi

arumi — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:36:56 +0000

There’s a limit to sending gifts, you can only send 1 gift for each of your friend in every 4 hours.

By: Dustin Schible

Dustin Schible — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:44:48 +0000

I actually couldnt beleave it when i saw it.
it is so stupid.
what next are we going to start charging people for saying have a nice day.
that stupid capitalism at its best

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By: Facebook Continues Build Out of Gifting Business with Scheduled Birthday Gifts

Facebook Continues Build Out of Gifting Business with Scheduled Birthday Gifts — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:39:21 +0000

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By: Rajesh Lalwani

Rajesh Lalwani — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:15:59 +0000

Interesting development in virtual goods from Facebook and SocialCalendar – great minds think alike

Small correction – SocialCalendar expects not just virtual gifts but, in general, virtual goods to be an important source of revenue. SocialCalendar provides hundreds of icons to be used on one’s calendar, e.g. several birthday cakes for a birthday occasion, a movie reel icon for going to movies or a hearts icon for a date.

We expect users to buy several thousand virtual gifts and icons per day. Most will be bought with reward points initially but we expect users to start buying points with real money eventually.