RockYou! (originally known as RockMySpace), based in Redwood City, California is a publisher and developer of applications and other social network services. As of December, 2007 it is the most successful widget maker for the Facebook platform in terms of total installations.
RockYou! was founded in 2006 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen, who had worked together on a photo slide show project for software developer Iconix. The company's first product w...
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RockYou! (originally known as RockMySpace), based in Redwood City, California is a publisher and developer of applications and other social network services. As of December, 2007 it is the most successful widget maker for the Facebook platform in terms of total installations.
RockYou! was founded in 2006 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen, who had worked together on a photo slide show project for software developer Iconix. The company's first product was also a slide show service, designed to work as an application widget. The founders' former employer obtained a federal injunction against the company in late 2006 in connection with ownership of intellectual property, but the parties quickly settled the matter. Later applications included various forms of voice mail, text and photo stylization, and games.
In May, 2007, RockYou! was one of the companies invited to participate in F8, the event at which Facebook announced an open platform allowing third parties to develop and operate their own...
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