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Facebook's plan to memorialize its dead users is certainly well-intentioned. The idea got underway after a Facebook employee was tragically killed in a bicycle accident. As his co-workers struggle...
When social networking company Facebook announced Tuesday that it was cash flow positive for the first time, the company was ...
The ABC's Media Watch provides a neat example of why you need to spend some time tweaking your Facebook privacy settings....
Over the past day there has been significant discussion about what the future holds for real-time search, and no matter what conversation you look at, Facebook is always part of i ...
Facebook is being blocked in China over the Urumqi clashes. Rediya Kadeer, president of the World Uighur Congress, explained.
The ever appealing hosted blogging platform Posterous now supports posting to Facebook. You might remember that Steve Rubel moved to the platform recently. The addition of Facebook support surely i...
The Facebook vanity URLs might not be coming until Saturday for most of us, but if your name is Michael Arrington and you're running TechCrunch, you get dibs. That's right, Facebook is giving prior...
Rudy Ariffin, the Governor of South Kalimantan in Indonesia, has been using Facebook for the last five months. He spends between 30 to 60 minutes in the evening to communicate with his constituents...
According to new data from Inside Facebook, users over the age of 55 haven't been as actively using Facebook over the past two months after triple digit growth.
Ever since it unveiled its platform back in 2007, Facebook seemed to devote more time and attention to expanding its platform outward, via programs like Facebook Connect, and to reorganizing itself...
The Facebook Open Stream API. ... As a Facebook developer you'll also be able to access the posts you've published into the stream and display them in your application, whether it's on a mobile dev...
The Action Streams plugin is an amazing new plugin (which imitates Facebook streams on your Wall) for Movable Type 4.1 that lets you aggregate, control, and share your actions around the web as wel...
If your users are uploading 40 million photos a day, what does your data center look like? A new video provides a look at one of Facebook's data center facilities.
Soon you may be seeing links to download copies of Star Wars or the newest Britney Spears album pop up your Facebook news feed. This is because The Pirate Bay,
Facebook Launches Arabic, Hebrew Version - The Huffington Post.
While Facebook has been busy working on its new constitution in an effort to appease its increasingly anxious community over the past few days, the second application of ...
The consumerist takes a look at Facebook's attempts at a new Terms of Service. Normally I would go straight to the article from a blog like this. But The Consumerist has good comments and in order...
Commenting with Facebook Connect. ... Facebook Developer Garage Palo Alto: Feeds and Social Distribution. February 10, 2009. OpenID User Experience Summit at Facebook. February 10, 2009. Opening Up...
Isn't it ironic that Facebook, which is so often used by groups of people to protest and demand changes for just about anything, ...
Here’s an idea that you’ll wish you thought of first: Facebook status updates as t-shirts. Status King is a new application on Facebook that simply lets.
A teen who murdered a man after saying saying 'I feel like killing someone' gets life.
All Alfred Essa's Facebook friends (including myself) received an 'urgent help needed' message from him over Facebook. It turns out, however, that the person in question was a scammer, having someh...
I have the language on my facebook account set to English (Pirate). Yes, you did read that right! My friend Rich told me about it on IM, so I had a look….It’s absolutely brilliant, it adds a new di...
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Back when I was nearing the end of my high school years; what isn’t surrounded in a fog anyway, the big psychological pabulum of the day was that the really cool parents where those that acted like...
The pioneer of the social networking phenomenon has been totally overshadowed as Facebook Inc. recorded almost double the number of global visitors in December than long-time leader MySpace Inc. ...
Today Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. As several million people attended the inauguration in Washington DC, Facebook and CNN invited ...
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[From Halo] If you are on Facebook, the Palm Pre is getting a lot of attention on Facebook and you can join the Palm Facebook page to get the latest gossip. "It was just last Thursday that Palm unv...
Like Rod, I already spend more time online than I probably should, and like Alan I find absolutely nothing appealing about Facebook (or any of the other social networking sites, for that matter)....
Facebook users choose food over friends, Recently-disabled Burger King application let users drop 10 friends in exchange for a burger.
Everyone and their grand-pappy is on Facebook these days and The Godfather is no exception. To build excitement for The Godfather II and reach that "social networking" crowd, EA has released a not ...
Seth Sternberg, CEO of Meebo, posted a notice tonight that the company has been temporarily banned from accessing Facebook using their cur ...
Facebook has been growing by leaps and bounds internationally, but how is it doing in the US? This question matters, ...
I think even @facebook’s twitter account was hacked. It posted some spam link just few minutes ago. I wonder what’s going on! reply. Mike Butcher - January 5th, 2009 at 9:56 am PST. We picked up Br...
Application platforms, broadly defined, are here to stay. Facebook's platform, first launched in 2007, now has tens of thousands of applications. MySpace, which ...
When the Facebook Platform launched in May 2007, many speculated on Facebook’s various opportunities for revenue generation on Platform. However, while there has been much talk of Facebook’s revenu...
Pierson, the UH associate professor, cautions teachers against becoming "one of the gang" with their students on Facebook, but said such sites can help humanize teachers, facilitate online learning...
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Chris Kelly, Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer who spent time this summer explaining Facebook’s privacy principles to Congress, is planning to announce his candidacy for the California Attorney Gene...
Facebook Connect is new technology that allows websites and blogs to plug into the Facebook platform. This holiday season, Disqus will enable all websites with Disqus-powered comments to easily int...
Facebook has become a wildly popular online hangout, attracting more than 140 million users worldwide since it launched in 2004. Facebook friends can "poke" or "superpoke" each other -- terms for g...
What does Facebook want for Christmas? A greater foothold on the European ad market by the looks of things: the social network is set to open a sales office in Paris as part of plans to grow across...
A while ago, there appeared a Facebook group (SRP) with the same name and 1045 members - as well as a counter-group (SRP, ENG), whose 10584 members are appealing to Facebook administrators to close...
A fast-growing new group of Facebook users from Bosnia called on Facebook to shut down another group on the site that celebrates the 1995 massacre of 8000 Bosnian ...
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, sh...
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Some of us cynical types used to wonder if Facebook would ever amount to anything beyond a place to throw sheep at your friends. Silly us! While we were really talking about Facebook's ability to...
FRAUDSTERS who use sites like Facebook to try to steal people's will be the target of new laws.
Brain Bits. If you join Facebook, be prepared that your high school friends WILL upload photos of you and give you 'blast from the past' moments like these (top right hand corner). → Comments ...
Facebook Awarded Record $873 Million In Spam Suit - The Huffington Post.
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How many times have you said to yourself, “Facebook is so taking over my life!” Between endless wall-posting, scrolling through thousands of pictures of you and your friends, checking up on people ...
Facebook has rolled out a new application vetting program designed to help you navigate through the sea of available apps to find trustworthy options. Unfortunately the program bears a striking res...
Giants Facebook and Microsoft, however, have so far not jumped on the OpenSocial bandwagon. Facebook has 125 million active users around the world, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seeking to establish F...
3 Mobiles has unveiled the first "Facebook phone," though in all fairness, it is more of a "Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Last.fm, Skype Phone." The phone comes from a new manufacturer called I...
Not long ago we told users that Facebook was probably not going to join MySpace in the Android Market because of the relationship with Google. There were even claims that Facebook executives were s...
The densely-packed Facebook Marketing Bible contains three detailed sections: Tools for Guerilla Marketers, Tools for Advertisers, and Tools for Application Developers. Each part outlines the best ...
Facebook and MySpace Pages Might Impact College Admissions If you thought your Facebook and MySpace pages were just good for keeping in touch with friends, think again. We've shown how they can imp...
I'm on facebook. If you are too, let's be friends. Click here to link to my profile. And there's also a facebook group called "Stuff Christians Like." It's Saturday night so nobody is probably read...
As we noted yesterday, Election Day was a really big day for the spread of political information and influence through the social graph on Facebook. This afternoon, Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg rele...
We’re excited for more users to begin sharing and connecting with their Facebook friends around the Web with Facebook Connect. We wanted to give you an update since we first announced the availabil...
(Lil) Blue Cove is Actually “Green” - Lil Blue Cove is a new title by Green Patch, the makers of Lil Green Patch, the most popular Facebook game. See what approach the company is taking to expand i...
It could be your MySpace page, Facebook profile, blog — whatever. Cool, right? Well, sort of. The company behind this W-41, has a lot of hurdles to overcome if they're going to pull this off, the f...
The bad blood between Facebook and Google may go deeper than anyone has really realized to date. The spat became public earlier this year when Facebook banned Google's Friend Connect, theoretically...
Facebook is indeed working on a plan to deeply integrate streaming music into its site, I’ve learned. The details of a rumor published last week in the New York Post are, from my understanding, ba...
Reuters report that Facebook are keen to follow MySpace’s lead and get in the digital music business. Why the ‘me too’ strategy? I wouldn’t underestimate the effect of MySpace’s phenomenal streamin...
While most people familiar with Facebook have known stats like this to be anecdotally true for at least the last couple of years, a new report from Peter Schilling, the Director of IT at Amherst Co...
I have become a facebook addict. It is just what I needed--another way to procrastinate. So if you are on facebook and procrastinating too, let's do it together. Add me to your friends list so that...
It should be clear from recent reports regarding Facebook that folks are enchanted with the networking site. College students, for instance, seem more interested in peeping their friends' profiles ...
Earlier this week Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, had an opportunity to address an audience at the American Magazine Conference. At the event Sandberg highlighted many of the ...
Knowing how much people love to collect and share photos of their favorite street art images, we've set up a little application on Facebook where people can collect and share images that can be fou...
Facebook may be the world's largest and fastest growing social network, but apparently Germany remains a tough market to crack for the company. The site is just ranked 19th on Alexa’s Top 100 list ...
I actually have about 2.5 million (Facebook) friends who miss their old pages just as much as I do. Of course, our hatred for this version isn’t stopping all 2.5 million of us from using Facebook,...
The popular social networking site was down for maintenance for many users for some time Monday morning.
newVideoPlayer("/Brandee_hides_from_Kara.flv", 506, 423,""); BoomTown's Kara Swisher went to Palo Alto’s MacArthur Park restaurant for a luncheon hosted by Germany’s Hubert Burda Media yesterday, t...
"Social music" is on the rise even as the music industry suffers. An album release partnership with iLike could be the first of many music deals for Mark Zuckerberg's fast-growing company.
For anyone still holding on to the old Facebook profile format, enjoy it while you can. The social networking site announced Thursday that it will be migrating every profile to the updated version ...
Social.im, a desktop IM client built as an application on the Facebook Platform, has been acquired by mobile VOIP company iSkoot, TechCrunch reports. iSkoot likely plans to use Social.im’s client t...
I now share those links on my Facebook page since I have just too many things to share here on the blog—like all-important stories about Paris bakeries, Italian gents with fabulous hair who scoop ...
Every Facebook application developer faces a big choice early on in their design: whether to build the bulk of their apps’ canvas pages in FBML or iframes. While there are advantages and disadvanta...
After too much math, Lightspeed Venture Partners say Facebook earns between $28 million and $42 million allowing its users to buy icons as gifts for each other. Lightspeed came up with the revenue....
I was sent a copy of “Learning Facebook Application Development” by Hasin Hayder and Dr Mark Alexander Bain a while ago. The by-line description of the book is “A step-by-step tutorial for creating...
No official word yet from Mark Zuckerberg, but a Facebook rep has said that while it's received numerous requests, "at this point, we have not agreed to cooperate with any film project, but we are ...
Says Facebook, “Better insight about users means more effective ads, which leads to more conversions and success for your business.”"Advanced targeting on Facebook helps connect real customers to y...
As many users are aware, Facebook has been fighting mounting security threats in recent weeks. Developers and analysts alike want to know more about what’s happening and what Facebook is doing to c...
Proof of concept code examined by El Reg shows how the platform can be used to steal Facebook user's session cookies, deliver pop-up messages or change the layout of Facebook pages. With a little ...
This evening I was browsing Facebook and stumbled upon the following ad that I’ve pictured on the left. The ad displays one of my friends and a book advertisement suggesting that somehow the two th...
With a new social approach to advertising, Facebook hopes to present marketers with unique and coveted advertising opportunities, but there's a real risk that Facebook users, who already pretty muc...
newVideoPlayer("/Phelps_on_Facebook.flv", 506, 423,""); Long-torsoed anatomy model Michael Phelps has won more gold medals in one Olympics than anyone before him. That's not the only record he's se...
A little over a month ago, a mini-trend among Obama supporters took off on Facebook where users changed their middle names to Hussein as a sign of solidarity with the Democratic nominee whose midd...
She joined Facebook last year, when she moved to her most recent nursing home in Bradford, England. The staff there set up a Facebook group about her, and posted a video of her winning the gold in ...
Facebook has been sued in California's North District Court over the company's controversial Beacon advertising program, which tracked users' commercial activity on the Web and shared that informat...
Back in November of last year, a massive backlash ensued against Facebook for its failed attempt at releasing Beacon. Within weeks, the company decided to make the program opt-in, bowing to critics...
After the recent outbreak of a worm that hacked user Facebook accounts and disseminated through users contacts, Facebook responded with a post with advice to users on general tips about web securit...
According to a report in the International Herald Tribune, Facebook tried to acquire the popular German social network StudiVZ. When those negotiations ended without a deal, Facebook decided to sue...
If you love both Facebook and Adobe AIR, then you're going to love these three new AIR apps for your desktop: Facedesk, Zebr, and Flair. Facedesk is a standalone application that lets you use Faceb...
Facebook head of security Max Kelly, a former FBI computer forensics examiner, wrote a blog post tonight addressing the worm attacks on Facebook we wrote about earlier today. His advice to Facebook...
I took the plunge and created a Facebook profile a few weeks ago. I am still trying to decide if it’s worth the time. I suspect many legal professionals, from large firm lawyers to CIOs are asking ...
... boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the world – a huge potential just waiting to be tapped by foreign social networks. The world's two largest social networks, MySpace and F...
It does come as a surprise to me to see how high the Barack Obama Facebook page ranks on Google. Assuming the second result Google displays is the most popular page associated with Facebook, this i...
According to Computerworld, there is a new type of security vulnerability on Facebook that is exploited via spoof image file called a “GIFAR”. A GIFAR is a Java file which is packaged as an image....
Last week at Facebook’s f8 developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg formally announced Facebook Connect, Facebook’s new program that extends the Facebook Platform to any website that wants to inte...
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Using the new pilot program from a company called Involver, Kiva has launched a video campaign on Facebook to draw users to their site to lend directly to these developing nations. The video even ...
Of the buzz that is being generated regarding the upcoming Facebook F8 Conference, one that hasn’t yet been explored is the possibility of an announcement about a new Mobile platform. As of curren...
In April, I mentioned here on the blog that I was creating a Facebook page. Well, today, Russ Rankin (from LifeWay Communications) emailed me to tell me that I have 666 friends. This is not good an...
For users of the Windows Mobile platform, visiting Facebook while on the go meant loading up the mobile web page in their device's browser. Meanwhile, Blackberry users have had their own downloada...
Shares - You could use Facebook to market properties to a select group or share properties with your friends . A handy bookmarklet lets you add external links to your Shares. You could add a link t...
As Eric Bakovic reported here last year, Facebook uses they as a singular pronoun when the gender of the user is not known, leading to news feed items like: "Pat Jones added Prince to their favorit...
The land where Google and MySpace is losing to local competitors.
... exactly the same things that NewsJunk.com says through Twitter. Here’s how to… 1. Search for “John Newsjunk” then “add as friend”. 2. We’ll approve all friend requests. 3. You can follow NewsJu...
He told me, which I used in this piece today, that Facebook users are leaving for services like Twitter and other startups such as FriendFeed etc. I assented without challenging this for a couple r...
If the Rangers were in fact having a homecoming in Harlem, they'd probably arrange it via Twitter, text messages and perhaps a Facebook group. Idea #1: When I sit down to pound this out, the whole ...
It’s been almost 2 months since the ASL crew introduced our readers to the good, the bad and the ugly sides of Facebook Chat. Now that it has spread to the profiles of every Facebook user, we want...
Anyone who uses Facebook knows how addictive it is. It was recently ranked by M:Metrics as one of the sites people visit most often on their mobile devices. Palm Centro and Treo smartphone users ca...
Question: How To Customize Facebook Signature? Answer: It’s simple and you can use Facebook Badge to your sites. Instructions are given below: Facebook Badge Customization Click to “Create Badge” S...
But those attending a developer conference put on by Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) this week aren't taking sides--at least for now--despite an imminent site redesign by Facebook that could...
Facebook is essentially drafting its user base as an unpaid focus group for the various organizations that advertise on its pages. This will make Facebook more valuable to marketers at the expense ...
Late last year I dipped my toe in the deep water that is Facebook. It was interesting to catch up with friends I hadn’t contacted in a while but that’s as far as the interest went for me. After a w...
If you've got a Facebook account, but you'd like to do more with it, this is the for you. This will be entirely online, so you can sit in your pajamas in your living room and participate! We'll co...
The Coors integrated marketing campaign around Code Blue will be extending into Facebook as well. A nifty Facebook application will let you invite friends to a local bar at 4:53pm. The Facebook app...
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch first broke news about Facebook turning into an open source platform, and the possibility that this could be happening within the next few days. Facebook confirmed t...
I didn't realize that Saskatoon was a hotbed of software development, but that's where a Facebook real estate application was developed by Point2 Technologies. Point2, a 100-person company that al...
I turned to Google, and discovered the Facebook app Most Eligible Singles. It looks pretty silly, but once you add it, there’s an option on the app page to show your single friends. I have shockin...
In April, Facebook announced that it would help users channel external activities into their Facebook Mini-Feed. That was the beginning of Facebook’s play to channel the social web into your lifest...
Facebook, on the other hand, has already captured the collective mind share of the mainstream and can take the good set forth by early adopter hits and repackage them in ways that their users are m...
Facebook users can now import YouTube, StumbleUpon, Pandora, Hulu, Last.fm, and Google Reader into the social network's Mini-Feed. By doing this, Facebook users will be opening up their actions at ...
Come on, you know you have those Facebook friends whose profile pages look like their MySpace exploded: their profile takes forever to load, their page is six “page downs” long (well, longer, but y...
We’re here at Facebook this morning for a briefing on the new profile redesign. We’ll be live blogging throughout this morning’s session.
GameFly, the by-mail game rental service, is testing different waters with its new GamePie social networking application launching today for Facebook. GamePie is designed to become the gaming commu...
Starting in late 2007 Facebook began instituting its media strategy in earnest with Facebook Pages. According to Facebook pages offer "a unique experience where users can become more deeply connect...
Facebook will soon announce on its developer blog that it’s working on a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat. The interface will allow users to talk to their Facebook friends using any Jabber-e...
In my previous post in this series, I made the case that creating a sustainable Facebook presence for your business is best accomplished by bringing in content you already create. To accomplish thi...
Facebook CTO and long time friend of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Adam D’Angelo, is leaving the company, Kara Swisher is reporting tonight. D’Angelo told co-workers in a letter Friday that he’s ready for ...
This week’s chatter that Microsoft may have approached Facebook to discuss a possible takeover seems a bit far-fetched. Maybe Microsoft should be inquiring about getting a partial rebate on its $24...
On Facebook, profiles have always been reserved to individuals. Some institutions learned it the hard way by having their institutional profiles taken down. Before Facebook Pages were launched, gro...
This year, there was a new phrase going around the circuit -- mostly at the hostel computers with free Internet access: "Are you on Facebook?" Instead of writing down an email address to write to,...
Breaking: Facebook and 49 Attorney Generals Join Forces: As part of an ongoing joint effort with the Attorneys General of 49 states and DC around online safety, Facebook has agreed to continue and ...
Wondering why Microsoft's search isn't being promoted on Facebook? Greg Sterling has noted this odd absence a couple of times, such as in his article today on a possible Microsoft purchase of Faceb...
Though Bill Gates was out there telling people Microsoft is not interested in making non-Yahoo acquisitions right now (at least in the search/social world), word comes that Microsoft bankers have ...
Google has lost another senior executive to Facebook with the departure of the search giant's VP of global communications. Elliot Schrage, Google's VP of global communications and public affairs is...
Over the weekend, a chart from the Flowing Data blog "revealed" that Facebook applications, on the whole, are silly. Much of the discussion that followed was of the patronizing "see, we told you Fa...
Facebook is just for fun (see new chart from FlowingData, seen through TechCrunch). Slogans022. Speaking of Yahoo (now that Microsoft has walked away, see TechCrunch). I've never understood Yahoo....
Kara Swisher has a post up arguing that Facebook is still for kids. She uses a graph which charts the number of applications for each category. On that chart, the “Just for Fun” category dominates ...
As most Facebook Platform developers are aware, a major ongoing project at Facebook right now is the profile redesign. While the redesigned profile page will not be released to developers or users ...
Refresh Partners, a company that provides end-to-end marketing solutions for Facebook, Bebo and MySpace applications, is launching Refresh Analytics. This new segment of the Refresh brand actually ...
Facebook launched their chat feature last week and many are calling the creation another brilliant, inevitable step toward Facebook becoming the world’s next operating system. But while it was cert...
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