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Facebook is the second largest social network on the web, behind only MySpace in terms of traffic. Primarily focused on high school to college students, Facebook has been gaining market share, and...
Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren't Facebook. You might post photo albums using Flickr or Picasa, for example, instead of on Facebook. There are a lot of good sites out there, un...
At Facebook we love tools that allow you to see what people around the globe are searching for or discussing on blogs, such as Google Trends or Technorati. We thought it would be cool to show tren...
Google Apps & Salesforce Apps = Business Apps. Eric Schmidt from Google discusses the connection of Google apps and Saleforce.com New and interesting opportunities now exist for companies to build ...
Facebook IM Rolls Live in Silicon Valley & NYC: OK let me just say that we finally saw the facebook IM service live in Silicon Valley. Our first impressions: Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Sweet. Simple...
Excerpt from an article in Search Unified Communications: Despite facebooks enormous presence, the site (facebook) is still generally off the radar when it comes to acknowledging its role in modern...
Ping.FM Rating: 4 out of 5 stars More and more people are participating on multiple social networks. The challenge of updating your status has become time consuming and cumbersome when you are want...
Is is now official. Facebook has officially launched their instant message system to the entire network of 70+ million users starting 2 hours ago. Facebook started rolling the IM service out slowly...
Facebook has finally rolled out its new chat feature to all users. That means you can chat with anyone on your Facebook contact list if the two of you are logged into the Facebook web page at the ...
Sorry I just can’t help myself. For all those waiting for me to post my true thought on Facebook this video sums them all up but my words are a bit stronger. Perhaps not a good idea to show it to ...
BBC NewsIsraeli soldier jailed for Facebook photoVNUNet.com, UK - Apr 24, 2008A member of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has been jailed for 19 days after posting a picture of himself on Facebook...
Egypt: Woman Detained for Promoting General Strike On Facebook ...AllAfrica.com, Washington - Apr 24, 2008Abdelfattah was first detained on 6 April, after she posted a call for a general strike on ...
After the keynote frenzy this morning, the session that stood out for me was Facebook Marketing: Best Practices with Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester Research as moderator, Evan Mager from AKQA, Holl...
AppscoutMySpace Applications Now Available to AllTechtree.com, India - 19 hours agoApplications, up until now have been the show-ground for FaceBook. With thousands of applications to choose from,...
BBC NewsFacebook to track Darfur suspectsBBC News, UK - 16 hours agoA group hunting war crime suspects has turned to the social networking site Facebook to try to find two Sudanese men sought for c...
But last December they made the tough choice to quit it all and go full time for their own side project, a quickly growing little Facebook application called “Friends For Sale”. That project has gr...
Facebook these days is doing everything in its power to imitate Google, recruiting the search giant’s sales people, poaching its senior executives and — most importantly — using infrastructure as a...
Serious Business, Inc., makers of popular Facebook social game Friends For Sale, has raised a $4 million Series A venture round from Lightspeed Venture Partners at an undisclosed “healthy double-di...
Looks like the venture funding is still flowing for Facebook applications. The immensely popular Friends for Sale application has received $4 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners. At its basic...
National Review OnlineDNC Research Director Offers 'McCain Is So Old' Joke on Facebook PageNational Review Online, NY - 12 hours agoA sharp-eyed Campaign Spot reader was looking at Gehrke's Facebo...
TechCrunch has a story on a recently funded Facebook app which, frankly, seems stupid. Buying and selling ‘friends’ as ‘pets’. People have already sold me somehow on Facebook, and I just ignore it....
Earthtimes (press release)BofA targets small biz with Web network opportunityBizjournals.com, NC - 8 hours agoBut is the bank ready to take on social networking sites such as Facebook? When it come...
Facebook Faceoff: Parents Peer Into Kids' Online LivesWJLA, DC - 5 hours ago"I really enjoy looking at the photos," said 17-year-old Tess Lippincott, a high school junior who checks her Facebook.co...
CBC.caWho Needs Another Social Network?New York Times, United States - 5 hours agoBut it is clear that MySpace and Facebook (and Bebo in the United Kingdom) remain firmly on top of the social netwo...
Dairy to dollars: Yogurt helps startup win social networkersBizjournals.com, NC - 4 hours agoThey've come up with 15, from PuppyPix on MySpace to You and Me?, a real-time dating application, on Fac...
Rockland Dems get Facebook siteLower Hudson Journal news, NY - 1 hour agoThat's what the Rockland County Democratic Committee was banking on when it recently signed up as a member on Facebook.com, ...
As Facebook application developers experiment with different ad networks for the Facebook Platform (like Social Media, Lookery, Buddy Media, Cubics, fbExchange, RockYou, Offerpal Media, Google AdSe...
BBC NewsActivists use Facebook and Google Earth to track Darfur's wanted menTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Apr 27, 2008By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi Activists campaigning for the arrest of alleged ...
Two weeks after it removed per-story (thumbs up/thumbs down) preferences from the News Feed, Facebook today further simplified the News Feed interface by removing the Preferences link. News Feed Pr...
ABC NewsMore spam appearing on social networksSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - Apr 27, 2008Consider Facebook, the social network started four years ago for Harvard students that has blossomed into a...
This post is in response to Inside Facebook’s post entitled, What CPM is your app making? As someone who is in charge of quite a bit of digital advertising budget from 12 brands ranging from consum...
I've finally been dragged into 2.0, not exactly kicking and screaming but certainly clueless. Which is another way to say I've got a Facebook page now and could use some Friends. So if you're out t...
Okay, so I finally got my Facebook page updated and set up for visitors. Web 2.0, here I come! And, I joined the I ::heart:: Evil Beet group! You should, too! If you haven’t yet become my MySpace f...
With over 670000 Daily Active Users, Scrabulous has become a case study for Facebook application and social game developers around the world. Despite increasing constraints on communication channel...
ABC NewsWhen Boss Wants You To Be A Facebook FriendHartford Courant, United States - 11 hours agoIn the early days, the social-networking site Facebook had the feel of an exclusive club. You needed...
ForbesIn Pictures: The Faces Behind FacebookForbes, NY - 9 hours agoThat site became Facebook, now the world’s second-largest social network with 70 million members. The company, meanwhile, has rec...
Last week we talked to the head of one of the most successful Facebook app companies -- we won't disclose his name or product, but he's got millions of users. How's business? Great. How's revenue? ...
Facebook Adds Chat; Count Me Out (For Now)Washington Post, United States - 8 hours agoAt the start of this month, the social-networking site Facebook began adding an instant-messaging application. ...
Facebook Grows UpForbes, NY - 6 hours agoFacebook is maturing from a teenager prone to mistakes to a sophisticated adult who knows how to get around the block. Over the past year, ...
People wonder why Facebook is getting nasty PR while last year everyone was singing its praises. Here's why. Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz is a CEO of VodPod.tv in Europe. Not a spammer. Not an idiot. N...
So I decided to cave in and say yes to patients waiting in the accumulating pile of friend requests at my Facebook account. Haven’t been to Facebook in awhile, so I was also curious to see if “frie...
Business Wire (press release)Hope Blooms Eternal as New Website Brings Charitable Giving to the ...Business Wire (press release), CA - 5 hours agoLITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Facebook. MySpa...
Facebook is at the top of the list, but it is valued at $9 billion instead of the $15 billion that Microsoft’s investment put on the company. Why? Because everyone knows that the $15 billion is to...
Multichannel NewsWarner Bros. Unveils TheWB.com, KidsWB.comBroadcasting & Cable, NY - 4 hours agoTV Group that includes a partnership with social-networking site Facebook. TheWB.com, set to launch ...
Yesterday there was a lot of discussion surrounding the CPMs that Facebook application developers are receiving via various ad networks. While I am working on my own project to more accurately mon...
University of Buffalo Guard Suspended for 'Write My Paper' Facebook AdAOL SPORTS, NY - 2 hours agoAside from demonstrating that the University of Buffalo admits students who lack a grasp of basic g...
U.S. News & World ReportFormer FEMA Director Brown Is Making a Facebook ComebackU.S. News & World Report, DC - 1 hour agoThat's because he asked and I—and many other reporters—have clicked "confirm...
Facebook Flyer Pro advertising platform. I’ve been poking around with Facebook recently and recent talk about Facebook’s valuation inspired me to update my report. Facebook has improved their […]...
Facebook Chat goes mainstreamSmartCompany.com.au, Australia - 33 minutes agoThe instant messaging feature appears at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen when a person logs into their Faceboo...
Facebook offers free way to reach ideal customersTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 18 minutes agoThousands of small businesses are signing up to Facebook's new advertising platform that enables fi...
Yearbook takes photos from FacebookASU Herald, AR - 28 minutes agoAccording to Facebook's online terms and conditions, materials posted on its site can not be used for any purposes without permissi...
On Facebook, users “friend” each other, and that permits messaging. Even then, if you blurt-market me, I’ll drop you. I can’t do that to you in my inbox, except for reporting you as spam, and even...
Use Facebook for work. SeriouslyMid-Day Mumbai, India - 26 minutes agoThe accent is on its application gallery, MySpace Apps, one of competitor Facebook’s mainstays. The site has also tied up with ...
Facebook Chat is cool, at least it allows you to send instant messages to online Facebook contacts. However I’m not really a fan of the chat bar being at the bottom of the page, what if I’ve left F...
CNET BlogsReport: Is Zillow worth $225 million?Seattle Post Intelligencer - 3 hours agoSilicon Alley Insider puts together a list of the most valuable private Internet companies, with Facebook ($9 ...
Always interested in how the experts do it, I got a chance to sit through a demo of how 18 year old Sarah sorts her Facebook friends. From using the limited profile feature to reduce exposure to sp...
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...
Vancouver police go to YouTube and Facebook to recruitThe Province, Canada - 56 minutes agoVANCOUVER - Desperate times for call for desperate measures, so the Vancouver Police Department is startin...
Multichannel NewsWarner Bros. Bets Big on Web Ads With TheWB.com, KidsWBClickZ News, NY - 52 minutes agoIn addition to its standalone presence, the site will reside within Facebook as an app and wi...
I am participating in a research project @ UW that seeks to map Facebook friend networks using an application similar to Nexus. The project is called “FBLEND” (Facebook Longitudinal E-Network Datas...
From behind South China Morning Post’s paid firewall, here’s an article about a university student’s Facebook account mysteriously being disabled. No firm proof yet about why it was disabled but i...
Vancouver police recruit online using YouTube, FacebookMetro Canada - Vancouver, Canada - 47 minutes agoSteve Schnitzer said yesterday that the VPD’s newly launched Facebook page and YouTube channe...
'"Like that strange ocean river first noted and described in facebook and the long route which led to serious objection. Facebook consisted of no account, mere valueless items in the oven and was g...
CNET BlogsSilicon Alley Insider creates start-up valuation indexCNET News.com, CA - 1 hour agoHow much is Facebook, Wikipedia, or Twitter worth? Silicon Alley Insider is attempting to crack the mys...
Facebook painArabianBusiness.com, United Arab Emirates - 17 minutes agoby Matt Wade on Monday, 28 April 2008 When particular friends sign-up to Facebook this can lead to a huge leap in the number o...
Egyptians use Facebook to deter censorshipMiddle East Times, Egypt - 9 minutes ago(Photo by KRT via Newscom) CAIRO -- Egyptians are using the online social networking tool Facebook to defy the gove...
Universities Look to Facebook to Expand Alumni ConnectionsGeorgetown University The Hoya, DC - 10 minutes agoThough not a profile-based network akin to Facebook or MySpace , Hoyas Online, managed b...
ITBusiness.caUsing Facebook for fun and business – a newbie's guideITBusiness.ca, Canada - 2 minutes agoby Julie Sartain There's a lot of buzz about Facebook, but what is it, exactly? What does it ...
The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg set up the social networking site with the aim of enabling him and his university friends to keep in touch and share photos with one another. The site very ...
Facebook: Making the world a better place?High Position, UK - 8 minutes agoThe founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg set up the social networking site with the aim of enabling him and his university...
With the full launch of Facebook Chat last week, Facebook users were introduced to a new interface for receiving notifications. While notifications used to be presented in a kind of restricted “inb...
Facebook Grows UpForbes, NY - 17 minutes agoFacebook is maturing from a teenager prone to mistakes to a sophisticated adult who knows how to get around the block. Over the past year, ...
ABC NewsSocial Networking and Open Source: Cut From the Same ClothLinuxInsider.com, CA - 2 hours agoWith the opening of Facebook's application programming interface and the OpenSocial initiative sp...
Faces of FacebookSify, India - 7 minutes agoBurlingame, Calif: Facebook is maturing from a teenager prone to mistakes to a sophisticated adult who knows how to get around the block. ...
Social Media Networks’ Facebook Applications Judged ‘Most ...Business Wire (press release), CA - 1 hour agoLAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--San Francisco-based Social Media Networks, developer of applic...
Facebook + Personality = Perfect MatchPR Newswire (press release), NY - 43 minutes agoNew Facebook application 'What's Your Personality Type?' gives every member their own 'personality type' result...
Video hosting service Viddler is out today with a new Facebook application which I have to admit is pretty damn slick. It replicates the majority of functionality from Viddler.com into Facebook. Vi...
CellSpin Launches The First MySpace and Facebook Instant Mobile ...Earthtimes (press release), UK - 1 hour agoUsers no longer have to wait to get on their computers to post on their Facebook and My...
I wrote about Facebook here, in November, 2005, just a few weeks after I had created my own Facebook account. At that time, Facebook was available only to university students, faculty, and staff -...
Soon after Facebook Chat showed up on my Facebook page, I emailed Seth Sternberg, one of the founders of Meebo, and asked if he'd be pulling Facebook Chat into Meebo. Seth replied: "Facebook has s...
Facebook + Personality = Perfect MatchPR Newswire (press release), NY - 1 hour agoNew Facebook application 'What's Your Personality Type?' gives every member their own 'personality type' results to...
Meebo and Facebook ChatConde Nast Portfolio, NY - 1 hour agoSoon after Facebook Chat showed up on my Facebook page, I emailed Seth Sternberg, one of the founders of Meebo, and asked if he'd be pull...
I've now had a Facebook profile for about 10 days or so. If you ever wonder if your students will find your Facebook profile, should you decide to put one up, the answer is a resounding yes. Every ...
At the top of the list was Facebook, bringing in a valuation of $9 billion. Didn’t Microsoft value Facebook at $15 billion though? Well yes but as most people know, Microsoft over-valued Facebook. ...
Get instant mobile access to Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, Flickr ...Shiny Shiny, UK - 56 minutes agoEither that, or they feel like they've missed out if they haven't visited their Facebook account a...
Visit NAFSA's recently launched Facebook page at www.nafsa.org/facebook. You do not need a Facebook account to view this page, but you do need a Facebook account if you'd like to become a "Fan" of ...
Once you get above a certain age, maybe you shouldn't have a MySpace or Facebook page at all, and you should probably really not have one if you have a job where anyone anywhere might Google you. Y...
There are many ways that the millions of users of twitter update and publish content to the service. Some use the web, some use a desktop app, some SMS, some use their iPhone, etc. We would like t...
Since we have a plug-in available to exercise the Facebook API (see Part 1), the next step is to create a 'org.eclipse.facebook.ui' plug-in that will exercise that API. What I generally do when tes...
Twitter is continuing to experience rapid growth in the last quarter. According to web analytics company hitwise twitter Internet visits are up 8 fold. In the past three months, visits have more th...
Tech DigestFriends Reunited relaunches - it's Facebook for pensionersTech Digest, UK - 9 minutes agoWell, well, well, look who's come crawling back after being completely blown out of the water by ...
When Is It Not OK to Have a Facebook Page?GeekSugar.com, CA - 58 minutes agoIn Washington DC, some young teachers are taking that whole MySpace thing a little too literally and customizing their Fa...
Lately, I've been working a lot on Facebook, exploring its usefulness as a marketing tool and a part of our company's brand. Some may think that I'm way behind the times, but I would disagree. I th...
Okay, I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. I am still learning but I do have somethings that I wish they would change or at least upgrade. Even Myspace is doing somethings better… Yes I d...
Facebook enlists users to translate social networking siteColumbia Daily Tribune, MO - 25 minutes agoTOKYO (AP) - The three-year-old social networking phenomenon Facebook, worth more than $15 billi...
I'll focus on Facebook, which is top of the pile and theoretically worth $9bn, or c 25x a theoretical $350m 2008/9 revenue. Facebook, like all private companies, are a riddle within an enigma etc e...
Facebook vs. MyspaceRIC The Anchor, RI - 50 minutes agoFacebook vs. Myspace is an epic battle that has been raging since Facebook arrived on the scene. It used to be that Myspace was the only cool ...
SearchViewsFacebook: Worth Two Times Mozilla?SearchViews, NY - 5 minutes agoRegardless, it is difficult to accept a 25x revenue valuation for Facebook common stock, given that Google trades at betw...
CNET BlogsRumor: Social bookmarking site Mister Wong acquires Lifestream.fm?CNET News.com, CA - 1 hour agoShe's happily addicted to fun social media tools from Twitter to Yelp to Facebook, sends an...
PoliticoIntroducing a Facebook-esque site for wonksPolitico, DC - 46 minutes agoThe idea was to have a Facebook-esque site for the Hill. It’s not that far-fetched, since the incredibly popular netw...
Boy am I sick and friggin’ tired of hearing about how Facebook is worth $15 billion dollars! A lot of the business blogs I keep up with keep throwing this figure around and it is becoming quite an ...
Google paid $900m for the advertising rights to MySpace (the #1 social network that still absolutely spanks Facebook in terms of unique visitors despite being the ugliest site in the […]
Softbank Buys Into Chinese Facebook SitePacific Epoch (subscription), Hong Kong - 46 minutes agoXiaonei, a Facebook clone for China that Oak Pacific acquired in 2007, is now the company’s major fo...
Professors utilize Facebook for social networkingRoyal Purple News, WI - 31 minutes agoSince Facebook's inception in February 2004, the online social network has become an addiction for millions of...
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Personally I have no idea what may cause this because I have no problems using Facebook on Sony Ericsson K800i. However, there can be other forum members or someone from OM team who knows what is ...
Last week I covered a strategy for dreaming up your next Facebook application. This week leads me into the second round of considerations when making an application. What language should you code i...
Canoe.caHow non-profits are using social networking to raise money and ...Chicago Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoOut-of-town friends who couldn't attend the show ended up making donations and t...
Canoe.caCellSpin updates social sites with mobile phonesComputerworld, Norway - 12 hours ago... a new feature that lets users post audio, video, still images, and text from mobile telephones to so...
The feds: Your next friend on Facebook?Toronto Star, Canada - 34 minutes agoOTTAWA–Afghanistan Facebook groups, scientist-run climate-change blogs and YouTube spots on everything from the dangers ...
Data Portability Drops the Ball on Branding: The big movement about allowing your data and social graph connections to become portable has become a big issue recently in the social network space. T...
CreativematchFacebook rates your beauty for Nip/TuckCreativematch, UK - 43 minutes agoCreative agency Ralph has created a Facebook application for FX UK to promote the fifth series of Nip/Tuck, the...
Tony Hirst is presenting on the FaceBook application in a pink “on-brand” T-shirt to contrast with his off-brand work on Facebook. Facebook is a huge success (though I feel some people I know are d...
If I had been paying attention on April 15th, instead of swanning around New Zealand, I would have noticed that Facebook had launched what amounts to an elementary keyword research tool... and as I...
Distinctive Developments 'not abandoning mobile' with Facebook gamePocket Gamer, UK - 25 minutes agoby Rob Hearn Last week, we told you that Distinctive Developments has published an application ca...
FX UK launches Facebook app to promote Nip/TuckBrand Republic (subscription), UK - 19 minutes agoby Jacquie Bowser Brand Republic 30-Apr-08, 11:40 LONDON - Satellite TV channel FX UK has launched a...
Twitter updates the location attribute of the authenticating user, as displayed on the side of their profile and returned in various API methods. This is good news as now you can do quite a few add...
What we learn here isn't just relevant to Facebook. The psychology that drives Facebook relates to other online success stories, including those blockbusters yet to be invented." –--Stanford profes...
BJ Fogg, who teaches the Psychology of Facebook course at Stanford , has kindly written by way of a comment to an earlier post, that Mouse Trap readers who wish to know more about the project and w...
Facebook and Duet are Perfect MatchPR Web (press release), WA - 7 minutes agoNew Facebook application ”What’s Your Personality Type?” gives every member their own ‘personality type’ results to sha...
Launch of Devex.com - Online Community Uses Wiki and Facebook-like ...Earthtimes (press release), UK - 1 hour ago... a website that applies web 2.0 tools, such as wiki and Facebook-like technologie...
Launch of Devex.com - Online Community Uses Wiki and Facebook-like ...Biloxi Sun Herald, USA - 4 minutes ago... a website that applies web 2.0 tools, such as wiki and Facebook-like technologies, t...
Egypt's Facebook GirlMenassat, Lebanon - 10 minutes agoThe case of Esra'a Abdel Fatah, the 27-year-old Egyptian girl who was arrested for creating a Facebook group for the April 6 strike, is indica...
Nip/Tuck launches Facebook applicationmad.co.uk, UK - 16 minutes agoFox International Channels UK has appointed digital agency Ralph to create a Facebook application to promote its fifth series of ...
Obama De-friends Wright on FacebookHuffington Post, NY - 10 minutes agoJeremiah Wright on Facebook. Sen. Obama's comments about Rev. Wright on Tuesday seemed to indicate that a total rift with his ...
“The survey warns that Facebook and YouTube users log on primarily for entertainment and recreation purposes and would not expect, or necessarily want, to meet official government missives in this...
Obama De-friends Wright on FacebookBorowitz Report (satire) - 54 minutes agoJeremiah Wright on Facebook. Sen. Obama’s comments about Rev. Wright on Tuesday seemed to indicate that a total rift with...
Facebook uses a Comet and JSON approach to receive incoming messages. Comet is a technique where you open a long running HTTP connection to a server (usually AJAX). The connection stays open until ...
Many social software experts talk about mapping real world social behaviours onto online spaces. This is a bit of the reverse and shows why some (some would say many) things in Facebook just don't ...
For those of you who don’t know, Twitter is sort of a cross between a blog and a Facebook status update. Except, it’s more like a Facebook status update on crack, only more addictive. Also, you onl...
Facebook application building service launchesMacworld UK, UK - 1 hour agoBAPPZ is a new UK start-up company that’s offering to build Facebook applications for a fee. BAPPZ is a new UK start-up com...
Beth put it in her Facebook updates (using Twitter to update her Status as she tweets). In just one day, I’ve already had more than 58 views today and about 45 yesterday (some can be due to Twitter...
Nip/Tuck Facebook app tells you how ugly you are (with math)CNET Blogs, CA - 30 minutes agoBy Josh Lowensohn – April 30, 2008, 9:42 AM PDT Normally I steer clear from writing about Facebook apps th...
The British haven't discovered the Internet yet, but that doesn't mean they can't enjoy Facebook. In today's video we get to see British people, in their natural habitat, enjoying their own real-li...
Aljazeera.netEgypt leader raises salaries 30 percent after strike threatThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoThe call for a May 4 strike was initiated by a group of young Egyptian activists on the soci...
British make fun of Facebook, failNorth by Northwestern, IL - 11 minutes agoCheck out this video about Facebook. “Tip top of the morning mate! I uploaded this dinger of a video to YouTube, about ho...
A Facebook group has been set up to coordinate a mail-in blitz to CBC in support of Jpod on May 19th. The campaigners are suggested fans send in a little Lego man or woman in honour of the book’s c...
Facebook Hockey Pools: New Approach to an Old TraditionCanada NewsWire (press release), Canada - 42 minutes agoHalf a Million Turn to Facebook App to Make Their Picks VANCOUVER, April 30 /CNW/ - C...
The wildly popular Free Gifts Application on Facebook was recently acquired by Social Gaming Network SGN. Free gifts was the brainchild of Zach Allia. I had a chance to chat briefly with Zach last ...
The wildly popular Free Gifts Application on Facebook was recently acquired by Social Gaming Network SGN. Free gifts was the brainchild of Zach Allia. I had a chance to chat briefly with Zach last ...
Ifbyphone "Phone-Me-Now" Lets Facebook Users Call for FreeTMC Net, CT - 5 minutes agoBy Stefania Viscusi Telephone application platform company, Ifbyphone (News - Alert), has announced a new Facebo...
The web gurus over at cbc.ca have seen the future, and it is Facebook, or Crackbook as most of us know it. The application is called Seen This? and by adding it you get a news feed on your Facebook...
Telegraph.co.ukFacebook 'more effective than emergency services in a disaster'Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 54 minutes agoBy Andy Bloxham Social networking websites such as Facebook are more ef...
PhysOrg.comFifteen years of the Web, and Facebook 15 years from nowIT World Canada Blogs, Canada - 53 minutes agoWe still, however, might end up with a Facebook Web. Although I set up a Facebook pr...
Steve Gordon and Chris Parker from the Windows Live team talk about the newly released Facebook application that brings Windows Live Messenger to Facebook. What this means is that you'll be able to...
Companies turn to Facebook in search of staffThe Asian Pacific Post, Canada - 21 minutes agoWhy not try searching on Facebook? Many companies have started to use Facebook, a popular social networki...
Facebook just deleted the profiles for Ali Barrett, Simon Beals, Devon Ross and Jory Goudge. Coincidentally these are all of the characters I mentioned during last night’s CaseCamp presentatly. App...
Wednesday, 30 April 2008 Facebook application building service ...Macworld UK, UK - 18 minutes agoBAPPZ is a new UK start-up company that’s offering to build Facebook applications for a fee. BAPPZ ...
Facebook chat 'not revolutionary'CCL Online, UK - 1 hour agoThe new chat feature found on social-networking website Facebook should be popular with users, but such applications have been seen befor...
According to a study that is to be published in New Scientist magazine tomorrow, Facebook and Wikipedia are better at getting crucial information out during emergencies than either government agenc...
Xiaonei, the Facebook of China, raises $430M — better funded than ...VentureBeat, CA - 1 hour agoXiaonei, the company that likes to call itself the “Facebook of China” has raised a whopping $430 mi...
Africa: Why Continent May Never Produce a FacebookAllAfrica.com, Washington - 45 minutes ago... internationally famed corporations like Google, Yahoo, TicketAdvantage, CollegeHumor and Facebook whi...
Windows Live Messenger Facebook App Stinks: I would expect a better solution from Microsoft. It just goes to show how difficult it can be for very sophisticated companies that try to shoehorn a dep...
Microsoft has just launched a Live Messenger Application on facebook. Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Windows Live Messenger Facebook App Stinks: I would expect a better solution from Microsoft. It just...
The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleges that by participating in Facebook's Beacon program, Blockbuster disclosed Harris's movie rental and sales records ...
Students created the now famous "I'm OK at VT" Facebook group a scant 20 minutes after the Wikipedia article and began using the social network to connect family and friends. (From personal experi...
Laughing Squid Facebook Page; Facebook Beacon Backlash, Leads To Apology & Opt-Out Option; Real Life Versions of Homer Simpson and Mario by Pixeloo; Facebook Launches Amazing New iPhone Application...
Laughing Squid Facebook Page; Facebook Beacon Backlash, Leads To Apology & Opt-Out Option; Real Life Versions of Homer Simpson and Mario by Pixeloo; Facebook Launches Amazing New iPhone Application...
Be wary of your Facebook: Profile could affect your job statusFairfield Mirror (subscription), CT - 31 minutes agoLook at Facebook pictures to make sure they are not too raunchy? Check. In the pas...
I don’t know anyone doing “serious stuff” on Facebook, and vampires and food fights are so last year. This is a real problem for Facebook and not only is it in their interests to do something about...
The company likes to call itself the Facebook of China, and we’d never guess why (screenshot below.) Now how did the song go again? here comes another…… Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets...
Kongregate to launch Facebook games, raises $3 million from Amazon ...VentureBeat, CA - 24 minutes agoThe company is announcing today that it will launch seven new games within a couple of weeks on...
BBC NewsIdentity 'at risk' on FacebookBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoBy Spencer Kelly Personal details of Facebook users could potentially be stolen, the BBC technology programme Click has found. The pop...
INVESTIGATE: Facebook con casting its netMirror.co.uk, UK - 46 minutes agoIt was only a matter of time, considering that the two largest - Facebook and MySpace - have around 200 million users betwe...
Facebook is the darling of the moment, allowing friends to stay in touch, post photos, and share fun little games and quizzes. And it also lets you keep your details private from the rest of the wo...
New York TimesStatus: Looking for Work on FacebookNew York Times, United States - 37 minutes agoYet sites like Facebook, Friendster and MySpace are evolving beyond their reputations as procrastina...
Facebook presidency?Washington Times, DC - 34 minutes agoBy Gary Andres Earlier this year, the users of Facebook elected an unknown 28-year-old French man named Arash Derambarsh as the first "world...
Earlier this week I finished building a Facebook application for them that displays a new teen Bible study on Facebook profiles every day. It also shows up in the left sidebar in Facebook so every ...
Facebook loophole 'open to identity thieves'Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 28 minutes agoBy Lucy Cockcroft A loophole on social networking site Facebook could allow identity thieves to access th...
I’m sure ya’ll have heard of Facebook, but check out studivz.net and xiaonei.com. Do you notice anything similar? Well, both sites are 100% knockoffs of Facebook. The interesting thing about both...
Google's Art of War — With FacebookTIME - 6 hours agoYou can think of iGoogle as part of the company's answer to Facebook. Facebook rocked Google's world last summer when it opened up its network t...
Facing FacebookAl-Ahram Weekly, Egypt - 6 hours agoRumours abound that the government is considering closing down access to Facebook, the website that has become a favourite venue for Egypt's disa...
Facebook Awareness...... you gotta be careful....... BBC exposes a fatal flaw in popular social networking program.
Essentially, if you’re the owner of a Facebook Group and want to convert the members of that group into “Fans” of your Facebook Page instead, you can fill out a request and Facebook will perform th...
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 ...
Q&A: Facebook responseBBC News, UK - 3 hours agoFollowing Click's investigation into the potential risk of identity theft by third-party applications on Facebook, the company gave the following res...
It’s hard to believe it’s already been two years since Inside Facebook was launched on April 22, 2006! Inside Facebook was the first blog dedicated to tracking Facebook and, one year later, the Fac...
Mobile Marketing NewsFacebook top of Vodafone's mobile webSilicon.com, UK - 2 hours agoBy Natasha Lomas The top two searches on the operator's mobile internet service - which launched last summer -...
BBC’s revelation of security issues with Facebook:. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7376738.stm. Technorati Tags: Facebook.
Yahoo and the Facebook dilemmaInfoWorld, CA - 58 minutes agoBut Neil McAllister, writing in Yahoo and the Facebook dilemma, has a few reservations: "I'm all for opening up online services to third ...
Xiaonei, the Chinese clone of Facebook, has raised a whopping $430 million, beating out Facebook in the size of their financing rounds. No word on the valuation at this point but the move was clear...
Scott Beale pointed out a pretty entertaining Facebook video. It’s definitely worth the two minutes spent watching it. Check it out below:
Facebook 'is a social utility, not a network'Bluhalo, UK - 7 minutes agoUser-generated online community Facebook views itself as a utility rather than a social network, the co-founder and editor o...
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 ...
CreativematchFox runs Nip/Tuck promo on FacebookNetimperative, UK - 2 hours agoDigital creative agency Ralph has been hired by Fox channel FX UK to create a new Facebook application to promote the ...
'Chinese Facebook' attracts major fundingiCrossing UK, UK - 51 minutes agoA Chinese social network that looks strikingly similar to Facebook has attracted investment of $430 million, reports Ventu...
Facebook used to beat criminalsPRWeek UK, UK - 25 minutes agoGreater Manchester Police is claiming to be the first police force in the country to use social networking site Facebook to fight crime....
Facebook 'learns hard lessons'BCS, UK - 2 hours agoA social media resource group has said that Facebook has had to learn some hard lessons in terms of refraining from being intrusive and invasive, ...
While there are several desktop instant messaging applications that allow you to chat with Facebook users, Digsby is one of the first 3rd party applications to add support for Facebook's new native...
While there are several desktop instant messaging applications that allow you to chat with Facebook users, Digsby is one of the first 3rd party applications to add support for Facebook's new native...
Facebook and privacyBBC News, UK - 25 minutes agoThey set out to explore just how much data is accessible to developers who make applications for Facebook. What they found was that it was relativel...
In January, everything went a little crazy because of a Facebook application that (if you believed the hype) force installed Zango, hijacked your PC, set fire to your house, killed your pets.....we...
Last week Facebook officially unveiled their much-anticipated instant messaging service. Called Facebook Chat, it works without installation of a separate software program. Instead, it uses a DHTML...
The BBC is warning people of evil Facebook applications that steal users’ personal data. This really isn’t anything new though. When you install applications on your profile, you are giving away ce...
Who needs a high school reunion when you've got Facebook?Bellevue Leader, NE - 27 minutes agoAs I was considering the possibilities, I remembered an acquaintance from high school who had recently s...
If you use Facebook, you may soon find yourself a victim of identity theft. Third party "applications" make it possible for bad seeds to get crucial personal information available on your profile, ...
There is, however, a shining light in the world of Facebook Applications and that is the smart folks who build custom Facebook applications for other people. The business model is sound: Get paid u...
A report on BBC's technology program, Click, has exposed yet another security flaw in Facebook - one that could comprise users' privacy. This particular hack involves using a Facebook application t...
The Utility BeltGoogle's Art of War — With FacebookTIME - 1 hour agoYou can think of iGoogle as part of the company's answer to Facebook. Facebook rocked Google's world last summer when it opened u...
Facebook is Big Business for Those Looking for Jobs, ClientsfindingDulcinea, New York - 30 minutes agoOnce primarily a social arena for college students, Facebook is now widely used as a job-huntin...
Facebook Applications Could Threaten User SecurityRedOrbit, TX - 18 minutes agoApplications such as games and quizzes on the popular social networking site Facebook could potentially be used by Web...
Build 28 (r14688) introduces Facebook Chat support! This is our first implementation so you can expect many improvements over the coming weeks. Please let us know if you run into any bugs so we can...
Twitter Solves a Murder… Not in the real world, but hey… they used it on CSI. From the show, as they are talking about Twitter: “People don’t expect privacy, they value openess.” “Whatever.” It’s ...
BBC develops data mining Facebook app to showcase site’s insecurityCrunchGear, NY - 1 hour agoI applaud the Beeb’s white hat hacking of Facebook. (Reminder: for all your black hat needs, look no f...
Digsby First to Support Facebook ChatMashable, CA - 49 minutes agoTo stay in line with its cool take on desktop communication, Digsby has just announced Facebook Chat support. I’ll go ahead and say...
When Facebook opened up its platform last year, a lot of developers were happy, the media hailed it as one of the smartest moves in social media, and the backlash from users was minimal, at least ...
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ClickZ NewsWould Anyone Pay to Network on Facebook?ClickZ News, NY - 41 minutes ago"There will probably be company-paid models for things like LinkedIn and Facebook," he continued. "There are eleme...
"There will probably be company-paid models for things like LinkedIn and Facebook," he continued. "There are elements of Facebook morphing to provide interesting networks...It's not consumer pay, b...
Fortunately for we Facebook users the BBC and ReadWriteWeb show a fundamental misunderstanding of what is happening, how applications can purportedly "steal" user information, and then proceed to ...
Andrews campaign staffer reprimanded over Facebook messageThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 35 minutes agoThe message was sent by campaign staffer Jay Lassiter through the online networking site Faceb...
Digsby Integrates Facebook ChatLifehacker Australia, Australia - 23 minutes agoThe popular up-and-coming chat application Digsby (original post) has integrated the newly released Facebook Chat. Dig...
Google CEO: Let our crawlers search FacebookBuilder AU, Australia - 1 hour agoBy Dan Farber, CNET News.com | 2008/05/02 09:34:02 Upset his company's Web crawlers are locked out of social networks l...
CellSpin launches the first MySpace and Facebook instant mobile appAntara, Indonesia - 14 minutes agoUsers no longer have to wait to get on their computers to post on their Facebook and MySpace pag...
Facebook 'for keeping friends, not making friends'Epiphany Search News, UK - 55 minutes agoSocial media site Facebook views itself as a service that complements existing friendships, rather than a...
BBC NewsBBC Reports Facebook VulnerabilityPC Magazine - 56 minutes agoFacebook allows users to write applications, but Click found that these applications could gather personal profile information ...
baKno announces MacPool 9.5 for Mac OS X: Now integrated with FacebookprMac (press release), TX - 1 hour agoVersion 9.5 introduces two new online deferred match options: Forum to play against well...
Generation FacebookMiddle East Online, UK - 26 minutes agoGeneration Facebook is the godchild of two important developments that took off over the past three years in Egypt - an increasingly bold b...
You can now chat with all your Facebook friends right from Digsby! This initial release includes all the basics - messaging, buddy icons, status, and status messages. We will add the ability to syn...
Why you can’t get “whatever you can get” on FacebookNorth by Northwestern, IL - 23 minutes agoBy Patrick St. Michel Being mysterious on Facebook is a mighty challenging task, given one of the main ...
Hooray for more distractions on FacebookDaily - University of Washington, WA - 28 minutes agoBy Dennis Tat Procrastinators and Facebook addicts, rejoice! Facebook has given us another wonderful too...
Poking fun at FacebookBBC News, UK - 13 minutes agoWhatever the problems over privacy, Facebook is still doing remarkably well in the UK. The latest figures from Nielsen show it's got 9.9 million ...
Twitter from Your Google Homepage: BeTwittered Rating: 3 out of 5 stars While doing some research we came across a lightweight widget that will easily allow you to drop a widget onto your iGoogle ...
Digsby Busts Chat Out of Facebook JailWired News - 19 minutes agoBy Scott Gilbertson May 02, 2008 | 7:19:06 AMCategories: Instant Messaging, software, Windows Just last month Facebook released its ...
Your Boss Wants to Be 'Friends' on Facebook?RedOrbit, TX - 58 minutes agoIn the early days, you needed a college e-mail address to join the social-networking site Facebook, so for its young users, ...
We keep hearing promises that there are developers, somwhere, working on geniunely useful apps for the site, but even if they never materialize, that's not a catastrophe for Facebook (or app-factor...
