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20100629

Google Exec Joins Facebook
Matthew Papakipos, who played a key role in the development of Google's Chrome operating system, is moving to Facebook as director of engineering.

Read about it and lots more here >>Facebook News

by Ruby - Comments: 2 - Views: 53
20100626

Pakistan Monitors Websites for Blasphemy
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Pakistan is monitoring seven major websites to block anti-Islamic content and links.

The Ministry of Information said Friday it is also outright blocking 17 other websites for alleged blasphemous material.

A Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesman, Khurram Mehran, said the sites that will be monitored are Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Amazon, MSN, Hotmail and Bing.

The measures...

by Ruby - Comments: 1 - Views: 58
20100626

FB Bangladesh

Banned
Facebook Banned in Bangladesh.

Looks like Facebook is never far from controversies. After getting banned in Pakistan over a contest about Prophet Muhammad's Caricatures, it's Bangladesh who has now banned the site over a similar matter. The country's telecommunications regulator, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (BTRA), has banned the site temporarily after a Bangladeshi national was arrested for uploading satirical images of Prophet Mohammed along with the country's leaders.

The citizen, Mahbub Alam Rodin, was arrested from Bangladesh capital Dhaka...

by keemyasay - Comments: 4 - Views: 84
20100626

Post the updates

Be up to date !
As it mentioned on the title, this thread will be the place where the informations of the latest updates of facebook will be shared.
Based on the experiences of mine and some other friends, it's kinda surprising to see a new update of facebook, and sometime we took that wrong as a site's error because of the lack informations about it.

Well, you are free to spread any informations you have with your own way. But, make sure you aren't repeating someone's post and share the information that have been shared before. And it's a must to keep yourself in the track (no off-topics needed,...

by keemyasay - Comments: 0 - Views: 38
20100625

1 billion users?
By ninemsn staff, ninemsn Money

Facebook continues its move towards market domination, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying it could be the first social networking site to reach 1 billion users.

The website currently has 500 million users, but Zuckerberg is confident Facebook can reach 1 billion once it conquers the relatively small number of countries that are yet to fully embrace the site, the New York Post reported.

Zuckerberg told the audience at the Cannes Lions International Advertising...

by Tim - Comments: 1 - Views: 49
20100625

Twitter lets you find Facebook
Are you following a bunch of strangers on Twitter? The micro-blogging site is making your tweeting experience a bit more friendly, with the addition of Facebook and LinkedIn to its Find Friends feature.

The Twitter Facebook app now lets you know which of your friends are on Twitter. It lets you save those users to a list or follow them instantly. Users can now also post tweets directly to their Facebook pages, in addition to their profile.

"[O]ne of our most frequent requests from users is how they can find and follow the people they are connected to on their social...

by Tim - Comments: 0 - Views: 44
20100625

Facebook blocking parts of Twitter's FB app
Twitter story

A new feature within Twitter's Facebook app that lets users find who among their friends has a Twitter account has been put on ice by Facebook.

The feature would cull through Facebook contacts and compare the list of names to users on Twitter, offering up things like Twitter profile information and a link to follow.

Now, trying to use the app on the popular social network brings up a message that...

by Ruby - Comments: 0 - Views: 46

20100624

Facebook And Skype Become More Integrated

	Facebook and Skype working together? Seems like so. If you're a Skype user, be sure to read what you will be able to do on Facebook soon!
Facebook is testing deeper integration which enables Skype users to start calls, chat, and send files if their friends on the service. While we’ve received at least one report, we aren’t quite sure if this is a feature being tested by Facebook or if...

by The Listener - Comments: 0 - Views: 44

20100623

Facebook is testing an enhanced news feed. Can you see it?
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Can you see it?

Well here’s an interesting thing from the Facebook camp. Business Insider tells us that apparently, in order to get users with very few friends involved with new and interesting content, Facebook is providing testing a different news feed.

Instead of just the stream of news, as you see in a normal News Feed, Facebook has integreated some other items that might be of interest to the...

by Ruby - Comments: 1 - Views: 53
20100622

Fans get involved with All-Star campaigns

Campaign Managers give players push via social networking
Fisher Pence is still helping Nick Swisher.

The first time was when they were students together at Parkersburg High in West Virginia, during the 1995-96 school year.

"He was my tutor when I was in ninth grade. I failed geometry, and he was my tutor as a senior," Swisher remembered. "That's the first we ever met. What a great dude."

The second time was during the ongoing 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star Game balloting campaign. For the first time, MLB.com is letting fans join the campaign staff of any player on the ballot, with the opportunity...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 50
20100622

Campbell complains about 'fascist' postings on Facebook
The DUP MP for East Derry, Gregory Campbell, has complained to the police after a picture of him with a bullet through his forehead against a Nazi flag background was posted on Facebook.

Mr Campbell said there must be greater scrutiny of Facebook and other social networking sites after his comments about the Saville Report on Bloody Sunday prompted offensive comments about him on the site.

Facebook has since removed the picture from its site.

Mr Campbell said there were 700 postings on Facebook sites attacking him.

“Those aligning themselves to this obviously...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 30
20100622

Hunt twitters on about Facebook
Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, was positively frothing with excitement after meeting the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, yesterday. He gushed on Twitter that Mr Zuckerberg was a "really smart guy with some good ideas on improving digital engagement in policy-making". Presumably, Mr Zuckerberg also had words about being careful on social networking sites: Mr Hunt, a Tory, was recently criticised for deleting pre-election tweets in which he attacked his Liberal Democrat coalition partners.

New C4 boss or I, Robot?

Diary...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 37
20100622

Benefit Cosmetics adds reviews feature to its Facebook page

A new Facebook tab lets the retailer retain comments that would otherwise disappear.
Web and catalog retailer Benefit Cosmetics has added a ratings tab to its Facebook tab in an effort to keep mentions of its brand accessible to Facebook users.

“We rely heavily on word of mouth,” says Valerie Hoecke, Benefit Cosmetics vice president, digital experience and commerce. “And we’ve found that there are many moments where a customer mentions a brand on Facebook but shoppers find it hard to later find that comment in the Facebook context because of the temporal nature of the news feed. We may have had a great mention by a customer who may be a great advocate for our brand,...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 38
20100622

Facebook Chides Privacy Coalition Over 'Open Letter'
Facebook released a point-by-point rebuttal to an open letter about privacy from consumer watchdog groups this week, saying that it already created measures to protect user privacy and that its instant personalization pilot program has been greatly misunderstood.

The first open letter, sent Wednesday by a group of privacy advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation, demanded that Facebook address "outstanding privacy problems" such as letting third-party social plug-ins retain user information, also known as instant personalization,...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 34
20100622

Facebook Upgrades Their iPhone App
Last night Facebook pushed out a new version of their iPhone application which includes a few upgrades including the ability to watch Facebook Video. While I’ve personally found that the Facebook iPhone application doesn’t load properly, I have a feeling that it may have to do with the number of friends that I have on the service. Other upgrades with the new application include the ability to view and write on walls of events, and photos that are uploaded are now 720 pixels wide.

Another feature that I hadn’t realized was available previously is the ability to change between the feeds...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 6
20100622

New Jersey Smells Just Fine, According to New Website
Things seem hard enough for New Jersey residents (enough already with the jokes about fake tans and bad driving, Bon Jovi and house music). Now, a new website aims to help Jersey residents buck up and take pride in their state.

But it’s not clear that the site, Jerseydoesntstink.com, provides the sophisticated rebuttal to New York snobbery that some residents might wish for.

“If one more person asks if you’re from Joisey, are you going to snap? WE ARE!” the website says. “If you’re from New Jersey you have something inside you no other state could possibly understand: JERSEY...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 5
20100622

How To Trick People Into Becoming Your Fans On Facebook

Display ads on Facebook come with the familiar -- and now ubiquitous -- Like button. But there are two very different things that clicking that Like button can mean -- and the distinction is not at all clear to the average user.

Facebook first added the ability to Like ads almost a year ago. Users could click Like to indicate that they were pleased with the ad; that information would be used to improve ad targeting; furthermore, once you Liked an ad, that fact would...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 6
20100622

Crackdown 2 demo lands, Facebook game unlocks bonus content
Had you fired up your Xbox 360 last night, and taken a few minutes to muse over the Marketplace offerings, your investigation would have been richly rewarded. A demo for Crackdown 2 has arrived, fully equipped with four-player online co-op, and a sudden spate of sickies has decimated office and school attendance in its wake. It's not too late to put on an anguished voice and ring your boss!

Or, if you're an upright, responsible and praiseworthy member of society not given to taking days off just for awesome new demos, you can always start the one GB download and come back to it this...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 14
20100622

Palo Alto expects to launch Facebook, Twitter sites after implementing social media policy
Palo Altans can expect the city to launch official Twitter and Facebook Web pages in the coming weeks as part of its first social media policy.
Though the city has other policies to dictate how its departments use certain electronic communication such as e-mail, "this is the first policy directed specifically at social media users," said Greg Hermann, a management specialist for Palo Alto. Such internal policies are usually approved by the city manager, and the city council's Policy and Services Committee will review this one at tonight's meeting to provide feedback.
Some city...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 7
20100622

Facebook Searches For Answers, Looks To Google
Riddle me this: Why are there so many question and answer sites on the Web? You can't throw a stone at a Google search without hitting one of the many Q&A platforms out there. Established sites include Answers.com, Yahoo! Answers, Mahalo and Wikia, just to name a few.

And yet Facebook is gearing up to roll out its own version, according to Jay Yarow at Business Insider. The implication could be devastating to startups like Hunch.com and Quora, each working on a next generation question platform. Given all the competition, why does Facebook care about Q&As anyways?

One...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 7
20100622

LAPD uses Facebook, Twitter, videos to find Lakers violence suspects
Los Angeles authorities plan to use hundreds of images taken from police videos, business surveillance cameras, TV news footage, Twitter posts and Facebook pages to identify people who committed crimes after the L.A. Lakers NBA championship win last week.

Local police have already arrested 46 people but expect that number to grow. Officials warn it could take months to identify and arrest the suspects.

The Los Angeles Fire Department's arson unit on Friday released onto YouTube video of people smashing and setting fire to a taxi cab -- asking the public for help identifying...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 6
20100622

Tech firms more trusted than Facebook
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Americans trust technology heavyweights such as Apple, Google and Microsoft more than social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll.

Nearly half of 2,100 adults questioned in a Zogby Interactive survey said they trusted the big three technology firms "completely" or "a lot," compared to eight percent for Twitter and 13 percent for Facebook.

But all of the companies rated higher than traditional media.

John Zogby, the president and CEO of Zogby International, said big companies have had the...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 4
20100622

Amazon Owns A Patent On Facebook (AMZN)
Amazon (AMZN) just won a patent on "social networks" and a description from the abstract makes the patent sound like a real threat to Facebook:

“Users can identify other users based on their affiliations with particular schools or other organizations. The system also provides a mechanism for a user to selectively establish contact relationships or connections with other users, and to grant permissions for such other users to view personal information of the user.”

But here's the thing: Facebook also owns a patent crucial to modern social networking. And so does...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 5
20100622

Facebook in shock 'solid net profit'

2009 revenues topped $700m, says report
Facebook pulled in a $700 to $800 million in revenue during 2009, according to a report citing two sources familiar with the situation.

Reuters reports that last year, the social networking site made actually made a "solid" net profit — somewhere in the tens of millions of dollars.

These figures are higher than expected for the still-private outfit. Last July, Facebook board member and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen told Reuters that the company expected revenues of around $500 million in 2009, and more recent press reports have put 2009 revenues between $500 million...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 5
20100620

Facebook founder facing death penalty
According to the BBC, although you'll need to understand Urdu to read it (here is a rough translation using Google for your convenience if you don't), Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stands accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a Pakistani court filing under something known as 'Messenger Law' for which the punishment can be death.

The case stems from a competition that a Facebook user started which invited users to 'Draw Muhammad' and led to Facebook access being blocked in Pakistan back in May. A competition which proved quite popular with the Facebook 'Everybody Draw...

by iFacebook - Comments: 1 - Views: 49