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20100602

Report: Zynga Shrinks by 10%, Playfish Shrinks by 11%, Playdom Grows By 1%?
A recent report by Lou Kerner analyzing Facebook traffic across all the major social game publishers’ games shows that almost every social games company experienced losses in traffic for the month of May… all except Playdom. The catalyst for the loss of users was undoubtedly Facebook’s decisions to turn off two key viral Facebook features: notifications and requests. Are we about to see a shake up in the leadership of social gaming, and will Playdom begin to encroach on Zynga’s turf?

The report comes from SecondShares co-founder Lou Kerner, and lists the top losers for the month. The...

by JayJay - Comments: 0 - Views: 57
20100601

Facebook Bug lets hackers delete friends without permission
The flaw was reported Wednesday by Steven Abbagnaro, a student at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. But as of Friday morning, Pacific time, it had still not been patched, based on tests conducted by the IDG News Service on a reporter's Facebook friends list.

A malicious hacker could combine an exploit for this bug with spam or even a self-copying worm code to wreak havoc on the social network, Abbagnaro said in an interview.

He's written proof-of-concept code that scrapes publicly available data from users' Facebook pages and then, one by one, deletes all of their...

by The Listener - Comments: 0 - Views: 49
20100531

The Facebookers who cried Wolf
Over the course of the last several weeks, several outraged Facebook users have taken to the web with declarations of quitting the service and trying to find another home. Some of them have even taken to the Facebook site itself to try and lobby for such a service (irony). The challenge, however, is that Facebook has become so ubiquitous — so much that brands are using Facebook vanity URLs versus corporate sites in ads — that there’s nowhere else for these people to go without losing the networks they have built. At the same time, if they were really so outraged, wouldn’t they just leave anyway?...

by Tim - Comments: 0 - Views: 41
20100531

Pakistan lifts Facebook ban after page removed
Pakistan lifts the ban

>>Information here<<

LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologized for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents, a top information technology official said.

The move came almost two weeks after Pakistan imposed the ban amid anger over a page that encouraged users to post images of Islam's...

by Ruby - Comments: 0 - Views: 51
20100529

'Facebook for Muslims' launched in Pakistan after real thing is blocked over 'blasphemous' Prophet images
I for one can recall the concerns expressed when a Facebook Page was published showing images of the Prophet Mohammed

The Facebook page 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!' encouraged users to submit images of the prophet on May 20.
Muslims argue that any representations of the Prophet are blasphemous. A series of cartoons of the prophet published in a Danish newspaper in 2005 sparked violent protests and death threats against the cartoonists.

A different site has been set up, according to this information

by Ruby - Comments: 0 - Views: 62
20100529

Google crowns Facebook king of Internet visits
Looks like Facebook is one of the #1 sites out there for sure!

SAN FRANCISCO, California — Google on Friday released Web traffic data indicating that Facebook is king when it comes to online visitors despite criticism about privacy at the social-networking service.

Facebook.com is visited monthly by 540 million people, or slightly more than 35 percent of the Internet population, according to Google Ad Planner worldwide data gathered using recently-acquired Double Click.

Approximately 570 billion pages are viewed monthly at Facebook.com, more than eight times...

by Tim - Comments: 0 - Views: 13
20100528

Lawmaker seeks co-operation from Google and Facebook
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WASHINGTON — The head of the House Judiciary Committee is asking Google and Facebook to cooperate with government inquiries into privacy practices at both companies.

Michigan Democrat John Conyers sent letters to Google Inc. and Facebook on Friday amid mounting concern in Congress that the two online companies are not adequately protecting personal privacy on the Internet.

'Privacy'...

by Ruby - Comments: 0 - Views: 44
20100528

Pedophile 'could have been stopped by Facebook panic button '
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A paedophile who groomed up to 1,000 child victims could have been stopped earlier if Facebook had a 'panic button' encouraging youngsters to report abuse, police believe.

After the guilty plea, police said they had identified about 500 victims he had groomed or abused but believed there could be up to 1,000...

by Ruby - Comments: 0 - Views: 40
20100528

New study reveals younger generation users are more in tune with Facebook privacy
Interestingly, the younger generation of facebook users are the ones who take more steps to protection their information at facebook. As Sharon Gaudin of Computer World tells us, the younger of facebook users seem to tweak their privacy settings more.

Computerworld - When adults talk about personal privacy on sites like Facebook, someone is bound to contend that that young people are too self-absorbed or too naive to care about securing...

by Tim - Comments: 0 - Views: 55
20100526

Facebook Privacy Changes

Some expected changes
>>Read Here<<

What changes have been announced?

The changes fall into three broad areas.

Firstly, Mark Zuckerberg said there will be just one simple privacy control for all your Facebook content.

The new control will apply to all historical content, and all future content and applications, and lets users decide how their information is shared, in a few simple categories, including contact details, photographs, and...

by Ruby - Comments: 1 - Views: 47
20100525

Helping Kids Find their Way Home

Today is International Missing Children's Day
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Today ( Tuesday) is International Missing Children's Day, a day to celebrate efforts that have led to the recovery of missing children, reflect on the plight of those who are still missing, and dedicate ourselves anew to helping bring those children home.

What started as a local effort in one country has spread across four continents, with events and activities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Romania, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom...

by Ruby - Comments: 0 - Views: 53
20100520

Landing Tab Limitations Lifted
Courtesy of Allfacebook, this recall will likely benefit Page administrators

Less than 24 hours after we first covered Facebook’s decision to limit landing tabs within Facebook Pages to “authenticated” admins, the company has appeared to revert back to the original permissions, making landing tabs available for anybody. The change was rapidly criticized by more Page administrators who use landing tabs as an easy way to convert new visitors into fans.

While we’ve reached out to the company for clarification about whether or not this change back to the original settings...

by Tim - Comments: 0 - Views: 49
20100519

Facebook Prepares to Release Simple Privacy Settings
Facebook’s Public Policy Director, Tim Sparapani, spoke with Kojo Nnamdi today in Washington, D.C. and stated that the company would soon release simple privacy settings in the coming weeks. In addition to defending the company’s position for providing an extensive number of privacy settings (a position which is legitimate), Sparapani stated that there will be “simplistic bands of privacy that [users can choose from” in the “next couple weeks”.

Given that the company has come under significant pressure over the past couple weeks over new programs, including the highly controversial “Instant...

by The Listener - Comments: 0 - Views: 20
20100519

ReclaimPrivacy.org attempts to help protect privacy
Worried about your privacy? ReclaimPrivacy.org has been launched to help ensure all your settings are set to what you want it to be, not what facebook wants. From PcMag's blog, here's a brief introduction on this service.

There's a lot of discussion lately around Facebook's privacy policies: how they've changed over time, how they impact you, and what you should do to make sure the information you provide to Facebook is secure, or at least only shared in the ways you allow. Still, it's difficult to keep track of Facebook's well-over-a-dozen privacy settings, menus, and options,...

by Tim - Comments: 0 - Views: 35
20100519

Facebook will change the current Notifications

Facebook’s decision to kill notifications has had lasting effects on developers, effectively killing most virality for the application Platform (although there are still plenty of applications growing through feed optimization). The other major change that developers have been preparing for is the shift of requests from the homepage to the inbox. Now Facebook has updated the Developer Roadmap, stating that the requests...

by The Listener - Comments: 1 - Views: 21
20100514

ALERT: Your Facebook Friend Requests Are Not A Virus
A new message is spreading around Facebook suggesting that users with numerous friend requests are actually a sign that your computer has been infected with a virus. This is factually inaccurate according to Facebook. The reason for the increased number of friend requests is a small change that Facebook made in regards to how the number of friend requests is displayed.

Users are posting messages similar to the following on their profile wall:

VIRUS WARNING: ANYONE WHO HAS GOTTEN ATON OF FRIEND...

by The Listener - Comments: 1 - Views: 68
20100513

Staying in control of your Facebook Logins
Due to the recent rumors of hackers stealing passwords though the "Remember me" button, Facebook has shared a quite useful guide for their users to read. Beware of this! Your account can get hacked without you noticing, and it's almost impossible to have it back.

At Facebook, we're constantly working on new ways to protect you from scams and help you keep your account and information secure. Today, we're announcing some new tools and systems designed to keep the bad guys out and keep you abreast of suspicious activity so you can quickly take action...

by The Listener - Comments: 0 - Views: 31
20100510

ALERT: “SEE VVHO HAS VIEVVED YOU” Is Another Facebook Scam
Another scammer appears to be successfully exploiting users once again. Despite Facebook’s attempts to block it, spam is still spreading fast. Application virality might be dying but having an app or page with the sole purpose of crawling your friends list is still well alive. A few hours ago a Page called “SEE VVHO HAS VIEVVED YOU” has spread to 39,425 and is growing at the pace of 1,000 users a minute.

How it works:
1) You accept a friends suggestion
2) The page encourages you to install javascript (copy and paste) into your web URL bar like a...

by The Listener - Comments: 1 - Views: 78
20100507

Facebook Adds an Unlike Button for Pages
No longer a fan of something? Facebook just made it easier to “unlike” your favorite Facebook Pages through the embedded fan box widgets. While many users have actually requested that Facebook a full functioning “Dislike” feature to express negative sentiment, this feature is simply an easier way to not be a fan of existing Facebook Pages that you like.

Why Facebook would add the unlike button is unknown but many Facebook Page owners have been complaining to us about the feature this morning. Previously, it was pretty difficult to “unfan” (now called “unlike”) Facebook Pages from external...

by The Listener - Comments: 0 - Views: 44
20100505

Facebook is Hiring Engineers in Seattle!
Just in case any of you would you would like to apply to work in Facebook, read this article

To keep up with Facebook's rapid growth, our engineering team is looking to hire the best and brightest people we can find. Today we're announcing our plan to open an engineering office in Seattle, Washington. The Facebook Seattle office should be open this summer, and we're looking for a handful of stellar engineers to form the initial team.

Over the last year, Facebook has grown at a faster...

by The Listener - Comments: 0 - Views: 55
20100503

Facebook: The 'Evil Interface?'

Is your personal information suddenly flapping in the breeze?
Pop quiz! What do you call "the act of creating deliberately confusing jargon and user-interfaces which trick your users into sharing more info about themselves than they really want to?"

Give up? Don’t feel dumb. Even the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a free speech, privacy, innovation and consumer rights advocacy organization, had a tough time wrapping its collective brain around the concept as it built its tutorial to help users through Facebook’s most recent privacy changes. So EFF turned to Facebook and Twitter users for help.

Suggestions for a term to easily...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 43
20100503

Amazon Updates Kindle With Facebook and Twitter Support
Amazon just announced the next major update to its Kindle software, version 2.5. It's about to start rolling out to some users, to see a full rollout in May (pretty sure it's already May, Amazon--check your farmers' market. They'll be selling asparagus. May.). This is the second major firmware update to an e-book reader post-iPad--Barnes & Noble released theirs a few weeks ago.
So what does Amazon bring to Kindle version 2.5? There's "collections," which seem mostly like folders to me--you can organize your books or whatever else into these collections. There's now a password...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 42
20100503

Stolen Facebook Accounts for Sale
Researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense division tracking the digital underworld say bogus and stolen accounts on the Facebook are now on sale in high volume on the black market, Riva Richmond reports in The New York Times.

During several weeks in February, iDefense tracked an effort to sell log-in data for 1.5 million Facebook accounts on several online criminal marketplaces, including one called Carder.su.

That hacker, who used the screen name “kirllos” and appears to deal only in Facebook accounts, offered to sell bundles of 1,000 accounts with 10 or fewer friends for $25 and...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 42
20100503

Ways for Facebook to Improve User Privacy
Online privacy advocates are always one step behind social networking sites like Facebook.Com. This time, we have some extra addition to the whole crowd because recently, Senators Michael Bennet, Mark Begich and Al Franken (All of them – Democrats) are having objection against the Instant Personalization feature of Facebook.
Instant Personalization is a small plugin/service on Facebook which lets partner websites, personalize some things on any individual’s profile page, according to his or her tastes. It could be the new genre in music, new movies or something related to fashion, but 3rd...

by iFacebook - Comments: 0 - Views: 40

20100428

Will Facebook Be Charging? NO

	What is true about these rumors? Do you believe they're true or fake? Find what's really true about them in this article. Special thanks to the AllFacebook blog
Thanks to a group called “I’m quitting facebook when the start charging $50/per month on July 8, 2010″, hundreds of...