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Case Study: The Downside of Playing Facebook
FOXBusiness - USA
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Facebook, RIM, 'tis better to be greedy
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Check out the Arctic Front Facebook Group
By Emily Murgatroyd
And if you're a big Facebook-er (who isn't these days), please join our Arctic Front Facebook group and add your name to the growing number of people (almost 200 already!) concerned about the environmental impacts of the Alberta oil ...
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Share Music with Facebook Friends using DoubleTwist
Lifehacker Australia - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Twist me!, a Facebook app developed alongside the DRM-stripping
DoubleTwist application, offers a fairly convenient way to do just that.
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Facebook Navigation In 3D
By Rodney Rumford
I have come across an example of a facebook desktop app that allows you to navigate through various aspects and connections of your facebook social graph in 3D. This is a desktop app that was created by a Canadian coder Stephen Bulhoes. ...
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Facebook Phenomenon
By Kat Candler(Kat Candler)
Anne del Castillo told me ages ago "Oh my god, you have to get on Facebook. You have to!" As if my life depended on it. Even my husband was on Facebook and I didn't know it. I wonder if he knows he's on Facebook. ...
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Ulanoff: Facebook's Death Spiral Has Begun
FOXNews - USA
I've never tried to get off Facebook, so I had no idea how
difficult it is for members to walk away from the clubby social network.
Apparently, you can stop ...
Facebook's moment of cool has passed
Financial Times - London,England,UK
By the same token, I always knew Facebook would become uncool the
moment I joined. And lo, it has come to pass. According to Nielsen Online,
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Military warns soldiers not to post info on Facebook
CBC Manitoba - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
The Defence Department is advising Canadian soldiers not to post personal
photos and information on social networking websites like Facebook,
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PC Magazine Predicts Facebook Death Spiral. WTF?
By Rodney Rumford
Facebook is in a death spiral according to a recent article that was published on the 20th of this month by PC Magazine. WTF? All I can say is this article has some interesting points regarding leaving facebook; but beyond that the ...
Facebook Apps And Me
By chrisbrogan
Facebook is a social network where people can stay in touch, join groups, have discussions, and learn more about each other through various profile attributes and additional applications. And Facebook is a place for people with some ...
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Facebook up to it
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
There are many examples - Wikipedia, Second Life, social networking sites
such as Facebook and MySpace, photo sharing site Flickr and a host
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I Could Write A Book
By Choire
And that book would be called: Joe Dolce and James Frey are now friends. For those who don't know who either is, and why should you: Joe Dolce, James Frey.
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Facebook hints at upcoming Profile changes
By Justin Smith
After a spate of recent changes that have curtailed some developers’ Platform enthusiasm, Facebook this weekend hinted at upcoming changes to the Profile box that will make the profile box “simpler, more relevant, and provide users with ...
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Don't be Facebook 'target,' Canadian soldiers warned
Globe and Mail - Canada
The Canadian military is warning its members to be careful about using
Internet social-networking sites such as Facebook to keep in touch
with friends and ...
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Prison for fake Facebook profile
By Laura
26 year-old IT engineer Fouad Mourtada, has been arrested in Morocco for making a fake Facebook profile. According to FaceReviews, he made a profile page for Prince Moulay Rachid, the younger brother of King Mohammed VI. ...
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Always Facebook and applications
By Twinview Land
Facebook is providing links to these applications as a courtesy, and makes no representations regarding the applications or any information related to them. Any questions regarding an application should be directed to the developer. ...
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Facebook Lives to See Another Day!
By Nick O'Neill
Last night I was reading through my RSS feeds and noticed an overall negative tone of the current coverage of Facebook. Brian Groom of the Financial Times reported on information that we posted last week. I’m not sure why this news was ...
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Facebook; advertising heaven or hell?
By David Gillespie
I read somewhere recently - I think Seth Godin said it - if you were to set out with the express purpose of creating the worst possible environment online for advertising, you would wind up with something pretty similar to Facebook. ...
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Zynga launches Facebook game developer platform, which might prove ...
By JakeRockwell(JakeRockwell)
Zynga, an emerging empire of third party gaming applications on Facebook, announced a new ad network for developers a couple of weeks ago — and crossed swords with rival gaming company Social Gaming Network (our coverage). ...
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Social Network Engagement Metrics
By Rodney Rumford
Social Network Engagement Metrics: I was thinking for the past few weeks about how to best measure effectiveness of engagement for brands on facebook. I struggle with the exact metrics that can measure the true value of what occurs ...
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Fouad Mourtada Gets Three Years for Phony Facebook Page
Washington Post - United States
A Moroccan court last week sentenced a man to three years in prison for
creating a Facebook page under the name Prince Moulay Rachid.
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'Hangover' Facebook app is Pokemon for Bluto and Frank the Tank
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I don't normally review Facebook applications. I also don't
normally install too many on my profile unless I actually deem them useful.
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UK data watchdogs drop Facebook probe
Register - London,England,UK
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Facebook’s Response to Mourtada and Others Callous and Inadequate.
By Curt
We wondered how Facebook felt about the recent arrest and three year sentence of Moroccan Fouad Mourtada for his satirical Facebook page of his country’s king. So we wrote them. What we got was, well, given the precendents set by Yahoo, ...
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Zynga Game Network Launches on Facebook
By Rodney Rumford
Zynga Game Network Launches Game Center: Zynga is inviting Third-Party Developers to Join its Game Network: Game Center which accesses its Facebook network via an Application Programming Interface (API). Game Center allows developers to ...
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Facebook Platform: The State of the Apps
By JakeRockwell(JakeRockwell)
There is a fundamental flaw in the overall state of Facebook applications. The issue as I see it is that for a venue with as much potential Facebook, the apps built on its platform have no real use (other than diversionary). ...
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Late Breaks: Facebook, Politico, Comcast...
By jbercovici
-Facebook is looking to hire a "well-known tech executive" -- in other words, someone who wears closed-toed shoes -- to supplement Mark Zuckerberg at the top. [All Things D]. -Politico has started a blog covering political media. ...
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Moroccan Bloggers Protest Jailing for Facebook Prank
New York Times - United States
“If creating a profile on Facebook is worth all this treatment,
then the next person will be a blogger,” he said, according to a
translation. ...
How Facebook Might Win
Motley Fool - USA
By Tim Beyers February 26, 2008 OK, so most of you don't agree that
social networker Facebook is worth $15 billion. So be it. I may,
indeed, be wrong. ...
'Facebook' lost policeman top job
BBC News - UK
But when his prospective employer ran background checks it found he had
been given a warning over his Facebook page. Bedfordshire Police
then withdrew the ...
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First screenshots of the new tabbed Facebook Profile page
By Justin Smith
As we mentioned yesterday, a big change coming up at Facebook this spring will be a revamping of the Profile page. While the implications of these changes for application developers are still unclear, Facebook today released the first ...
New & Improved: Tabbed Facebook Profiles
By Rodney Rumford
New & Improved: Tabbed Facebook Profiles are coming soon. Here comes spring cleaning part 2 (here is part one). Facebook just keeps changing the profile page to make it cleaner. First it was extended profiles… now this. ...
Facebook's getting a face-lift soon
By Caroline McCarthy
Facebook first announced last year that it was working on a redesign of members' profiles; now, the social-networking site has unveiled previews of its upcoming new look. The Facebook profile redesigns will start rolling out in the next ...
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Will Facebook Profile Tabs Lead to Better Apps?
By Josh Catone
One of the big social news stories this evening was Facebook's announcement that it is actively working on a redesign to user profiles that would break the profile page down into three, main tabbed components. ...
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Going Postal: Man to eat all 12 McDonald's value meals for ...
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
A young man has pledged to eat all twelve of McDonald’s value meals in
one sitting for a small price: he wants 100000 people to join his
Facebook profile. ...
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Facebook’s Rights Grab: How Far Does It Go?
By Jim
Last week in my post “How The Rights To Your Photo Are Being Hijacked Through Photo Contests & Social Media” I mentioned that social media sites like Facebook were grabbing the rights of submitted photos as many photo contests are now ...
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Facebook Winning First Platform War
By Nick O'Neill
It now appears that Facebook may have already won the first platform war. If you were expecting a massive transfer of developers over to the Bebo platform, you would have guessed wrong. So far 1375 applications have launched on the Bebo ...
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Facebook film ad pulled over violence
Guardian Unlimited - UK
A controversial online marketing campaign for the Universal Pictures
thriller Untraceable has been pulled from Facebook and the video
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Facebook’s new face: What does it needs to accomplish?
ZDNet - USA
Facebook has previewed a new profile page that cleans up a good
amount of clutter on the page by creating tabs for users to put their wall
items, ...
Report says Canada tells troops not to post Facebook info
International Herald Tribune - France
OTTAWA: Canadian military chiefs have told soldiers not to post personal
information on social networking sites such as Facebook because it
could prompt ...
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Facebook Advertising Gone Bad
By Nick O'Neill
An over the top ad campaign for the upcoming Universal Pictures produced “Untraceable” has been removed from Facebook after concerns were expressed about excessive violent content. I’m fortunate not to have seen the content because it ...
Facebook Threatens Soldiers, Canada Warns
By Noah Shachtman
The Canadian military is warning soldiers not to post personal information on social networking sites such as Facebook, due to security concerns." Canadian_forces_facebook_3. That's the word from the National Post, which piggybacks off ...
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Facebook Threatens Soldiers, Canada Warns
Wired News - USA
This alleged threat that Facebook poses to troops' families --
that's a new one, to me. Canadian Forces has its own, official
Facebook group, by the way, ...
Facebook Gets Profile Facelift
PC World - USA
Also from what can be seen in the screenshot, it looks like the
Facebook news feed and applications will be a part of the tabs. This
is a nice addition for ...
Officer denied promotion over gay Facebook page
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
They discovered he had received a disciplinary warning from his seniors at
British Transport Police over his Facebook page. Insp Dreyfus was
handed the ...
Facebook Readies iPhone-Inspired Redesign
Wired News - USA
By Scott Gilbertson February 27, 2008 | 10:38:59 AMCategories: communities,
design Facebook was a natural for the iPhone — its interface was
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Are you experiencing FaceBook fade?
By Tom Raftery
The developers started creating all kinds of applications for FaceBook and the FaceBook Platform was pronounced as the next big thing! And an investment by Microsoft putatively valued the website at $15bn. ...
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Tories launch Facebook campaign
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A Conservative Party drive to recruit new "friends" has been
launched via social networking site Facebook featuring a video made
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Family of jailed Facebook faker 'devastated'
CTV.ca - Canada
The siblings of a Moroccan man jailed for a impersonating a prince on
Facebook says they are being intimidated by authorities when
visiting the prison where ...
iotum’s conference call Facebook app picks up three new intl partners
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All that’s required is an active Internet connection, and clicking on the
FREE Conference Calls application icon in Facebook. Call back.
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The earthquake that rocked Facebook
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
A slightly bizarre aspect of the quake, though, was the sporadic tendency
of people to log on to Facebook in the middle of the night to check
if friends had ...
New Facebook App Lets Groups Issue Ultimatums
Wired News - USA
A new Facebook app called Ultimatums lets users float an idea, set
an arbitrary "tipping point" and track group members'
commitment to their common goal. ...
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Facebook Opens News Feed, But Not Enough
By Sean Ammirati
This week Facebook opened up its News Feed to third party services, allowing users to add content from outside sites to their Facebook feed. Third parties could already allow their users to do this by creating Facebook Apps. ...
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Facebook: Link to Companies' Futures?
ROCHESTER, MN -- There have been numerous stories from all over the country about employees getting in trouble or even fired because of what's posted on their Facebook or MySpace web page. But these social networking websites are ...
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Social-Good Networking Facebook Becomes Catalyst for Causes ...
MediaShift - CA,USA
by Mark Glaser, 10:28AM This morning, I received a notification on my
Facebook profile that said if I sent a virtual plant to some of my
friends, ...
Facebook Page Ruins Gay Officer's Promotion
Angel City's Devil - Los Angeles,CA,USA
But the Bedforshire Police thought differently, contending that his
previous employer's warning about his gay Facebook profile was,
in fact, intolerable. ...
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Facebook Communication Done Right
By Rodney Rumford
Facebook Communication Done Right: While we talk a lot about best practices and how facebook is effectively a communication platform at it’s core. I wanted share how facebook is eating some of it’s own dog food. ...
Twitter, Facebook, and Social Boundaries
By Eugene Eric Kim(Eugene Eric Kim (ee...@eekim.com))
It's Facebook. My close colleagues know that I am obsessed with Facebook, not because of some deep seeded need to feel like I have a lot of friends, but because I think it is one of the most well-designed online tool I have ever seen. ...
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@ MPA: Facebook's Van Natta On The Lessons Of Beacon; No Hints On ...
By David Kaplan
In his MPA Q&A with Fortune's David Kirkpatrick,Owen Van Natta didn't offer any further hints about his future plans when he leaves his post as chief revenue officer of Facebook in a few weeks. Mostly, he said magazines should be ...
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New updates to the site include "status" messages to indicate current activity, similar to Facebook's, and a number of new personalized "modules" on the ...
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Facebook Tackles Music, Movies
By Josh Catone
Facebook today launched two new Pages for music and film aimed at getting musical artists and film makers on the site. The new pages are templates for artists that include applications specifically designed for music and film, ...
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Facebook Music Rocks!
By Rodney Rumford
Facebook Music Rocks! Facebook Pages for musicians have existed since pages went live. But what is new is the main music page that shows a lot of the features that are available on facebook pages for music artists. ...
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2 more Facebook Platform updates this week making it harder for ...
By Justin Smith
Facebook tonight announced that the new invitation allocation limits will be going into effect in the next two days. While this change was announced last week, new information we’re getting from developers points to this update being ...
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Facebook Help 101
By Rodney Rumford
Facebook Help 101: As our readership continues to grow and millions of people are coming onto facebook every month; we thought it would be helpful to show people where they can help themselves on facebook. This might sound really odd; ...
PCC faces up to Facebook 'intrusions'
By Roy Greenslade
The Press Complaints Commission has commissioned research into the newspapers' use of material from social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. In a radio interview (as reported on journalism.co.uk) the PCC's director, ...
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Facebook getting a major makeover
Sky News - United Kingdom
"As more and more information is available on Facebook - more
photo albums, more applications, and more history - we've realized that
Profiles have become ...
Is Cameron's New Video A Facebook Flop?
Sky News - United Kingdom
But while the content may be achingly familiar, there is something novel
about the Tory decision to target the Facebook generation. Not least
the appeal for ...
Iotum Intros Free Conference Calling Application for Facebook
TMCnet - USA
According to Iotum CEO Alec Saunders, this announcement has been made in
response to demand from users of the application launched on
Facebook last ...
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The Globalization of Facebook
By Futurelab
Fred Wilson points out in his blog that Facebook is not experiencing a decline but rather it has reached a plateau in the USA. Look a few feet outside the US border and we see a very different picture.
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Facebook German Launch Imminent?
By Nick O'Neill
One of my readers sent me an email pointing out a change to the Facebook German domain. The web URL http://facebook.de now displays a page that says “We’re upgrading” whereas http://www.facebook.de automatically redirects to ...
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LinkedIn Lifting Off of Facebook?
Techtree.com - Mumbai,India
LinkedIn isn't quite Facebook or MySpace -- in that you're
supposed to be actually achieving something while on the site, such as
taking advice or talking ...
Friend us, say Tories in Facebook-style campaign
Guardian - UK
And the decision to post the video on Facebook rather than
Conservatives.com chimes with the party's decision to advertise on the
social networking site ...
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Facelift for Facebook
By claudine...@telegraph.co.uk (Claudine...
Facebook users have been grumbling for a while about how cluttered the website's layout has become since Facebook opened itself to third-party developers and allowed users to add unlimited applications to their profile pages. ...
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Facebook Continues To Constrict Developers
By Nick O'Neill
Yesterday, Facebook made an announcement that they have updated the notification and request metrics. I initially didn’t think much of this announcement and figured it was just a standard Facebook update. According to Justin Smith, ...
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Facebook boosts musicians
Hollywood Reporter - United States
By Antony Bruno, Billboard DENVER -- Facebook on Thursday unveiled a
music section designed to let artist create profiles that showcase their
music, videos, ...
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Facebook Denies Role in Morocco Arrest
Wall Street Journal - USA
By VAUHINI VARA SAN FRANCISCO -- The social-networking startup
Facebook Inc. said it didn't give the Moroccan government
information to identify a user who ...
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Firms 'missing out on Facebook craze'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Ben Farmer British businesses are lagging behind overseas rivals in
harnessing the power of social-networking websites such as Facebook
and MySpace, ...
Hitch to dating? Too much face(book) time
Boston Herald - United States
“Then there’s Internet dating, Facebook-ing and MySpace
[website]-ing,” Jones rattled off. “In a way, we’ve grown farther
apart. I think it’s actually nice ...
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Facebook email Double Standard
By Rodney Rumford
Facebook email Double Standard: Do as I Say NOT As I Do! Facebook made a change to email messages that applications send out. Email messages are typically sent based on a very specific discreet action based on a friends action from ...
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By Andrew Wee
I’ll be on a panel next week at the second Singapore Facebook Developers Garage on March 5th, 715pm-1030pm. The event is sponsored by Microsoft and the National University of Singapore. Here’sa snippet of the panel: If you didn’t ...
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XING Is Now On Facebook!
By Hazel Pandya
This week we launched a XING application for Facebook! (Yay!) If you remember we launched mynetworkvalue.com a few months ago. This little website calculates the value of your business network and converts it into hard cash. ...
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Facebook Invites Get Restricted, Developers Cry
By Nick O'Neill
Last night Facebook finally turned on the invite restrictions that they have been speaking about for the past few weeks. I went and checked out a few of my apps all of which had now been limited to 12 invites per day. ...
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Join Mobilists Group on Facebook
By ceo
I created a Mobilists group on Facebook to try and assemble the best people in the mobile industry into one network. It’s completely open for anyone to join, contribute and drive. Let’s innovate! ...
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Facebook and the price of user privacy
ZDNet UK - UK
It's hard to go anywhere — to work, to the shops, to the cinema,
really anywhere — without hearing about Facebook. Its popularity
is nearly unprecedented, ...
Facebook Launches Band Pages
Wired News - USA
As suspected, Facebook has been working on a music service to give
bands and labels a way to post and sell their own music and music-related
items. ...
Child Internet Safety Task Force
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
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Harvard and MySpace (and joined by other groups such as Facebook,
Google, ...
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Your Facebook app is a disaster, and I was right.
By Jevon MacDonald
In the middle of the Facebook App frenzy (was that a whole 4 months ago?!) I wrote “Delusions of Facebook” to try to dissuade as many startups as possible from going down that path. I hate to say it, but man — I was right. ...
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Checking in with Kinzin's Facebook Forays for Kids
By DaveO
Since interviewing Michael Fergusson of Kinzin for Raincity Radio a few months back, and hearing his compelling discourse on participatory marketing using the ubiquitous Facebook, I've worked hard to soften my cynicism about the ...
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PFLAG National on Myspace and Facebook!
By Adam
Many chapters already have “profile pages” on Myspace and Facebook (two popular social networking sites), along with many other GLBT organizations. For those that are members of these sites, you can now add PFLAG National as your ...
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LinkedIn Down an Hour After Big Upgrade
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By focusing on professional relationships, LinkedIn distinguishes itself
from social playgrounds like Facebook and News Corp.'s MySpace,
where users are ...
Identity theft: Six clicks from a cyber crook
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
After almost 18 months of exponential growth, Facebook has suffered
its first UK dip in user numbers, down from 8.9?million unique users in
December to ...
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Facebook board member Peter Thiel seeks Christian to give away his ...
By Nicholas Carlson
Want to work for Peter Thiel, the Facebook board member, hot-shot venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager? Thiel's personal assistant at Clarium Capital, Robertson George Morrow III -- call him... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
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Facebook Friend Invite Death Watch
By Rodney Rumford
Facebook has finally made live the sliding scale invites limitations mechanism for applications. Applications are now subject to daily changing (not fun) friend invite (and notifications) limits for their applications based upon several ...
New Ways to Facebook
The guys and gals over at the Facebook Blog have been busy lately! From a new "Facebook en Espanol" allowing hispanohablantes everywhere to view Facebook in their native language (and promises to soon release a French & German front as ...
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Bill Gates ditches Facebook for LinkedIn, ad deal coming?
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
Despite many rumors of Microsoft buying Facebook in September of
last year, all that ended up happening was a $240 million advertising
agreement. ...
Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case
Slashdot - USA
... have dragged a Stanford grad student/human rights activist into
the case because he moderated a discussion group about Wikileaks on
Facebook. ...
A Facebook For The Seven-Figure Set
BusinessWeek - USA
... photos, and videos for presenting personal information—offered
by popular sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, the professional
networking service. ...
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Facebook today launched two new Pages for music and film aimed at getting musical artists and film makers on the site. The new pages are templates for artists that include applications specifically designed for music and film, ...
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Facebook Bans Untraceable Promotion Page
By womenontop2
Variety reports that Facebook has refused to host a page that tied in with the movie, allowing users to see more video of one of the film’s torture scenes the more people who came to the page. Facebook banned the page based on the rule ...
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Your Business on Facebook: Facebook Marketing 101
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Find out how to market your business on Facebook using a variety of
tools and techniques: Facebook Business Solutions, Social Ads,
Groups, Events, ...
Ten Million in Ten Weeks: What Stanford Learned Building Facebook Apps
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September 2007: 100 students enroll in a Stanford class on building
Facebook apps and social persuasion. Instructors Fogg & McClure
warn students the new ...
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the ecosystem is wrong... why facebook for music still doesn't ...
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Facebook Music Rocks, in which the author waxes lyrical about how functional the Facebook music pages are. Which is true, they are, functionally, kicking the ass of MySpace, with the option to embed lots of stuff, and present it in a ...
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Send a Hillary Gift on Facebook
By Hillary Clinton(Hillary Clinton)
Now there's a new way to get your friends on Facebook involved in the campaign: send them a Hillary Gift! Sign up for Facebook, take a look at our new application, and send a Hillary Gift to your friends today. ...
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Bottlenotes Blends Wine and Facebook with New Contest
By briansolis
Facebook users who have installed the application and accrued the most points by March 29th will have a shot at some very attractive and worthwhile prizes. You better have a strong social graph however, the minimum to play the game is ...
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YourTrumanShow Releases Video-based Social Graph for Facebook
By briansolis
The company officially released VideoMap, a unique, video-based socialgraph supporting content from Youtube and YourTrumanShow (and others soon) within Facebook. This is less about “another Facebook app” and more about what ...
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Linked in Goes Facebook
By Michael Gray
Looks like Linkedin is going facebook offering status updates. Some of the options are:. Is working on will be traveling to is looking for advice on is looking for a job is reading. I think it’s kinda cool but don’t come to linkedin ...
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SocialToo.com - Your Companion to Facebook and the Social Web
By jessestay
Jason previously mentioned profile.to as a method to provide an easy-to-remember url to give people to reference your Facebook profile. I thought I’d give a little plug to an excellent tool of mine that I’d like to share with you. ...
FacebookAdvice.com - http://facebookadvice.com
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RE: Has Facebook’s Death Spiral Begun
By jblaquiere
Erick predicts that the US usage of Facebook has leveled off because of “friend spam”. This could very well be. I know personally that my Facebook usage has decreased with becoming bored with the applications that has made Facebook ...
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Facebook Now Offering Native German Language Support
Mashable - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Facebook has grown to very notable international proportions
(numerically speaking) over the last couple of years, but it’s been slow
to expand its lingual ...
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Facebook Launches in German
By Nick O'Neill
As expected, Facebook has rolled out the German version of their site. In a short amount of time since rolling out the Spanish version of the site, they have already added an additional language. Two days ago I speculated that the ...
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Mobile LBS Applications on Facebook
By Bena Roberts
Here is a an overview of the top Facebook applications that offer location and mobile services for Mobile Social Networking. Each of them allows users in the relevant countries to download a client a find friends by location. ...
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Prison officer faces sack over Facebook boast that he beat up inmates
Sunday Mirror - UK
The divorced father-of-one is said to have "joked" on his page on
the social networking site Facebook: "I am a prison officer
with a proud history of ...
PUPILS AGE 11 GET LESSONS IN FACEBOOK
Sunday People - UK
Uk Kids as young as 11 are getting school lessons in how to use the
internet craze Facebook - to protect them from online perverts and
bullies. ...
Council campaign launched on Facebook
This Is Lancashire - Blackburn,England,UK
The council's new Facebook group - called I'm supporting the
Chorley Smile campaign - is open to all members of the networking site and
gives details of the ...
Net’s agony aunts - Orkut and Facebook
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
New Delhi: While millions continue to log into social networking sites like
Orkut and Facebook to make friends and socialise, a small but
growing number of ...
Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words
New York Times - United States
The extremely popular game Scrabulous is played primarily on the
Facebook social-networking site. Fans of the game are obsessive.
They play against friends, ...
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eBay Sellers Network on Facebook for Fun and Profit
Auctionbytes - USA
By Julia Wilkinson People are popping up all over on Facebook like
so many prairie dogs in a Kansas field. The social networking site has been
growing at ...
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direct sharing on facebook
By thomas(thomas)
if you're using the facebook application you can now share every link directly within FB and send it to your friends.
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Placing the application in each user's profile page
By mohi1983
I'm pretty new in Facebook and I don't have much information about its APIs. I went through some posts in this forum to find out the solution, but non of them gave me a clear answer. I just created a simple application with all ...
- http://forum.developers.facebook.com
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Which Facebook Apps do You Think are Worthless?
By Cheryl
I have a Facebook profile and I barely use it. Initially, I did not quite figure out what I was supposed to do with it. Then, the application overload started. I received my first ‘app’ invitation from something called Superwall. ...
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Are you bored of Facebook and fed up with application spam yet?
TECH.BLORGE.com - Sydney,Australia
By Dave Parrack When people started discovering Facebook, it was a
such a refreshing change to MySpace, with more to do, and less pointless
spam inhibiting ...
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Face the facts: Facebook’s more than online socializing
By Ben Martin, blogmaster
After reading all the industry articles regarding social networking and its potential applications for real estate, and consulting with my college student daughter, our resident Facebook expert, I decided to give Facebook a try. ...
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Facebook App - oDesk
By oDesk Corporation(oDesk Corporation)
Our client is looking for someone to add their poker room to Facebook as an app. Facebook apps require a knowledge of PHP coding. Duties: Create a simple page that complies with Facebook requirements (the attachment may work). ...
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INetworkMarketing comments on our facebook app
By Mark
It was originally a three week campaign, and worked very well, excellent feedback, fantastic penetration, happy client, etc - despite Facebook changing its api every other day and bringing in its new spam filter (and then subsequently ...
OKCOOL - http://ok-cool.com/
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'FACEBOOK' ? how safe is it really?
Voices Newspaper - Didim,Aydin,Turkey
Assuming ‘FACEBOOK’ has no age limit, and we do not post our
credit card details beneath our picture, we will find 30 minutes or so per
day to keep our site ...
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Building the Facebook gaming platform: Interview with Shervin ...
By Justin Smith
Facebook is not yet ready for synchronous games - it will get there, but we’re just at the beginning now. Game play will get more advanced over time, and graphics will get more interesting over the years. To us, Facebook is a gaming ...
Inside Facebook - http://www.insidefacebook.com
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Hackers ramp up Facebook, MySpace attacks - Gregg Keizer ...
By Ray(Ray)
Hackers are actively exploiting an Internet Explorer plug-in that's widely used by Facebook Inc. and MySpace.com members with a multi-attack kit, a security company warned Friday. The exploit directed at Aurigma Inc. ...
Techno-News Blog - http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/blogger.html
1000000 Strong in Support of Facebook Applications
By Starfish Apps
Lately only Facebook app haterz have been heard. But now there is a new group to show support for apps: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8392175788 Please join, invite all of your friends and promote the group on your app About ...
Facebook Platform Developer Forum - http://forum.developers.facebook.com
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Facebook Debuts Music Section With iTunes
TrustedReviews - Bracknell,England,UK
Late last week all-conquering Facebook decided this should come to
an end and it has taken the first steps to attract its own raft of
audiophiles with ...
Facebook app takes glory in Sensis code-off
ZDNet.com.au - Australia
A location-based service designed to track the physical location of friends
on Facebook has taken honours in Sensis's WhereIs mapping
mash-up competition. ...
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Facebook battle over racist video
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
In an entry posted on social networking site Facebook on Sunday,
website administrator Gustav Buys told an unknown blogger, whose entry he
had deleted, ...
Facebook's Growing Problem
Branding Strategy Insider - Tampa,FL,USA
Facebook has rejected Nielsen's data and is reporting that the
number of active users - people who have used the site in the past 30 days
- has continued to ...
Facebook application to make social networking safer
PC World Magazine - Australia
A "Care For Your PC" Facebook application that allows
users of the social network to monitor how up-to-date the security software
on their computer is has ...
Student activists tailor their causes for Facebook
University at Buffalo The Spectrum - NY,USA
Students have a new excuse for spending hours captivated by
Facebook, only now their time could be spent doing more than just
procrastinating doing their ...
A Widget Mogul in Between Classes
BusinessWeek - USA
by Rachael King Most of Ankur Nagpal's classmates have no idea just how
much money he's been pulling in from creating Facebook
"quiz" applications such as ...
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Fox News ad on Facebook
By Don Day
Fox News is running an ad campaign on Facebook, with a video promo for this Tuesday’s election coverage. The ad in the News Feed says “Tune-in as America’s election HQ, Fox News, brings you first, fair and accurate information as the ...
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I’m getting bored of Facebook
By Sarah
It’s like we are on the same wavelength, maybe the same Facebook group? But seriously, who doesn’t hate logging in their Facebook only to see the 300 new application requests, or the crap-ton of pokes. Maybe I really am popular! haha no ...
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facebook
By sweets(sweets)
i caved... yes i did... i joined facebook... but the hopeless optimist that i am, i actually thought facebook would be easy... either it is easy and i'm just clueless or i'm just not getting it... i sent out invitations that i didn't ...
Sweets - http://sweetassrsa.blogspot.com/
Facebook Now In German - Thanks To 2000 Translaters
By Search-Engines-Web.com
Facebook will launch in German tomorrow, thanks to 2000 users who’ve helped translate the site using an application that Facebook released a couple of months ago to a limited number of users. Supported languages include German, ...
Google Blogoscoped Forum - http://blogoscoped.com/forum/
Facebook: Magazines should build apps, not their own social nets
By Martin Stabe
In a not entirely surprising point of view, Facebook’s “chief revenue officer” has said magazine publishers shouldn’t bother building their own vertical social networking sites. In a keynote interview at a Magazine Publishers of America ...
The Wire - http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire
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Is Facebook’s Platform a Strategic Mistake?
The Industry Standard - San Francisco,CA,USA
Last year, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg suggested that a
PC operating system was the inspiration for Facebook’s new
“Platform. ...
Facebook Multiplayer Game Pits Friend against Foe
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Snoqualmie, WA (PRWEB) March 3, 2008 -- Did you know there's a
real-time battle raging on Facebook? Every day good and evil
struggle for control of Harmony ...
Facebook gets face-lift, causes frenzy
Baruch College The Ticker - NY,USA
You've just received an e-mail that reads "Jane Doe sent you a
message on Facebook." You quickly log onto your Facebook
account to retrieve it and what do ...
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Friend Density Maps on FaceBook
By (Adena Schutzberg)
Reader Kyle passed along news of a new Facebook app called Friend Density. It does what you'd think - plots the density (thematic heat map of sorts) of where your friends are. Apparently at launch it was not worldwide, but is now. ...
All Points Blog - http://apb.directionsmag.com/
Loladex - New Facebook Local App
By Andrew Shotland
As I mentioned in my previous Facebook local post, Has Facebook Solved Local Search?, I think that the Facebook platform could evolve to become one of the best ways to find local businesses because of the size and quality of the social ...
Local SEO Guide - http://www.localseoguide.com
Facebook - so 2007
By Mike Butcher
Facebook is just, like soooo over? No, wait, before we descend into cliché, the more interesting thing about the below video is that it’s not made by Americans, but by Brits, bored with Facebook’s more useless applications and the like. ...
TechCrunch UK - http://uk.techcrunch.com
Banned from Facebook: One Lawyer's Story
By Bill Gratsch
Recently, I [Solove] was talking with David Lat, author of the blog Above the Law, and he was complaining about being banished from Facebook. David was an active user of Facebook, and he suddenly and inexplicably found himself banned ...
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Networking sites MySpace, Facebook losing popularity
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
"Most of the people I know have moved on from MySpace to
Facebook," said Brad Grace, a 19-year-old Grand Valley State
University student who made the switch ...
Hasbro, Mattel Threaten to Nix Scrabulous
Techtree.com - Mumbai,India
Played mostly on the popular social networking Web site, Facebook,
"Scrabulous" is a virtual replica of its board game parent,
Hasbro and Mattel's ...
Zannel Opens Developer API and Adds Twitter/Flickr/Facebook Feeds ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Custom tags can be added to Flickr feeds, and Facebook feeds can
update user status or media albums based on the content contained in the
message. ...
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Facebook speaks German
By Elmar
I´ma German developer announcing in his English-only blog that Facebook is now supporting the German language… ehm… It´s true though and quite a surprise because it came right after Spanish. The aerobis Plugin supports English and ...
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Social Music Showdown: Facebook Music partners with iTunes ...
Amid ongoing competitive pressure from Facebook, MySpace is taking its latest shot at entering the music business as other social networking peers, such as Last.fm and imeem, are making big audience gains with ad-supported music ...
- http://www.thedailyswarm.com/
Ypulse Essentials: Facebook Band Pages, DanceJam Launches ...
Facebook faces the music (and launches MySpace-like band pages. Plus do widgets work as brand builders?) (Wired) (BusinessWeek). - Hipster-Hop (Ypulse 2008 National Mashup advisory board member Karl Carter on "hipster-hop" or music and ...
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Facebook gets in the way of UK teens' homework
TechRadar.com - London,UK
The UK’s 15-to-19-year-olds are spending far less time doing homework
these days due to social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace
and Bebo. ...
Facebook Accomodates Musicians
Digitaltrends.com - Lake Oswego,OR,USA
By Nick Mokey After years of MySpace’s dominance as an outlet and
networking tool for amateur and professional musicians alike,
Facebook has finally jumped ...
'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work
Silicon.com - UK
By Natasha Lomas The tech savvy of 'generation Facebook' is
going down the drain at work, new research has found. People who have left
education in the last ...
Facebook Launches Music Pages
CMJ.com - USA
On Thursday, social networking behemoth Facebook launched its new
music-oriented feature, Facebook Music, which will allow artists and
labels to post and ...
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The refreshing side of Facebook fatigue
By Shane Schick
After cruising a wave of hype and adulation that at times felt like one big online party, Facebook (along with similar social networking sites) is dealing with a rather prolonged morning after. About a month ago, Web measurement firm ...
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Benjamin Ling at Graphing Social Patterns
By Nick O'Neill
Benjamin Ling of Facebook is currently speaking at the Graphing Social Patterns conference. I hate to be overly critical of Facebook but as usual the presentation displays nothing new. Benjamin is giving an overview their new profiles ...
Interesting New Use of Facebook
By Kevin Maney
Martin Varsavsky, the iconoclastic CEO of Fon.com, just posted this update on his Facebook profile: "Martin :job vacancy my coo resigned, amazing org skills? facebook me." Related Links Facebook Page? Or Exhibit A in Court? ...
- http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/the-tech-observer/
Facebook Germany: get 'anklopfenned' by your friends
By Jemima Kiss
Facebook's German-language version launches today, thanks, in no small part, to 2000 German speakers who translated the entire site in less than two weeks. Anyone accessing the site from a German-speaking country (there are more than ...
PDA - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/
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Facebook Platform at Graphing Social Patterns
Digital Podcast News - Long Beach,CA,USA
by Alex Nesbitt Ben Ling, director of Platform Product Marketing at
Facebook, speaks about Facebook’s platform. Ben starts by
telling a story about a dinner ...
Facebook Goes Gunning for MySpace Band Territory
Marketing Vox News - USA
Following news that it would launch a music component where bands can
showcase songs and sell music, Facebook has found an ally in iTunes.
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Facebook users translate the site again, this time to German
BetaNews - USA
By Tim Conneally, BetaNews The translation project that was only announced
at the beginning of the year for Facebook has already made massive
progress with ...
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VideoMap Comes To FaceBook
By Leslie Poston
During DEMO the creators of YourTrumanShow promised the VideoMap would offer a widget that would work with YouTube, FaceBook, MySpace and more. They said the widget would offer a graphic representation of your video connections and ...
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Facebook aspires to the frictionless platform
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Ben Ling, director of product marketing for the Facebook platform,
gave a brief peek of the upcoming profile page update and outlined
Facebook's vision at ...