When Facebook launched the new Facebook Pages system, some people wondered if the level of spam was about to increase. Additionally, in the past week Facebook added a new setting to the application privacy settings that enables users to disable email notifications. Some suggested that this was a new feature that enabled applications to send […]
This morning I awoke thinking about one thing: will “is” be gone from my status updates? Apparently it is not gone yet. If you noticed, yesterday’s article title included a question mark. All that has been changed is the development side of things. I have received reports from individuals that have been able to remove […]
MoveOn.org is doing everything it can to stop Facebook’s Beacon campaign. Apparently there’s a Facebook group to create protest and an online petition.
The philosophy behind Facebook Beacon is to trace user’s online activities outside Facebook and share em” via news-feeds in friend profiles. Nick’s Ironical comment sums it up - If I purchase […]
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Caroline McCarthy has posted a great story about MoveOn.org’s launch of an anti-Facbeook Beacon campaign. The campaign consists of a paid ad campaign on Facebook protest group and an online petition. Just yesterday I was speaking with a journalist who pinged me for more details about Facebook’s Beacon system. He had purchased a new pair […]
Facebook finally caved to user demands and has agreed to drop the “is” from status updates. Now you can say things like “Jordan loves to update her status every hour” instead of “Jordan is loving to update her status every hour.”
As you would imagine, Facebook is littered with groups demanding this change, including the Campaign […]
A Facebook group with 121 members is going all out to save 31 post offices across south wales. The campaign had gone online a little while back with efforts of Plaid Cymru who is Assembly Member for South Wales Central Leanne Wood.
According to the site’s declaration “We call on Post Office Limited to reconsider its […]
Google (!) is hosting the Bay Area Facebook Developers meetup tonight at 6:45pm in Mountain View…
7pm: Open Social API
Speaker: Patrick Chanezon, Google Developer Advocate
Moderated by Dave McClure, 500 Hats.
8pm: Demos by Facebook Developers
1. iThink by Raymond Rouf
2. OpenSocket by Dan Lester (a proof of concept that embeds OpenSocial gadgets inside Facebook)
3. PuzzleBee by Markus Weichselbaum
4. […]
Last week, Dank Apps announced $250,000 funding from Bay Partners as part of the AppFactory program. Dank Apps is the developer of The Lotto, which has gained popularity by offering daily cash prizes to Facebook users. I spoke with Dank co-founder (and Graphing Social viral strategy co-panelist) Jason Beckerman about the funding and his company’s […]
TechCrunch has the story tonight of Facebook’s $85 million offer for Zhanzuo.com, the largest college-focused social networking site in China, with over 7 million users. Zhanzuo’s CEO Jack Zhang and Mark Zuckerberg have been in discussions, but nothing official has been announced yet.
About Zhanzuo, according to its site:
Like the popular SNS website in the US, […]
Facebook Users Will Soon be Able to Vote On News Feed Items
According to Valleywag, Facebook employees are currently beta testing a news feed item voting system. There is no word on if or when this feature will be made public. The idea behind the voting system is simple. As an new items appear on your […]
Allfacebook received an email today from Boris Silver, the developer behind the Total Sports Fan application, regarding a hacked forum. Although Total Sports Fan is a third party app, the forum functionality is actually part of Facebook, indicating a breach within Facebook itself. The hacked forum contained the same repeated, incoherent message as […]
For most people, Facebook means keeping in touch with your friends. For others it means keeping in touch with your family and professional contacts as well. According to the Turskish Daily News, Facebook has also turned into a place for finding people for sexual encounters. Given that the writer of the article […]
While Facebook seems to be going guns blazing with english users, it seems that very soon we’d have Facebook in new languages. (;) does this mean localized version of the site or simple translation ?). I can guarantee you that there’d be a huge upsurge in the number of Facebook users once this happens
There are […]
I’ve been thinking more and more about OpenSocial recently. Today, I spoke with Hooman Radfar, CEO of Clearsping after they announced their decision to support OpenSocial. I asked him why his company wasn’t going to be rendered useless by OpenSocial. Why would I say that his company’s services could be rendered useless? […]
The Facebook Ads page on the Facebook developer wiki has new information about the integration points available to Facebook developers building for pages:
Facebook Pages expands the social graph by enabling brands, businesses, celebrities, and other entities to have a presence on Facebook…Facebook Pages provide a business with a profile similar to a user profile, with […]