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  • How Facebook Is Redefining Privacy
    By on May 23, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Nearly 500 million people worldwide are on Facebook. Is there a limit to how much we’ll share? CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting there isn’t.

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  • Facebook’s bid to socialise the web
    By on April 23, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Facebook has replaced its Facebook Connect platform with a new set of social plugins which will dramatically expand its presence across the web.

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  • Facebook Patents the News Feed
    By on February 26, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    daedae writes “It seems Facebook has been granted a patent for the news feed, as a method of monitoring activities, storing them in a database, and displaying an appropriate set of activities to an appropriate set of users. ‘That sounds pretty broad, and the social-networking world was all atwitter at the possible ramifications. Writing for ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick proclaimed, “This could be very big. … MySpace, Flickr, Yahoo, Twitter (more…)

  • Facebook Blackmail: Teen sentenced to 15 years [w/video]
    By on February 26, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    A New Berlin teen who pleaded no contest blackmailing his classmates for sex through Facebook was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison. 19-year-old Anthony Stancl apologized during sentencing, saying he has learned to understand what his victims went through.

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  • Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed
    By on January 31, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    VonGuard writes “Facebook has gotten fed up with the speed of PHP. The company has been working on a skunkworks project to rewrite the PHP runtime, and on Tuesday of this week, they will be announcing the availability of their new PHP runtime as an open source project. The rumor around this began last week when the Facebook team invited some of the core PHP contributors to their campus to discuss some new open source project. I’ve written up everything (more…)

  • Facebook Just Got Its Own VitaminWater Flavor… Seriously.
    By on January 10, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Here’s a first. VitaminWater has just announced that its newest flavor will be called “Connect”, complete with a Facebook logo and a full paragraph description loaded with references to untagging, friend requests, and photo stalking.

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  • Facebook’s FarmVille is More Popular Than Twitter
    By on December 6, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Facebook revealed just how many people log on each day and the stats are pretty mind-blowing. The company also noted that one of its apps, ‘Farmville’, is more popular than its major rival in the social-networking world – Twitter.

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  • Gamers Rejoice! Legendary Civilization Is Coming to Facebook
    By on October 23, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    One of the best known video game franchises of all time, Sid Meier’s Civilization, will get a Facebook version under the name Civilization Network.

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  • Xbox 360 Dash Update For Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm [Beta]
    By on October 9, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Microsoft announced the addition of Last.fm, Facebook and Twitter at E3 2009, much to the dismay of ornery antisocialites, promising a 2009 release for those services. With a beta reported to hit this month, it seems things are on schedule.

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  • Burglar Leaves his Facebook Page on Victim’s Computer
    By on September 17, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    The popular online social networking site Facebook helped lead to an alleged burglar’s arrest after he stopped check his account on the victim’s computer, but forgot to log out before leaving the home with two diamond rings.

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