When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could …
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This morning I posted about Mike Arrington’s article suggesting Facebook is almost in dire straits. At the time I suggested that things may not really be that bad and based on most reports, they aren’t. This afternoon Facebook contacted Venturebeat with a comment on the story:As a matter of policy, we don’t comment [...]
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Earlier this week Bono made headlines after photos of him partying with two 19 year old girls in St. Tropez surfaced on Facebook. The photos were taken by Andrea Feick and apparently were published to her profile. …
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It looks like Facebook has entered a gray area when it comes to users’ personal videos. According to Techdirt Facebook is issuing DMCA takedown notices to users that have copyrighted music playing in the background of their videos. That Facebook has technology to automatically check for copyrighted material in videos is impressive in [...]
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New worm crawling Facebook accounts leads victims to “videos” on Google Reader and Google Picasa pages that in turn link to malicious server sites.
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A few months back, Yahoo! announced that it would be opening up the site’s services to developers in a significant way. This afternoon the company rolled out a big iteration which has a massive social component. …
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GlobalGrind, the hip-hop news aggregator and community, will be announcing tomorrow integration with Facebook Connect. The service which is now available via the GlobalGrind login page imports your photo, birth date, and gender to quickly create an account. The service also lets you invite your friends to GlobalGrind using the Facebook invitation form. [...]
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When it was revealed last week that Facebook has no intention of supporting the Android platform, there was a ton of buzz generated in the blogosphere and I said that it was a horrible business decision by Facebook. I still stand by that position but one thing that had previously been discussed but sounded [...]
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Filed under: Internet, Photo, Macintosh, Web services, Apple, Freeware. Facebook Exporter for iPhoto If you’ve ever wondered what the easiest way is to send photos from iPhoto to Facebook, the answer is Facebook Exporter for iPhoto. …
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The company has released “Scribe,” a product developed internally to help scale the social-networking site, as open-source code.
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