31 May 2009
Facebook Is Very Confused About Breasts
Facebook has caved on a decision to ban photos posted by a woman who had surgery for breast cancer, according to reports in Irish newspaper The Examiner.
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29 May 2009
It's Heeerrre: 'Pay With Facebook' Is In The Wild
Earlier today, we wrote about Facebook updating its terms to get ready for the roll-out of its payment system. Well guess what, it’s …
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29 May 2009
Worio Gets Search Discovery From Your Facebook News Feed
Worio, the discovery-based search engine, is integrating with Facebook in order to leverage your Facebook activity to help you find information about the topics of interest to you. By looking at the information on your Facebook profile and the activity of your news feed, Worio can provide recommendations for information you may like. [...]
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28 May 2009
Facebook Announces Final 18 fbFund Participants
This afternoon Facebook has announced this year’s participants in the fbFund incubator program. Two out of the eighteen participants are non-profits, meaning that they will not receive any funding but will still be able to participate in the incubator program. We’ve discussed the fbFund on a number of occasions. Over a week [...]
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27 May 2009
Facebook Updates Payment Terms In Preparation For Payment Platform Launch
Rather than updating its payment terms without notice to users, Facebook has decided to post its payment terms to the Facbeook Governance page and is open for user feedback for the next 3 days. As Joe Sullivan, Facebook’s lead counsel for product posted today, “The new payments terms will replace the existing Terms of [...]
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26 May 2009
Topsy Brings Us One Step Closer To Social Search, Where’s Facebook?
This afternoon Mike Arrington posted about a new search engine called Topsy. The new service is built on the back of Twitter’s API and combines information like retweets, and general user influence to produce relatively accurate search results. It uses a similar algorithm to the one I suggested Facebook should use back in [...]
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25 May 2009
Spammers Getting Desparate With Latest Facebook Phishing Scams
The Facebook phishing scams have continued over the Memorial Day weekend, although it appears Facebook is slowly winning the battle. The latest versions of the scams have used Tinyurls and improperly placed spaces to defeat Facebook’s spam filters. One message I received in the past few minutes simply stated “n u d z [...]
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23 May 2009
Areps.at: Another Facebook Phishing Scam [WARNING]
It’s getting a bit repetitive, but scammers continue to exploit FacebookFacebook reviews with very formulaic phishing scams that more or less do the same.
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23 May 2009
Iran Blocks Facebook Ahead Of Elections
This morning I’ve been receiving numerous reports that Iran has blocked Facebook. After doing a little searching around I found an article stating that it was blocked “to prevent supporters of the leading opposition candidate from using the site for his campaign.” Mir Hossein Mousavi has attracted over 5,200 supporters on the site. [...]
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22 May 2009
Facebook Testing Out Feed Story Feedback Feature
Facebook is the process of testing out a new feedback feature with feed stories. The new feature, which is practically identical to comments, let’s you provide feedback to various users. Why would you want to differentiate between comments and feedback? You probably wouldn’t but as Eric Eldon pointed out back in April, [...]
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