31 Oct 2009
I’m facing an anniversary soon: I will have worked at Facebook for four years. I was originally drawn to the company for the opportunity to help build a technology that enables people to model their social network and interact with it …
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30 Oct 2009
Jed Stremel, Facebook’s Director of Mobile who has been with the company for four years, has resigned, according to a post on his …
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30 Oct 2009
I’m not sure when this happened but it appears Google now indexes over 52 million Facebook groups. Facebook has told us that all “open” groups (via privacy settings) have always been indexable, however the amount of information available to Google has always been in flux. At one point discussion threads within Facebook groups [...]
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29 Oct 2009
Back in June I wrote about a ruling against Sanford Wallace, who is one of the most well known spammers. As of today, the case as been settled and “California awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against Sanford Wallace”. Additionally, Wallace now faces possible jail time. Despite the massive settlement, it’s unlikely [...]
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29 Oct 2009
Now that the dust is settling on the newly launched Google Music (if you don’t yet have it in your normal Google search …
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28 Oct 2009
Blogger and techie Sean Bonner offers a dead simple way to keep all of your Facebook events synced up with your Google Calendar so you don’t have to manage two completely separate social calendars to keep your days straight.
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28 Oct 2009
Today Facebook is making a number of announcements about changes to the platform at Facebook. We’ll be covering all of the changes as reported via today’s live stream. If you’re wondering why we aren’t covering the event from Facebook HQ, it’s because we’re based out of D.C.! If you’d like to sponsor [...]
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19 Oct 2009
Last week we wrote about Facebook testing out a new design for Facebook groups which is almost identical to Facebook Pages. As of today, that new design has become official. One significant component of the upgraded version of groups is that updates to them will now be delivered to the homepage News Feed. [...]
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19 Oct 2009
A new Facebook document intended for brand advertisers reveals forthcoming redesign changes to its home page…. Most of the contents will be familiar to our readers, and the screenshots in the document are blurrier than what’s already …
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18 Oct 2009
VoIP startup TringMe has launched a Facebook application that lets users make calls from the social network using its Flash-based web phone for …
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