In what appears to be a relatively well planned campaign to build awareness about online security, a group of users (or one individual who has multiple accounts) are systematically going through Facebook Groups which don’t have administrator privileges and taking them over. The individuals, who have accounts under the names “Janis Roukkos” and “Bella [...]
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Some social media sites are less than helpful than others at letting photographers maintain control of their intellectual property, according to a new report. Photographers who take the time to label their photos with copyright metadata …
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The use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote businesses has exploded over the past six months, according to the results of a study that were released today. People using Twitter to get the word out about their …
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While there have been a number of .NET libraries for the Facebook Platform for some time now, today Microsoft is releasing the official Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform. There are a number of core benefits to this upgrade including the ability to easily view native Facebook Platform methods within the Microsoft Development environment with [...]
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This week has been one of controversy surrounding the ongoing reverse mobile billing offers across Facebook applications. It also has been a week of positive updates for developers who were on edge about the impending removal of application notifications. While Facebook didn’t have any big product announcements this week, there was enough controversy [...]
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Offering a popular website or web service is not always a blessing. This especially becomes apparent when you have to deal with security related issues like.
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Less than a month we wrote that Facebook had just trademarked FishVille. Weeks later the company is officially launching FishVille. Happy Aquarium, the application which FishVille is based on, is now the 5th largest application on the Facebook Platform. Given Happy Aquarium’s presence, I’d expect to see FishVille advertisements all over Facebook.So [...]
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This past July, following increased concerns about the ways Facebook Platform ad networks were incorporating user data in their ads and landing pages, Facebook released updated Platform advertising guidelines that more clearly stated …
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At the Web 2.0 Summit a couple weeks ago, Owen Van Natta, CEO of MySpace, told the audience that “I really don’t view Facebook as a competitor.” It’s funny because absolutely every quote from the company in the press over the past couple weeks involves a differentiation from Facebook, and the more they discuss [...]
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Last week, at Facebook’s “roadmap edition” of the Facebook Developer Garage, the company announced a series of large changes to the Platform (19 to be exact). Today, the company just released an FBML Bookmark button, and posted a few …
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