Brits are world’s biggest Facebook fans

August 10th, 2009 LONDON - Many Britons are apparently applying computerised techniques to their holiday photographs to make themselves appear attractive, and then posting them online. Thousands are said to be turning to the airbrushing act to improve their appearances in snaps taken during trips, and uploading them on websites like Facebook.

September 3rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - As part of a controversial scheme to expose users to online marketing, an Aussie company called uSocial is offering to sell off Facebook friends by the thousands. The Brisbane-based company is best known for buying votes on social news service Digg, selling followers on Twitter, and running large marketing campaigns on social media.

March 5th, 2009 After it's failed attempts to acquire Twitter, Facebook has come up with new strategies. It has incurred a number of changes to the homepage/newsfeed.

May 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace might be a great way of meeting new people, but they are turning British people into introverts, a new survey has found. In the study led by market research company Mintel, over 50 pct of the adults revealed that they spend more time chatting online than they do actually speaking to friends and family.

June 10th, 2009 Facebook, like MySpace, lets users show full nameNEW YORK — Facebook is further embracing the real name culture it touts as one of its founding principles — and catching up with rival MySpace in the process. Starting at 12:01 a.m.

August 5th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Social networking website Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth most trafficked website in the world, technology blog TechCrunch has reported. In June this year, Facebook attracted a total of 340 million unique visitors globally, trailing only Google, Microsoft and Yahoo sites, the report said, citing latest results from market research firm comScore.

May 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's tech-savvy administration has taken another leap into cyberspace with the roll-out of 'White House 2.0.' linking it to social networks MySpace and Facebook and hot micro-blogging service Twitter. 'Today the White House is taking steps to expand how the administration is communicating with the public,' the White House blog said Friday announcing the additions to the recently launched official Flickr photostream.

July 10th, 2009 Power.com sues Facebook over access to users dataNEW YORK — A small Web company is handing the world's biggest online hangout a counterpunch. Power.com has sued Facebook, saying the site doesn't follow its own policy of giving users control over the content they share.

March 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - More than 1.7 million Facebook users have joined a protest against another redesign of the popular social networking site, in one of the biggest consumer revolts seen in the online world. As of midday Monday, the Facebook group called Petition Against the New Facebook had 1,727,394 disgruntled members, while a Facebook-sponsored poll on the redesign had received more than 1.2 million votes, with just 75,000 approving the new look.

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - Mafia mobsters are using social networking site Facebook to attract wannabe gangsters. Sicilian gangsters are targeting members who have joined online groups dedicated to Cosa-Nostra's godfathers.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Beatles' fans have a reason to rejoice after a company developed a software that allows users to play and recreate individual elements of the band's instruments. According to Timothy Self, of Propellerheads, the new computer software provides fans an imitation of studio two at Abbey Road that saw the group record several of their albums.

September 3rd, 2009 Marketing company sells clients Facebook friendsSAN FRANCISCO — On Facebook, most people make friends the old-fashioned way — by sending a request to be added to someone's posse of pals. Now, an Australian marketing company hopes to save you time and energy by simply buying you a few thousand buddies.

December 12th, 2008 We have always had a close look at Facebook right from the start. As you probably know by now that we have discussed 10 ways to connect facebook to other social networking media and Top 30 Newest Facebook Apps to Brighten Up 2009 and people liked it.

August 15th, 2007 I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company.

April 27th, 2009 The most popular social networking site on a global scale, Facebook is trying to welcome developers by keeping some of the core floodgates open so that they get familiar with the system in a better way. If you remember well, most of the recent changes in Facebook has brought about agitation from the Facebook crowd.