Facebook to shut down Beacon tracking tool as part of class-action settlementSeptember 21st, 2009 Facebook shuts down thorny marketing toolNEW YORK — Facebook is closing an uncomfortable chapter in its five-year history. The social network says it will shut down Beacon, a program that tracks users' activities on other Web sites.
Beware: As if fakes weren't enough, Facebook has got Robot chatters nowMay 7th, 2009 LONDON - A robot is being given its own Facebook profile page in a bid to bridge the divide between humans and robots. With the development, researchers are hoping to foster meaningful relationships with people.
1800-Flowers.com launches store within Facebook, a first for the online hangoutJuly 29th, 2009 Flower shop launches first Facebook storeNEW YORK — In a first, but likely not last for Facebook, a retailer is setting up shop inside the popular social-networking site. Flower and gift retailer 1-800-Flowers.com plans to announce Wednesday it has opened a retail store to let people shop for its products directly through Facebook.
UN panel orders Iranian to hand facebook.ir Web address to social networking siteJuly 28th, 2009 UN orders Iranian to give up Facebook Web addressGENEVA — Social networking site Facebook has won control of a Web address using its name and the country suffix .ir for Iran. The U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization says current owner Majid Karimian Ghannad of Yazd, Iran, has to transfer the domain name — facebook.ir — to the U.S.-based site.
5 FaceBook Source Code SecretsAugust 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.
Opposite Poles Attract: Facebook joins hands with Google for Android appJuly 29th, 2009 Things went topsy-turvy as Facebook was heard to be launching an official app for Google's Android. While a month ago, Google co-founder Larry Page was seen in a sullen mood after Facebook dropped a big investment plan by the search engine major, which arch-rival Microsoft swept away from under their nose.
Facebook to give its core access to developersApril 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.
My First Facebook SpamDecember 27th, 2007 My first Facebook spam:
Subject: Mi Chai invited you to join the group "I'M A CHRISTIAN..AND I'M PROUD TO SAY IT!!"... Mi invited you to join the Facebook group "I'M A CHRISTIAN..AND I'M PROUD TO SAY IT!!".
Google, Facebook launch Farsi services to help Iranian protestors communicate directlyJune 20th, 2009 LONDON - To help Iranians "communicate directly" to the world in the wake of the growing protests in the country, Google has unveiled a Farsi translation service, while Facebook has launched a version of its site in Persian. The Internet has played a key role in allowing some Iranians to communicate since last week's disputed presidential elections, and many international media outlets have used services like Twitter and emails in their coverage, The Telegraph reports.
Facebook Turns to Real Time Web InteractivityMarch 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.
Facebook Loses Weight; Turns to Facebook LiteAugust 13th, 2009 If MySpace can have a Lite View Version why not Facebook? In a bid to take on its arch-rival, the Social networking giant rolled out a slimmer version of its web site to the test audience. Facebook Lite is the new face of Facebook targeted at narrowband users.
Facebook brought in more money than it spent in previous quarter, ahead of 2010 goalSeptember 15th, 2009 Facebook says it's bringing in more than it spendsSAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it is now bringing in more money than it is spending. The social networking site had previously said it expected to achieve this goal sometime next year.
Facebook Chief Privacy Officer may run for Calif. Attorney General in 2010April 30th, 2009 Facebook exec considers California AG job in 2010
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The chief privacy officer of networking Web site Facebook says he's considering running to be California's attorney general in 2010.
Facebook, taking cue from MySpace, plans to let users show full name in their Web addressJune 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.
Faster, simpler Facebook Lite site available in India, USSeptember 12th, 2009 LONDON - Social networking site Facebook has launched a slimmed-down version of its site for people with slow or poor Internet connections, and it is currently available only in India and the US. Facebook's Lite site, which will be faster and simpler because it offers fewer services than the main site, had initially been meant to support users in developing countries, where bandwidth constraints make the current version too slow to use.