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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!".
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 launched in ArabicMarch 12th, 2009 LONDON - Social networking site Facebook has launched in Arabic, the company has announced. Capturing a potentially huge market in the Middle East and beyond, Facebook, based in Palo Alto, California, already has large numbers of users in the Arab world, and the ability to use it in Arabic is likely to make it even more popular.
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.
'Clever' Oz advertisers keep close watch on Facebookers' updatesSeptember 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Advertising agencies in Australia are keeping a close eye on the pages of the six million Facebook users to update advertisements of products they deem fit as soon as there is some change in the social networking site user's account status. Business houses seem to target potential customers on the social network site according to sex, age, location, relationship status, job title, workplace or university.
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.
Facebook Users Protest Against Facebook RedesignMarch 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.
Brazil's Power.com sues Facebook over access to users' informationJuly 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.
Offer from Russian investor puts value of at least $6.5 billion on FacebookJuly 13th, 2009 Offer puts value of at least $6.5B on FacebookNEW YORK — How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to put it at $6.5 billion to $10 billion. The investment group, Digital Sky Technologies, said Monday it will buy up to $100 million worth of Facebook shares from current and former employees.
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. Although Facebook had opened up access to lite.facebook.com for test only to some selected users, it got temporarily exposed to a larger set of users by mistake.
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