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Article | 4/05/2010 Open letter to Facebook on privacy
Facebook appears to be working diligently at establishing itself as the site that people love to hate. Don't get me wrong, passionate views are a mark...
Article | 9/04/2010 The rise of Facebook gaming
Facebook video game designers, including the creator of Civilization series Sid Meier, talk about the jump from developing traditional games to making...
Article | 31/03/2010 Geolocation 101: How it works, the apps, and your privacy
Facebook wants to know "What's on your mind?" Twitter asks "What's happening?" But that's getting old already. The burning question for the next wave ...
Article | 27/02/2010 Does Facebook's newsfeed patent threaten social media?
Facebook has been awarded a patent for "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network."
Article | 24/02/2010 Dear Facebook, act like a grown-up about security
Dear Facebook, I appreciate your service. I really do.
Article | 5/02/2010 Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?
The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communicatio...
Article | 13/01/2010 Facebook tracks your every move, employee claims
Facebook is tracking your every move on the site -- or so says one purported Facebook employee, according to an anonymous interview with the Rumpus. I...
Article | 12/01/2010 Facebook CEO challenges the social norm of privacy
Lost in the flurry of products announcements at last week's Consumer Electronics Show was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's suggestion on Friday that som...
Article | 2/01/2010 Watch Facebook friends without a browser in Fishbowl
The experimental Fishbowl for Facebook application connects you with all your Facebook data without a browser. Its layout differs somewhat from what y...
Article | 3/12/2009 Why privacy concerns are ruining Facebook
Facebook was built as a powerful social connector, allowing users to befriend others with similar interests, locations, schools, and more.
Article | 13/11/2009 Facebook Tips: Staying Safe While Using Games and Apps
If you're one of the 63.7 million people playing the popular Farmville game on Facebook, you've probably noticed a change in how you earn points. Farm...
Article | 12/11/2009 Facebook invasion: Beware of new 'smart' worm
Hot on the heels of a reported hijacking of hundreds of Facebook groups, a new variation on an old worm is crawling its way into the social network's ...
Article | 11/09/2009 Facebook unveils Twitter-like '@' tagging
Facebook is taking another step toward Twitterfication with the introduction of a new "@"-based tagging system for status updates.
Article | 31/08/2009 The 10 stupidest tech company blunders
Some of the biggest high-tech deals never happened. Some of the most promising products and services never came to be. Why? Because the people and com...
Article | 28/08/2009 Facebook to tighten privacy after Canadian investigation
Facebook will enhance its social-networking site's privacy features over the next 12 months as a result of a set of recommendations from the Canadian ...