Articles in the Facebook Category
Facebook Games: Top 25 for September
We have just compiled the latest numbers and here are the Facebook gaming charts for September 24, 2008. Click here to view the chart
Playfish’s Pet Society - recently launched in beta - makes its debut …
Facebook Market Share Increased
Web metrics firm Hitwise today released new data on US social networking traffic that shows Facebook increasing in both market share of visits and average time spent compared to this time last year, VentureBeat reports.
Here’s …
Facebook Spam get serious
Websense Security Labs reported yesterday that its malware detection system has discovered a rise in emails posing as Facebook friend requests that actually contain attachments with Trojan horses.
The email’s domain is spoofed to appear from …
New Facebook Layout: What is wrong
A large number of Facebook users expressing discontent about the new layout reaching 3.8 million between two Facebook user protest groups, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergresponded in the Facebook company blog:
It’s tempting to say that we should just …
Facebook Beacon is over (almost)
Last week, there was a little stir in the blogosphere when some users and developers discovered that Facebook’s Beacon service (designed to easily share information about your off-Facebook activity with friends inside Facebook) still exists.
In …
Facebook Ads: Virtual Gifts redesigned
For social media advertisers looking for a way to reach Facebook users, a new “sponsored gifts” unit is now available on the redesigned Facebook home page. The sponsored gifts ad unit follows Facebook’s new social …
Facebook Social Media and Buddy Media partnership
Socialmedia.com, the largest standalone ad network on the Facebook Platform, and Buddy Media, a leading creator of Facebook applications for brands, are today announcing a partnership that will allow brands to execute social media …
Facebook’s White Label Application Platform raises $4.5M
LOLApps, a provider of white label social networking applications, has raised $4.5 million Series A round from Polaris Venture Partners. Polaris’s Mike Hirschland will be taking a seat on the company’s board.
LOLApps’s two primary current …
New Facebook layout goes global
It appears the long transition process from the “old” to the “new,” redesigned Facebook will be completed next week. Facebook’s Josh Elman said today that Facebook will “actively migrate all our users to the new …
Facebook under “attack”
On the Internet, popularity often draws the attention of hackers. So it is not surprising that Facebook has become the target of a spate of attacks, just as the membership on the site has swelled …
Facebook Connect: revolutionary or a privacy invasion?
Some people believe that Facebook Connect will transform the web from the still closed system to a massively social experience - it’s the “always logged-in internet.” On the other hand, the company bringing this web …
Facebook Scrabulous renamed Wordscraper
A day after Scrabulous developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla took the game offline in the US and Canada, the team of Indian brothers has relaunched the game with a new name and board design: Wordscraper. …
