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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. …
myYearbook social network rising
myYearbook, a social network for teenagers that launched in 2005, has raised $13 million in a Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, and First Round Capital. The new round …
Game over for Scrabulous Facebook App
The Calcutta-based brothers who developed the popular online game Scrabulous bowed to legal pressure Tuesday and barred North American users from playing the game on Facebook.
The software developers, Rajat and Jayant Aggarwalla, whose adaptation of …
New facebook layout is adopted by 5% of user base
As a heads up to developers, Facebook noted today that 5% of users have now migrated over to the redesigned version of the site. Some users are opting in, and other users are reporting being …
Facebook integrates Microsoft Live Search
According to a comment made at Microsoft’s Analyst Day today, Microsoft and Facebook are preparing a search and advertising deal that would lead to the integration of Microsoft’s Live Search and search advertising into Facebook. …
App Developers: Facebook layout difficult to navigate
Facebook unveiled a new layout, sporting fresh profile pages designed to help members better organize their social lives. But the redesign is drawing complaints from users who say the new site is difficult to navigate …
iPhone Facebook App has 1 million users
Jed Stremel, Director of Mobile at Facebook, just announced that Facebook’s iPhone iPod app has reached 1 million users. Facebook is currently ranked as the 6th most popular free application on Apple’s App Store, and …
Facebook app Scrabulous against Hasbro
In a move that many have been expecting for a long time, Hasbro, owner of the popular Scrabble game for the past 60 years, has filed a lawsuit against the developers of the popular Facebook …
Brands Get Social for Olympics
With the Olympic Games just a month off, some brands are looking to extend their sponsorships with social media programs. Lenovo has created 100 athletes’ blogs in an attempt to align itself with some less …
Playfish facebook gaming application
If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you’ll notice that Not one is the product of a major gaming publisher. Instead a group of independent gaming …
