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- Facebook
- A very popular social networking site founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. It initially targeted Harvard students, but was later opened to other universities and then high schools. ...
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- Facebook - Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?
- What on earth are Facebook doing? Imagine going into a stationery store and buying a Filofax personal organizer and then over time filling it with personal contacts info, photos and notes. You come home one night and it's no longer...
- Tags: Facebook, Security, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- IT lessons from Facebook's user name launch
- Facebook has detailed some of the backend moves as it prepared to roll out usernames to 200 million users. The blog post is the latest in Facebook's effort to allow us peak behind the scenes a bit. Facebook allowed its 200 million users to pick names while...
- Tags: Facebook, Information Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- News to know: Facebook privacy, Windows 7, Kindle, Firefox 3.5
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down Ed Bott: Microsoft to offer Family Pack...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Andrew Nusca, Privacy, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down
- Facebook is preparing to roll out new privacy settings - some of which includes tearing down the closed Facebook wall and opening the data to the general public. (Statement, Techmeme) But before anyone goes into panic mode, it's important to note that the company is going to...
- Tags: Facebook, Wall, Construction, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- MyDeskFriend: Robotic penguin connects you to your Facebook friends
- MyDeskFriend: Robotic penguin connects you to your Facebook friendsSimilar to NabaztagThat's a rabbithttp://www.ztore.net/eu/index.php?cPath=23&osCsid=c02c7ccda11feb44da9ca9463dd53851
- Tags: MyDeskFriend, Robotic, penguin, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- MyDeskFriend: Robotic penguin connects you to your Facebook friends
- It's no lie that people love penguins. Just look at the slew of penguin movies that have come out in the last few years: "Happy Feet," "March of the Penguins," "Madagascar," and the list goes on. So, to aid in our obsession, Swiss company Arimaz has...
- Tags: Facebook, Friend, MyDeskFriend, Robots, Telecommunications, Emerging Technologies, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Too many social networks? GizaPage puts them all into one social home page
- In case you hadn't heard, all the cool kids are going "vanity" these days - vanity Facebook URLs, vanity phone numbers on Google Voice and now vanity social networking pages where all of your profiles, from Facebook and Twitter to Flickr and YouTube, can be viewed and managed from one...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, GizaPage, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Facebook hires former Genentech exec as CFO
- Facebook today announced the hiring of David Ebersman, the former executive vice president and chief financial officer CFO of Genentech, as the company's chief financial officer. He won't join the company until September. Techmeme Back in March, the company started the search for a new CFO before...
- Tags: Facebook, Genentech Inc., CFO, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, IPO, Business Operations, Finance, Financial Services, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- News to know: Vizio; Apple-Psystar; Buffett; Facebook status; Palm Pre; AT&T
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sean Portnoy: Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans Sam Diaz: Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Facebook makes status updates available to the public
- I am not one of those people who thinks Facebook is trying to be more like Twitter. They actually had status updates before Twitter, but they were never as public or simple as Twitter. Today, they take a step into the open statusphere by letting you publish your status updates...
- Tags: Facebook, Status, Twitter, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Want To See (And Talk About) What Your Friends Are Buying? Zappos Set To Introduce 'Social Shopping'
- Zappos, the online retailer of shoes and clothing, is about to become a social networking site, borrowing aspects of Twitter and Facebook and applying them to their customers’ particular passion: buying stuff. CEO Tony Hsieh Wednesday confirmed to Between The Lines that it is working on an...
- Tags: Facebook, Customer, Twitter, Zappos, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Guess 1.0 (Mobile)
- Guess is a game where you have to guess how many objects are there in the picture within 10 seconds. The closer you guess to the actual number, the more points and high ranking you get. Every time you are given 20 patterns randomly selected. Guess features 50 different patterns,...
- Tags: Facebook, Mobile, J2sighte, Construction, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-06-24
- Would your students hand over their passwords to Bozeman?
- Would your students hand over their passwords to Bozeman?This will go down on your permanent record!"This will go down on your permanent record!" as the schoolteachers used to say to me on the way to the principal's office.... so now EVERYTHING written in social networking websites is like a grade...
- Tags: password, Bozeman, students hand, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-06-20
- Facebook launches in Persian to support communications around events in Iran
- Facebook tonight has released a test version of its site available in Persian. The social network claims that amidst this week's Twitter use for communication around events in Iran, its users were sharing content in Persian, however the site navigation was only available in English. This change will make it...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Iran, Language Translation, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Facebook testing real-time search before Twitter becomes defacto
- Facebook testing real-time search before Twitter becomes defactoCompetition is a good thing when you're in it...FB vs TwitterKeywords "public forum." Facebooks control access to the public. If they opened the network, would be no need to catch up to twitter. Facebook feels like prison, locked down to one...
- Tags: SEARCH, real-time search, Facebook, Twitter, Real-time Search, defacto
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Facebook testing real-time search before Twitter becomes defacto
- Facebook has announced the testing of a new feature that would allow its members to search the site for things their friends and others are saying and sharing about particular topics - from links and comments to photos and videos - all in real time. Yes, I...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- TweetDeck 1.0 (Mobile)
- TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what's happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up to date. With TweetDeck anyone can tweet like a Pro....
- Tags: Facebook, Mobile, Twitter, TweetDeck, Aerospace & Defense, Patches, Desktops, Manufacturing, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-06-17
- Facebook Marketing - How to make Money Marketing on Facebook 2.0 (Windows)
- One of the most important things in an Internet Marketing business is a list of contacts. Just as in any other business, online businesses also need to build relationships with their customers. Facebook is an outstanding way to build a targeted list quickly. Subscribers are the contacts on your lists...
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows, Free Autoresponce, Marketing Research, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Marketing, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-06-16
- News to know: Nokia; Salesforce; Mozilla; Google; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing and open source face-off...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Flaw, Palm Inc., Mozilla Corp., Keyboards, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Peripherals
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Six things to know if your Facebook username has been squatted
- Six things to know if your Facebook username has been squattedRelated problemThere is a possible related problem. A number of years ago some jerk who hates Dustin Diamond, who played "Screech" on the TV show [i]Saved by the Bell[/i] registered DustinDiamond.com when the Web was in its infancy. He then...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-06-14

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