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Facebook Applications Leaking User Info To 3rd Parties, Says Wall Street Journal

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In the next episode of Facebook’s privacy and user security woes, it’s the already notorious Facebook Applications that are under fire for leaking users’ IDs to third parties, specifically internet research and advertising companies. The news was broken by the Wall Street Journal and thus is being taken seriously. The magazine reports that all of […]

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Facebook Introduces Disposable Passwords For Public Computers

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Accessing your personal email/social media accounts on a public computer can sometimes be dangerous if you’re not careful or forget to log out completely. Sometimes your greasy fingers also leave fingerprints on keyboards which can be used to crack your passwords, not to mention security camera which are now present everywhere and can be used […]

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Facebook Introduces New Features, More Coming Up

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Facebook held a press event yesterday to introduce some new features and also announce that the network will continue to roll out updates and designs in the coming weeks and months. The Facebook redesign wasn’t rolled out yesterday but it’s coming up soon. There were 3 major new features that were unveiled at the event […]

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Facebook Is Changing Again, You’ve Been Warned

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Facebook is holding a press event today (Wed, 6th Oct) at their headquarters in Palo Alto, CA and judging from reports in the media, it’s a big event with the company offering a shuttle service to bring guests to the venue. Inside sources have revealed that Facebook employees and engineers have been working 24/7 for […]

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Facebook & Skype Teaming Up

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Sources from All Things Digital who claim to be familiar with the situation have reported that Facebook is entering in a deal with Skype very soon and that the teaming-up is already come through. Skype 5.0 beta is coming out in the next few weeks and it will be bringing Facebook integration with it. This […]

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Do You Know About Facebook’s Secret Follow Feature?

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Facebook has not released an official announcement or explanation about it, but the network has quietly changed their adding friends procedure. People who send you friend requests, receive your public (“Everyone”) content in their news feed till you hit the ‘Ignore’ button but now Facebook has removed the ‘Ignore’ option altogether and replaced it with […]

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Is Facebook Building A Smartphone?

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The biggest and hottest rumour doing rounds on the net and social media today is about the world’s biggest social media network secretly working on a smartphone. The story was broken by Tech Crunch who claim an inside source within Facebook “who has knowledge of the project.” The report claims that Facebook is building the […]

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New Interactive Trailer For ‘The Social Network’

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Apart from the regular TV interviews that the cast is giving on all major talk shows, the promoters are obviously using all possible online tools available to promote the movie. A movie about the biggest social network in the world will be nothing if not promoted through all possible social media networks available. Film promoters […]

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New Facebook Version For Jailbroken iPhones Released

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If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you might have experienced some difficulty in logging in to Facebook occasionally. Not any more. The app has a new version out, 3.2.2, which fixes the issue for jailbroken devices. You can go to your Updates tab in your iPhone’s App Store application and download the new version. The […]

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Facebook Places Boosts Foursquare Signups

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Foursquare probably expected this and thus agreed on collaborating with Facebook on the Facebook Places project. Facebook is the biggest social network in the world and also has the biggest mobile market share and that’s paying off for Foursquare too. Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley tweetd earlier today that Foursquare set a new record of user […]

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Facebook Launches Location Service & Its iPhone App

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Facebook has officially launched its location based service called Facebook Places in collaboration with the current big players of the field, Foursquare and Gowalla. The service was unveiled in a press ceremony at the Facebook headquarters yesterday where CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that they had been working on the project for the last 8 months […]

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Facebook Scam Alert: The ‘Dislike’ Button Is Fake

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The latest edition of Facebook scams is here: the ‘Dislike’ button. This is to warn users that the fake button is doing the rounds currently on Facebook and appears in people’s status updates with a message saying: I just got the Dislike button, so now I can dislike all of your dumb posts lol!!” or […]

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iOS & Android Users Can Now Call Their Facebook Friends For Free

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All of you iPhone, iPod Touch and Android for mobile users, who also happen to be Facebook addicts, there’s some great news from VoIP giant, Vonage. Now you can call everyone in your Facebook friends list for free. All you have to do is to download and install the Vonage Mobile for Facebook app on […]

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Facebook For Android Overhauled Completely

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Android users have not been the happiest of customers to date when it comes to the Facebook app for their preferred OS. Not any more. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently downloaded the app for his personal use and all users around the world knew that if the CEO feels their pain, he’ll do something about […]

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Facebook’s People Tagging Feature Reported Broken

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Are you having difficulty tagging friends in your status updates using the ‘@’ sign? If yes, chances are you enabled the new publisher rolled out by Facebook for its ‘Facebook Questions’ product released on Wednesday. Facebook officials announced that they’re fixing the problem since the feature is still in the process of rolling out to […]

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Now You Can Put The Facebook ‘Like’ Button On Any Website

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The ‘Like’ button first invented by Facebook now features on more than 350,000 sites worldwide and of course the number is increasing every day. It’s become a very handy tool in customer feedback about all sorts of things; from music videos and photos to status updates and even deciding Facebook competitions held by official fan […]

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