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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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Facebook Video Scam Alert, Several Doing Rounds Today

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There’s another spate of Facebook Scams going viral on the social network today and this time they’re spreading through apparently shocking video links. The links appear in users’ status updates with attention grabbing descriptions and if you click on the link, you’ll be asked to take a number of surveys which is nothing but a [...]

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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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Facebook Reaches 500 Million Users, ‘Thanks’, Says Mark Zuckerberg

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It was made official on the company’s blog this morning by the CEO himself who also posted a picture thanking the 500 million citizens of the Facebook country. The blog post by Mark Zuckerberg says “I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years [...]

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Facebook Founders Speak About The Facebook Movie

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After the first 2 trailers of ‘The Social Network’ which showed no scenes from the movie but only a photo of Jesse Eisenberg and background dialogues, Yahoo Movies released a full length trailer unveiling footage for the first time on Thursday. The trailer has been generating a lot of interest online and Sony Pictures is [...]

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Facebook iPhone App Keeps Crashing, Thousands Of Complaints Pouring In

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All iPhone users (all models) have been reporting furiously online about the iPhone app for Facebook crashing repeatedly with no solution is sight still. While some users also reported it getting back to normal but the majority still have the app refusing to load and re-installing doesn’t help. The biggest number of complaints was reported [...]

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Can Zuckerberg Lose 84% of Facebook Shares?

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The situation proves the tagline of the up coming movie (The Social Network) on Facebook’s CEO’s life correct. You really can not get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. The latest addition to Mark Zuckerberg’s woes and foes is a law suit filed on June 30th by a New Yorker called Paul [...]

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Facebook Fever Killing Orkut In India

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India and Brazil are the biggest Orkut using countries in a Facebook and Twitter crazy world but things are changing very fast in India in favour of Facebook. Data from ComScore reveals that Facebook attracted 18 million unique visitors from India in the month of May, compared to Orkut’s 19.7 million. In the past year [...]

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What’s Still Wrong With Facebook’s Privacy Controls

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Facebook has been on a major damage control spree for the past few weeks regarding its privacy controls and has introduced simpler and easier to understand options and lots of new features too. The company though has addressed quite a few issues based on users complaints from around the world but has chosen to ignore [...]

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Facebook’s New Face Detection Technology Makes Tagging Easier

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Sharing photos with friends and family on Facebook is one of the top most user activities and about 100 million photos are uploaded to the network every day. As if uploading 220 photos of your wedding, vacation or graduation is not tedious enough, tagging several people in each of the photographs is a drag. Facebook [...]

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Facebook Introduces A Simpler Application Permission System

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Facebook’s privacy settings woes seem far from over as the company continues to roll out simpler versions of several of its functions. The latest is a much simpler application permission system where third party apps specify exactly what data they need to access and gives users the option to opt out later if they wish. [...]

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‘Google Me’ The New Facebook Competitor?

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Talking about social media must be a sore, if not taboo, topic over at the Google headquarters. The world leaders in a number of online services have still to create a decent presence in the field which is fast becoming internet users’ biggest playground. Social media has changed the way we communicate, promote, earn and [...]

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Watch The First Trailer Of ‘The Facebook Movie’

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After releasing a poster last week, Columbia Pictures has released the first trailer of ‘The Social Network’, its upcoming movie capturing the creation of Facebook. As reported earlier, the movie is partially based on the book ‘The Accidental Billionaires’ and chronicles the birth of world’s biggest social network in a Harvard dorm room by a [...]

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First Poster For ‘The Facebook Movie’ Unveiled

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Columbia Pictures, one of Hollywood’s leading film companies, has released the first poster for ‘The Social Network’ or ‘The Facebook Movie’ as most people are calling it. The movie, set to be in theatres this October, tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the little social networking site he created in his Harvard dorm room [...]

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