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Phabricator is a very advanced project management solution, developed by Facebook's dev team itself.
Phabricator is a suite of web applications, combined into one massive app dedicated to hosting and managing software repositories.
It allows a group of developers to come together, create and manage coding proj... |
5 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Facebook is getting ready for its IPO so it's putting on a good show, not that it really needs it. With great fanfare and on national television, Mark Zuckerberg himself announced that Facebook users could now announce to the world that they are organ donors.
Apparently, this will contribute to the greater good... |
1 May 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Pinterest may not be selling for $1 billion (yet), but it's one of the hottest things on the web at the moment. While growth rate has slowed down a bit recently, unsurprisingly since it was unsustainably huge for a few months, the site keeps on getting new users and keeps on getting bigger.
Daily unique visitor... |
30 April 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Going from unheard of to global problem in a few weeks, the US Congress now wants to make it illegal to require employees to submit their Facebook passwords on demands. A new bill was introduced with this exact purpose and it applies to schools and universities as well.
The practice has been an issue for years, thou... |
30 April 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Yahoo and Facebook continue to trade blows, in the patent wars Yahoo started. Facebook is bulking up on patents, buying quite a lot of them from iBM and Microsoft. But Yahoo has now filed more claims against Facebook, based on two additional patents, for a total of 12.
"Today’s filing underscores the breadth o... |
28 April 2012
06:50 GMT |
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Rebel Entertainment, a development team made up of a number of veterans from Disney, has revealed that it is working on an MMO type video game that is similar with the Diablo franchise from Blizzard and will use Facebook in order to draw players in. The general manager of Rebel Entertainment is Mike Goslin, who prev... |
27 April 2012
10:24 GMT |
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After winning an appeal and being released from jail, 26-year-old Glenn Mangham, the individual accused of hacking into Facebook by using an employee’s credentials came forward and made a video statement and a blog post to explain his actions.
Initially convicted to 8 months in prison, the Court of Appeal in L... |
27 April 2012
03:02 GMT |
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The Zynga-made social video games continue to be important for the success of social platform Facebook, accounting for about 15 percent of the company’s revenue.
The figure is linked to both virtual goods that are sold by Zynga, of which Facebook gets a cut, and to the advertising that the company pays for to attrac... |
25 April 2012
21:01 GMT |
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With people spending more time on Facebook than on the rest of the web and with close to one billion users, you can imagine that the site is a huge target for those wanting to spread malware, spam and so on.Facebook is taking security very seriously, but all of its measures are for nothing if the users manage to get ... |
25 April 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Social games developer Zynga has plans to become similar to Google when it comes to brand recognition and to continue growing its community of players.
Speaking at the USA Today, CEO Forum Mark Pinkus, the leader of the company, has stated, “If you play our games, if you give us 15 minutes a day, I’m hop... |
25 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Comic book giant Marvel has suggested that it has big video game plans for its Avengers franchise, after launching a Facebook video game based on the superhero team, although it is not clear what developers or publishers it is working with on the new project. TQ Jefferson, the vice president in charge of game produc... |
25 April 2012
03:09 GMT |
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With its initial public offer (IPO) looming, Facebook has published more details of its operations. Apart from the financial aspects, Facebook also updated its user stats. The site now has 901 million monthly active users, people who visit the site or interact with the service in some way at least once a month. That... |
24 April 2012
07:40 GMT |
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The patent war is getting ridiculous but, until the bubble bursts, patents are now fetching dizzying valuations and are sold by the hundreds. Facebook has just announced that it has acquired some 650 AOL patents via Microsoft. If you're getting a sense of deja vu is because Microsoft bought those patents only a ... |
23 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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A number of users have reported that Facebook was blocking an article in The Guardian on Richard O’Dwyer, the owner of the now-defunct TVShack. It seems that the social media site’s filters blocked the content because it made references to the site that once hosted links to copyrighted content. “Ja... |
20 April 2012
08:44 GMT |
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Facebook plans to soon start experimenting with permanently offering IPv6 connectivity for most of its outside facing servers by default. In about a month's time, the beta version of the site will support full-time IPv6 connections, the plan being to roll out support for the new protocol globally by World IPv6 L... |
19 April 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Despite the rise of the digital space gaming, companies still have a lot to do before they manage to create a sustainable relationship with their own players, according to one developer that specializes in social experiences.
Kristian Segerstrale, who is the executive vice president of digital strategy at Electronic... |
18 April 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Sergey Brin rarely posts something publicly on Google+ and, when he does, it's either photos from the places he's been to or about Google's more experimental projects. This time around though, he's posting to declare his admiration for Facebook and Apple.
"I have always admired Apple’s prod... |
18 April 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Facebook is continuing to improve the music experience on the site. The Open Graph enabled a lot of music streaming services to have access to a lot more users. Now it's helping them even more with a Listen button on bands' Facebook pages. The Listen button, as you'd expect, enables users to listen to... |
18 April 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Social game developer Zynga might be ready to announce a direct sequel to the FarmVille game that has powered much of its initial success.
Superannuation has managed to find a copywriter working at Zynga with a CV that states he “contributed concepts and copy for several new business presentations, including t... |
17 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Sony has launched a new Facebook application for its new PlayStation Vita handheld, allowing gamers to upload photos directly to their Wall and their News feed while also introducing the ability to quickly add tags to their images.
All system languages are now supported by the Facebook app and improve the experience... |
17 April 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Facebook is a Frankensteinian website, a very successful one at that, but one put together from bits and pieces, nonetheless. Various features and sections are added, or dropped, each created by a different team, each with its own particularities and its own degree of success.
Facebook's email service is not so... |
13 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Facebook is making an, albeit small, step towards offering users more control over their data and their ability to extract it from Facebook. The Download Your Information feature now contains more details such as past names, friend requests and even IP addresses you used in the past.
"Starting today, you will be abl... |
12 April 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Facebook is going back to its roots, in a way, with the recently introduced Groups for Schools. As the name suggests, the feature is designed to make it easier for people that go to the same school to create groups.
The way it does this is by only allowing people with the same .edu email address to join these groups... |
12 April 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Video game tech developer Gaikai and Facebook have announced that they are partnering to bring the streaming game experience to the world of social networking via a new application that is now in beta stage.
Those who are interested in trying out Gaikai on Facebook need to get the app and make sure that they have bo... |
12 April 2012
08:49 GMT |
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Google unveiled a major redesign of Google+, it's pride and joy of last year. Along with the new design, Google also revealed a interesting morsel of information, it now has 170 million users. That's 170 million registered users, which isn't as relevant as the number of people that actively engage with... |
11 April 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Plenty of people delete their Facebook accounts in a fit of rage or the spur of the moment. Luckily for them, the regular way of doing this doesn't actually delete the account, it just "removes" or "disables" it.This means that the profile won't be visible or searchable, but all of the content will be kept ... |
10 April 2012
19:31 GMT |
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One of the hottest social networks has been acquired by the biggest social network, Instagram by Facebook. You may not think of Instagram as a social network, but that's what it was, it was just centered on photos.
Facebook is said to have paid $1 billion, €764 million for Instagram, a massive amount of mo... |
10 April 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Security expert Gareth Wright identified a security hole in the iOS version of the Facebook app that could allow someone with ill intent to steal user credentials. After further analysis, the folks over at The Next Web determined that Dropbox also presents the vulnerability.
Furthermore, it has been found that not o... |
6 April 2012
05:09 GMT |
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Facebook has responded to Yahoo's patent lawsuit with one of its own. The social network is claiming that the ancient web giant is infringing on 10 of its patents, "its patents" being a relative term since most of them did not originate from within Facebook but were acquired along the way.
For years, but even m... |
4 April 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Facebook fans accessing their profiles on a new-generation iPad can now see everything crystal clear thanks to a recent update to the iOS client.
Facebook has released version 4.1.1 of its dedicated iPad and iPhone application, which includes a ton of new features and enhancements, such as the ability to go offline ... |
3 April 2012
03:22 GMT |
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For the longest time people have speculated on what it would be like for Facebook to enter the search business, and how its intimate knowledge of what you ate last night and who knows about it will help bring up much more relevant results to you personally. Given that Google has taken the same approach with Search +... |
30 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns Syrian internauts, especially those who oppose the current Syrian government, to be on the lookout for shady Facebook posts that lead to a phishing site that’s designed to steal their login credentials.
Since the Syrian government allowed the country’s Inter... |
30 March 2012
05:36 GMT |
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iOS developer IZE Ltd. has re-submitted its iOS app to finally see it approved after two rejections on behalf of the Cupertino, California giant.
Find My Facebook Friends does what its name implies - it finds your Facebook buds, shows you their location on a map, and notifies you when they’re close by so you c... |
28 March 2012
13:11 GMT |
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A start-up in San Francisco believes that the current generation of social games does not live up to their own name and has announced a “holy war” against those titles who lack quality and offer closed experiences rather than helping players discover new social connections.
Jeff Hyman, who is the chief e... |
27 March 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Google may be working on third-party commenting system which is set to launch soon. The platform will be similar to Facebook's comments plugin and will rely on Google+. There's no official confirmation for the move, but it would be an interesting product, even if it's yet another copy of an existing fe... |
27 March 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Zynga has been very successful in delivering bite-sized gaming experiences for mobile device users and for social platform Facebook and it seems that the company now has plans to create technology that allows it to move its games on all platforms, including home consoles.
Speaking to GigaOM, Mark Pincus, who is the ... |
26 March 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Despite the meteoric rise of social gaming, the new genre is not a threat for the traditional gaming concepts on the PC and home consoles.
Mark Pincus, who is the chief executive officer at Zynga, stated, “Our research shows that nearly 70% of people who are playing social games are also watching television. O... |
26 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Planning to fly over Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park any time soon? Better grab smartphone and be sure to peek outside the window and you may notice a huge QR code on the rooftop of one of the buildings. Facebook just moved to new headquarters and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted to make the place a bit more "Fa... |
26 March 2012
10:50 GMT |
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A few weeks ago a new type of Facebook ads made the rounds, the logout page ad. It's the biggest display ad Facebook has to offer and it has some unique, and not quite obvious advantages. One question though was how much do they cost.We have a price now and because of it we know the advertisers Facebook is targe... |
24 March 2012
11:41 GMT |
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With Facebook being a part of everyone's lives these days, it's becoming increasingly common for employers or prospective employers to ask for passwords or access to Facebook accounts. When looking for a job or trying to keep one, you may find yourself complying with that request.Facebook is taking a stand ... |
23 March 2012
13:21 GMT |
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The Playfish division of Electronic Arts has announced that its The Sims Social game, available via Facebook, has received a significant upgrade in the form of Careers, a major addition that changes the way players deal with the work life of their characters.
Careers are unlocked at level seven and allow the various... |
23 March 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Facebook Timeline removal scams are not new, but this time cybercrooks took it up a notch and launched a phishing campaign that relies on the fact that some users are outright desperate to remove the newly introduced feature. In reality, the Timeline is here to stay and like it or not everyone who still wants to use... |
23 March 2012
10:03 GMT |
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Reluctantly perhaps, Facebook is starting to gear up for patent war. The company is said to have acquired some 750 patents from IBM, which has been doing quite a business selling hoards of patents to companies in need, Google in particular.
There's no official word on the deal or on the price. Judging by past t... |
23 March 2012
06:14 GMT |
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Facebook is announcing several improvements to its photo viewer, beyond the new layout and color scheme introduced recently. For one, image size will not dynamically adjust to the size of the screen. You can also go full-screen if you're running a browser that supports the feature.Facebook increased, dramaticall... |
22 March 2012
13:01 GMT |
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For the longest of times, Facebook would bundle all of your contacts as "friends" and be done with it. Granted, it still does that now, but it is taking steps to better separate the different types of contacts in your friends list.
A few months ago, it introduced the Acquaintances list. The name is self-explanatory ... |
22 March 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Soon, mobile phone users might benefit from a new, enhanced experience when it comes to accessing Facebook on their devices.
The company is currently hiring an engineer that would help it “implement the next generation of mobile Facebook products.”
In all fairness, it does not come too much as a surpri... |
22 March 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Facebook has updated its dedicated Messenger application for Apple’s iOS devices to introduce faster and easier ways to start conversations, new languages, and bug fixes.
In addition to improving the single-conversation module, Facebook Messenger 1.6 also enhances the group conversations feature, making it eas... |
21 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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The Chair or Information Communication Technology from University College London, Yvo Desmedt, with the aid of a student called Shah Mahmood, uncovered a flaw in Facebook that allows cybercriminals to almost seamlessly gather data on other customers. According to The Register, the experts demonstrated that by levera... |
20 March 2012
09:16 GMT |
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Dropbox has added a small but quite useful and important feature in the long run, Facebook sharing. Now, instead of providing an email address of the people you want to share a file or folder with, you can simply pick from your Facebook friends.The move is important because the social component is what made Dropbox s... |
19 March 2012
14:01 GMT |
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It seems that a lot of people watched less online videos in February, for the second month in a row. 2 million less people watched a video in the US last month, 179 million down from 181 million, but they also watched less, down from almost 40 billion views to 37.8 billion.The drop seems to have affected YouTube in p... |
17 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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