Majesco Announces Bananagrams for Facebook
	Casual game publisher extraordinaire Majesco says that it is planning to make a move to Facebook, in an effort to broaden its portfolio of games and to attract a bigger audience. It has chosen developers Rocketbowl and the Shapshot Studio of Large Animal Games to create Bananagrams. The game, due for an August release, will be made available to interested players via social networking platform Facebook, in the form of a widget. [ADMARK= ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2008, 03:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Goes Polyglot and Open-Platform
	Facebook announced the start of a program that would enable users to connect to other online applications and websites, without the need to authenticate their sessions each time they log on. Through feeds, Facebook users can now connect and share different information from partners like CBS.com, Red Bull, Twitter, Disney-ABC Television Group, CNET and many others. The Facebook account can be used for an easy certification across the web, w ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2008, 05:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Two Brand New Flash Games for Facebook
	The online experience of Facebook users is becoming increasingly thrilling by the day. CasualCafe, a company that develops and delivers browser games for different platforms, signed a partnership with Facebook, which would enable the social network's users to get their hands on two brand new Flash based games. The first of them, Spyde Solitaire, has the background of the famous Spider version of the card game Solitaire. ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 08:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virtual Reality Applications Can Improve Your Social Skills
	Although online applications that imply some virtual reality features are often criticized by those who consider them barriers to real life interaction, studies prove there really is no need to worry. Eryn Grant, a PhD student at the School of Humanities, Queensland University of Technology, conducted a study that should put all skeptic minds at ease. The researcher created an account on Second Life and, by analyzing other people's co ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 08:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

studiVZ Claims Facebook Is Jealous
	As we previously reported, Facebook has entered a legal action against what seems to be an exact copy of the American social network. Although the formal announcement of the lawsuit has not been made yet, studiVZ, the company that was accused of plagiarism, has released a quite intriguing state ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Design for Facebook
	Facebook has released a new design in order to make the management of the webpage easier, as well as to allow users to upload more content to their personal pages. The Wall is probably the most interesting feature the team from Facebook made available. Designed as a forum, it allows users to upload photos, videos and content from third-party applications. Furthermore, users' friends can leave comments related to the content, which mak ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 03:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Lookalike Sued
	Facebook's popularity makes some take on the recipe without worrying about copyrights, hoping that the benefits will outrun the risks. This did not prove very efficient for StudiVZ, a German social network for students whose "look, feel, features and services" are incredibly similar to Facebook's, as the company's officials stated for the ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2008, 05:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Private Profile Info Leaked by Facebook
	Facebook has failed to provide the necessary security measures for the users that have specifically requested that information provided by them remains private. According to Sophos, company that specializes in providing antivirus and antispam security solutions, Facebook has accidentally made public the birth dates of about 80 million users. Sophos has informed the social networking site on the situation and the problem has been remedied. ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ils Adorent Google
	Google's supremacy on the search engines market is guaranteed for a long while from now on. The case of France, which is one of the most devoted markets to Google's search engine, supports this affirmation. A study provided by comScore reveals that, in May, 82% of the French Internet users conducted their searches with the specified SE. Although Groupe Pages Jaunes, a national search tool, came in second place, the difference bet ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 09:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lawyers Rely on Social Networks Not Only for Their Private Interests
	Lawyers too follow the trends and use, in a high percentage, the online social networks. 67% of the lawyers aged between 25 and 35 have an account on one of the networks LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook or MySpace, as a survey shows. The percentage decreases as the age grows; 49% of the attorneys from the 36-45 category use online social networks, while only 36% of the ones who have reached the age of 46 and more are interested in socializing on ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook's New (Beta) Face
	On July 14, Facebook is launching a beta version of the users' profile design. As Pete Bratach, Facebook developer, says on the official blog, users can opt for a new appearance of the entire website, a feature that is now available only for ''sandbox,'' an applic ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 11:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Electronic Arts and Hasbro Aim to Push Scrabulous out of Facebook
	When Electronic Arts closed a deal with Hasbro regarding the use of its Monopoly brand (EA is clearly interested in such titles) and of other intellectual property, there were many people thinking that Scrabble would be one of the first games to be re-done in an ele ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Ten Most Visited U.K Sites Account for 30% of the Market
	Britons are heavy Internet users. As a study conducted by Nielsen Online shows, between June 2007 and May 2008, the average number of minutes spent monthly by the U.K citizens on the Internet surpassed 33 million. The leader, with 2,626 minutes and 7.8% of the market share, is MSN Messenger. The first runner up, getting 1,630 minutes per month ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2008, 09:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rock Band Moves to Facebook
	Microsoft has started a campaign called Xbox 360, presenting Rock Band Live, which will eventually reward some lucky fans in the UK, Germany and France (a total of eleven people) with a week at the Ibiza Rocks Hotel. But, since many Rock Band fans do not live in the mentioned countries and Microsoft doesn't like to let people behind when it comes to its game, it has created something awesome, something everybody can experien ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Adds More Sites for Mini Feed
	Facebook, one of the biggest social networking websites, has recently received a new feature - that enhances one of its already released features, namely Mini-Feed. The fellows at Facebook worked out a way to make its users import stories from other sites directly in their Mini-Feed. This new ability was ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Works on Major Update to Become More Spam-Resistant
	Facebook, the so-popular social networking website, is currently working on a major update which will bring several improvements to the service. One of the most important updates is related to the security of its users because Facebook wants to make the profiles more spam-resistant and reduce the amount of spam messages delivered to Facebook members. Moreover, thanks to user feedback, the Facebook administrators find out that mos ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 04:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Now Hosts Cellufun Mobile Games
	Cellufun and Facebook announced the beginning of a collaboration that brings more than 40 mobile games for all the visitors of Facebook's website. More exactly, Cellufun came up with a "Facebook application" hosted on the famous social networking site, whi ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 09:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook CEO Wants to Talk to Google
	Last week, Google released their Google Friend Connect product, which has been said to make non-social websites offer social networking capabilities. The new product has also been advertised to increase the traffic level of a particular website, thus enabling it to generate a higher revenue. It appears that new product made Facebook, the social networking site, block Google access, citing privacy concerns as the main reason in do ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook to Release Jabber/XMPP Support
	Facebook wants to become an even more powerful player on the social networking market by using an instant messaging platform, AllFacebook, an unofficial Facebook blog wrote today. According to the same source, the new platform will come with support for Jabber/XMPP support chat, which me ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 09:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Says Yes to Child Safety
	Social networking websites, like Facebook, MySpace, hi5 are a common place for children. Under 18 users who have profiles on the above mentioned sites are susceptible to abuse from adults pretending to be minors. This problem has been reported in the US for quite some time now and legal measures against it have been required by the general public. Regarding this particular issue, Facebook is reported to have reached an agreeme ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 11:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Fans Destroyed the Millennium Square Garden
	Today's social networks have an amazing influence over their users, the number of the registered members being absolutely huge, somewhere near millions. The most recent proof is a water fight set up by a Facebook user who managed to gather no less than 350 other members in the United Kingdom. The only problem is that the Facebook fans simply destroyed the Millennium Square Garden, causing damages of thousands of pounds. A ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 09:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

FaceBook, Running on 10,000 Web Servers Near You
	The extremely popular social networking website Facebook met a huge growth since it was first launched on February 4, 2004. The user influx and the increased amount of horsepower required to run a Web 2.0 site led to significant infrastructure upgrades that extended the number of Facebook servers. The social networking service now spreads across two data centers and counts no less than 10,000 servers hosting the profiles of m ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook's Recommended Browsers: Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox
	Phishing scams and Facebook are two of the most popular web-related things these days although they have pretty different meanings and purposes. Phishing scams are extremely dangerous attacks, usually launched via email addresses, which attempt to steal users' private information through a fake website which looks similar to a legitimate one. On the other hand, Facebook is one of the most known services on the web, being a s ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Makes People Rich
	Facebook is a phenomenon these days and anybody must admit it since the entire web talks about this social network. And because it's so powerful and popular, Facebook is able to turn a simple man into a huge star over night. This is exactly what happened in Calcutta, India after two brothers created a Facebook game and made it available through the social networking website. The game, entitled Scrabulous, is an online ver ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 17:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Employees To Quit Their Jobs If Companies Block Facebook
	I have to say just from the beginning that I'm not one of those Facebook-addicted fans and I have only created an account for testing purposes. Maybe I'm a little bit subjective, but I can't really understand people's addiction to Facebook, and to social networks in general. OK, Facebook is great, I admit it, but from creating an account on such a website to quitting your job because your employer decides to b ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Blogging from Social Networks Enhanced by Six Apart
	Blogs and social networks are two of the most popular technologies nowadays, having an impressive yet continuously growing number of users. People like blogging because they're usually free and because they are able to write their own articles without too much effort. On the other hand, social networks connect consumers from different corners of the world, allowing them to share the things they like/dislike or communicate ju ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Wants More Sharing
	Facebook has millions of users, the company's representatives even estimating that approximately 250,000 new accounts are created every day. Because of that, the website is somehow forced to improve its functions periodically, in order to satisfy the majority of members and bring them the features they need. That's why Facebook has just released a new function, namely the Import feature for Mini-Feed, a special ability ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Israel's Latest National Security Threat: Facebook!
	Facebook, the famous social networking website, is again causing problems in Israel due to its continuously growing popularity: officials are not allowed anymore to publish confidential information on Facebook because it may become available to all the people who surf the Internet, Associated Press reported today. As you probably know, Facebook has an amazing number of registered users and, according to its representatives, the s ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 10:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gangs Turn to Internet in order to Organize Fights
	Last week, we told you about the Saudi girl who was killed by her father after having been caught chatting on a social network. Today, another report concerning such ways of communication hits the web: two rival gangs were using these websites to organize fights between their members. According to the Belfast Telegraph, several police officers from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, got into trouble a few days ago when attempt ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virginia Schools to Teach Online Security Lessons
	Since kids' online security is one of our main concerns, authorities from all over the world analyze and think about new methods that would improve security measures and stop web threats from reaching the youth population. Virginia is now the first state that will introduce mandatory online security lessons in all schools in the state, although Texas and Illinois have already started teaching these courses to interested pupi ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace, Facebook and Hi5 More Popular than Toys
	It's a well-known fact that the social networking websites out there, including here MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Bebo and other services, are quite popular among today's Internet users as they record millions of new accounts every day. What's really bad is that an important percentage of the social networking population is actually represented by kids who are always looking to socialize and make new friends. This would ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Kills! Saudi Girl Shot Dead for Using Facebook!
	There are lots of people who think that Facebook and all the other social networks on the web have a bad influence over kids and teenagers, but a Saudi father went beyond this. Because her daughter was using Facebook to socialize and to communicate with members of the opposite sex on the Internet, the father has beaten the girl and then shot her dead. It may sound extreme, but Saudis have always been harsh when it comes to their ... [read more >>]
	31 March 2008, 08:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Shocking: Child Torture Photos Hit Facebook!
	Although it wasn’t confirmed yet, some reports disclosed that several Facebook accounts got hacked and shocking pictures of child torture were sent to all the users visiting the profiles. Paperghost of Vitalsecurity.org informs that at least two accounts were hijacked a few days ago, but no Facebook official replied yet. "So far, I have one definite confirm on at least two accounts that were taken over (most likely by the ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 06:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Live Messenger at the Center of the Universe
	Via a new move on the Windows Live front, Microsoft is placing its instant messaging service firmly at the center of the social networking universe. The Redmond company's Windows Live Messenger is already on the top of the world in terms of audience, and Microsoft aims to s ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 12:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Study Group Condemned by University
	Starting a study group is something most schools, high schools and universities encourage, as it is an almost sure means of academic enlightenment for the members. Better grades and recognition, perhaps contests won are the upside for students while making a name as one of the best schools is what the learning institutions are after. The only condition, it seems, is that the study groups be in real life and not online. Toronto ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 06:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Chat Underway
	The fastest rising social network in the world, Facebook, has just confirmed its newest option to be added to the slew of services it offers. A web chat product dubbed unoriginally "Facebook Chat" will be released in the weeks to come, and will be added to the bottom of all the Facebook pages. Much like your average Instant Messenger, it will show which of the user’s friends that is online (take that, you, who accept fr ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 10:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First Man Jailed because of Facebook Released
	The brief trial that sent Fouad Mourtada to jail after creating a Facebook profile and impersonating the Moroccan king’s younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, drew a lot of attention to the African country and the "appalling" human rights conditions there. BBC and CNN both covered the story and caused quite a stir, swaying some 9,000 people to sign the petition for Mourtada’s release. The 26-year-old IT engineer tol ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook: Israel… or Palestine… or Whatever
	Facebook is bringing peace in the Middle East, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said one week ago. How exactly is that possible, you might ask? Well, the social network is giving the young of Lebanon a wider view of the world. Doesn’t seem like enough to me, but it is better than doing nothing about the problem. Unfortunately, the Middle East is a tad greater than that, and another messy situation arises. Israeli settlers on the West Bank have voice ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 07:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook's Zuckerberg and Lacy, Train Wreck Interview
	Not to be sexist or anything, but women who aren’t on point with their questions utterly mess up as interviewers on stage. Add to that the fact that the interviewee was the notoriously mute Mark Zuckerberg and you get the whole picture of what happened in Ballroom A of the Austin Convention Center at SXSW. While trying to be friendly and pitching life-lines to the Facebook founder and CEO which he could grab hold and start talkin ... [read more >>]
	10 March 2008, 14:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Stealing People from Google
	Google’s Vice President of Global Online Sales & Operations, Sheryl Sandberg, has been signed on by Facebook and will start as the social network’s COO on the 24th of March. After having a good run with the Mountain View based company, she is now going after something a little more challenging, apparently. Time and again I’ve asked whether a managerial position at Google isn’t the ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First Ever Facebook Harassment Case on Trial
	Let’s get things straight from the start, harassing somebody live or via any other means of communication is evil, despite what conclusions I might draw later on. Stalking isn’t good either, unless it’s for a really noble cause, and as those don’t roll around that often and mobster ex-boyfriends don’t meet with others in the open where the scorn girlfriend could gather important information easily, it’s nothing to be doing wholeheartedly. ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gay Facebook Page Causes Promotion Denial
	There’s a lot of discrimination today even though the world has evolved a lot since the day people of other color or religious belief were killed on sight. Like any form of warfare, the methods used for discriminating have gone deeper underground into the human psyche. Olden days saw armies of hundreds of thousands amassed on a battlefield, facing each other and shouting to discourage their opponents. Nowadays, guerilla war is th ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Identity Theft = 3 Years Behind Bars
	Earlier this month, I covered the joke that Fouad Mourtada had played by creating a Facebook profile and claiming he was King Mohammed VI's brother, Prince Moulay Rachid. He was swiftly arrested and the jury didn't take its time before coming up with a sentence ... [read more >>]
	26 February 2008, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook to Lose Former COO
	Facebook has a small vengeful community at its top. Once Mark Zuckerberg’s right hand man, Owen Van Natta, is said to be leaving his position in two weeks’ time. It looks like while at the startup social network it doesn’t pay off to aspire to be CEO, it might trigger some unwanted attention to your grandeur dreams. That’s pretty much the story in short: Owen wanted to be chief executive officer while he was in position of chi ... [read more >>]
	20 February 2008, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Finally Lets Users Out
	Some people go to the social networks because they are bored and think that by getting in touch with some of their old friends (or girlfriends) might spice up their life a bit (especially if they have posted pictures). Human nature is petty and cruel and there’s no need to feel ashamed in case you ever found yourself feeling proud to be doing better than some of your old time acquaintances. Other live in social networks, and I me ... [read more >>]
	15 February 2008, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace and Facebook, Well but Ill
	What MySpace has been trying to accomplish for quite a while now, to top Facebook in growth, finally happened this January. News Corp.’s social network has felt Mark Zuckerberg’s startup breathing down its neck since the first months the two were competing and the numbers showed last year that Facebook would prove to be the real MySpace killer if left at large. Various attempts from MS to counter the open platform that Facebook [ADMARK= ... [read more >>]
	13 February 2008, 05:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bebo Has Been Bought! But by Who?
	The second largest social network in the United Kingdom, Bebo, has just had the rumor veil surrounding its current situation pierced and there is some light going through the hole left. Not much, you know how the M & A talks can go, but just enough to be sure that they’re not on their own. Talks about this first emerged about a week ago, when Tech Crunch reported the social network contacting their investment bank, Allen & ... [read more >>]
	13 February 2008, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Had 1,500 Spanish ‘Slaves’ Doing Its Job
	Why bother with working on some feature that will just set your other work back, when you can have others do the work for you? That must have been the company policy regarding the Spanish version of the page, for which Facebook gave its users total freedom to translate. That can’t be right somehow, but I just can’t put my finger on it. Perhaps I’m thinking about exploiting somebody’s love for your product and make it benefit y ... [read more >>]
	08 February 2008, 06:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Moroccan Prince’s Identity Stolen on Facebook
	Penalties for identity theft have been regulated and honed on in the past years, ever since the Internet fraud started rising exponentially. Despite the penalties applied and despite all the warnings being issued and widely presented by the media, some people still resort to it. The latest in the row of such crimes is Fouad Mourtada’s theft of the Moroccan Prince’s identity and his using it on social networking site Facebook. ... [read more >>]
	08 February 2008, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace Opens Platform to Software Developers
	Once upon a time there was a big social network reigning over its smaller siblings from far up in the sky, where its success propelled it. But then came its worst nightmare, a new rival and because it too was based on people’s profiles and friends, heir to its throne. That spooked the fearless (to that moment) leader and so it pulled everybody together at a round table and suggested that what was one’s strength should be the strength of al ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia