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

New iPhone Commercials: FaceBook and... Cars
	Apple, the company launching the most wanted mobile phone ever developed, has recently released not one, but two new iPhone commercials (in the typical iPhone spirit), showing off ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Finances? Let Me Tell You All About It!
	Following in the footsteps of another great Internet company's founders, and I’m talking about Google’s Page and Brin, Mark Zuckerberg opted to share the financial information that he had with some of his employees, in the Palo Alto theater, near the company’s headquarters. The only difference between the two sides is that the Google founders used to coordinate their talking with their execs, while Mark was voluble by default. Kara ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 03:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google and Facebook Gear up for Battle over CS Grads
	Let every huge Internet company expansion start now! The way Google and Facebook are going after computer science grads looks like a race. I think there was also a gunshot start, as they started at the same time. The jobs offered are dreamy for a fresh-out-of-university student and the salaries are also there, in that "dreamy" area. Stanford is for the two companies what Mecca is for Muslims. That’s where the job off ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Apps Dying, MySpace Opening to Them
	The boom that Facebook recorded and that boosted it to the second spot in the social networks ranking was mostly due to its applications, which had a huge pull to users and developers the same. Now, they look to be on a descending trend, after the huge figures they recorded in the last two months of 2007. The reason, as Josh Catone of Read Write Web mentioned, is probably that of "app fatigue," meaning that the "no ... [read more >>]
	30 January 2008, 12:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Cannot Hold Its Team Together Anymore
	The Sunnyvale-based company has recently invested a great deal in its advertising platform, hoping that it would turn the slope it has been on for two years now into a slight increase which would hold promise for the future. That hasn’t been the case, though, and its income has suffered a major blow, on a 42 percent drop from the previous quarter. How is Yahoo! going to attempt to save itself yet again this quarter, I do not know, [ADMA ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 05:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpaceTV Adds BBC Video to Service
	Facebook must have spooked shivers down MySpace’s spine. From the outside, it looks like the biggest (still) social network in the world is trying to expand into all directions at once. It just opened offices in Russia and a homepage for the community there, a similar course of action is coming in Turkey (MySpace Turkey – always cracks me up) and now MySpaceTV has signed a deal to have BBC Worldwide provide video content. The agreement ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hasbro Sees Twists in Scrabulous Plot
	One of the most common applications on Facebook, ranked number 9, Scrabulous, is approaching rapidly its deadline decision to be made. And it’s really not like the brothers owning it have more than one option: to sell. The only thing that they may try to do is not to sell to whom Hasbro wants them to, namely Electronic Arts, and to try and get the most money out of the deal possible. EA has been quick enough to register the rights for t ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 03:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Application for Better Grammar Launched
	Writing hastily often leads to a couple of grammar mistakes, if you’re not feeling like "indulging" yourself to read again and correct it all. All of this proves to be a nuisance if the message you have written this way is sent to somebody who is, say, your English teacher, or just somebody in a bad mood that feels like telling you about it and correcting you in an embarrassing way, or using a tone that’s very suggestive. Tha ... [read more >>]
	22 January 2008, 06:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia and Facebook to Come Together
	If the deal were to go through, it would be one of the best things that could have ever happened to the social network. It would give it the prominence in the mobile world that none has and in return for it there’s nothing it would be actually giving up, perhaps some stake for Nokia in Facebook. Ok, ok, that’s not little. The deal that paidcontent.com first heard about is said to have implications at all levels, including givi ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 19:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

12.8 Billion Dollars Lost Because of Social Networks
	Besides time loss, social networking from the office is also an open window to hackers and exploiters who take the opportunity to attack the sites of the companies whose employees enjoy socializing over the Internet. As usual, there are two sides to every story. The one that is condemnable is that by linking in and being active on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, just to name a few, a lot of bandwidth is being used, between 15 and ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace Russia Launched, Turkey Version En Route
	When you’re most bored and have nothing to do, you start surfing the Internet and in particular the social networks in order to see how your friends have been doing. I don’t know if that’s the way it works for you, it does for me. And while merrily browsing through my account on MySpace, I just chanced upon the International Map and noticed that it was in Russian. That was new, so I decided to ask around about when that had happe ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace Still the Leader, Facebook Catching Up
	The battle between the two social networks is now harsher than ever. Before Facebook, MySpace ruled the market in numbers of visitors by far and it didn’t look like it would relish that position very soon. Despite the privacy problems that FB encountered with its Beacon program, it now slowly creeps behind the leader of the lot ready to strike the decisive blow. It’s a fact that Zuckerberg’s company has seen incredibly rapid g ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 13:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Break Up, the Application of Nightmares
	New Facebook users might want to think twice about who they add as a friend in the first day since they activate their accounts. Some of the people that automatically add others to their Friend List might prove to be the reason for some major drama and serious scandal. The application called "Break Up" goes over the FB standard policy of not disclosing whether a person decides to remove another from their friend list and gives th ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scrabulous to Be Shut Down by Hasbro
	The many many applications, that Facebook includes for its users to share and enjoy, enlist logically in their ranks many games, such as Scrabulous, the online version of Hasbro’s Scrabble. That seems to be reason enough for the toy company to hound its lawyers against the maker of the app. The online version is very popular among FB users with 569 thousand users being active daily, ranking it on the ninth spot in the most us ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 10:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook: Hide Apps from Profile
	Facebook is the breeding ground at the moment for the applications that seem to be appearing out of thin air. It is the best means of advertising that an app maker could have ever dreamed of (except the case it were to be Microsoft) and the best way to make yourself noticed by some of the bigger guys in the game. Sadly for them, the Palo Alto based company has decided to ad a profile clean-up tool that will allow users to hide ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

French Press Credibility Questioned after Greatest Facebook Hoax Ever
	A third-party Facebook application, aimed at quarterly designating a new "Facebook Worldwide president", made the head news in France after it designated as a winner resident Arash Derambarsh, who campaigned intensively in the weeks allowed. His official program? Tolerance across religions, fighting illiteracy and promoting French culture worldwide. Now, it’s not for certain if he knew it was a make-pretend election or ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 18:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook's Secret Crush Gets Banned
	The famous social network Facebook made another step to protect its users, by banning the 'Secret Crush' widget that apparently attempted to deploy some adware software on users' computers. The report came out a few days ago and, according to figures provided by several security companies, approximately four percent of the total number of Facebook users have already installed the widget. But according to "The Register&q ... [read more >>]
	09 January 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BigSight.org, a Site Attempting to Become the White Pages on the Internet
	People search is a big red danger area for any sites attempting to add it to their requisitory, even as an idea. Many have tried to do this and still try (take Facebook for example, or any other social networking site that deals with a lot of personal information), but that always lead to a lot of talk about privacy and the likes of it. Big shady area, if you care to imagine it. Yet here comes ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 08:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Secret Crush to Crash Your Computer
	A new Facebook application brings the popular social networking service back in the spotlight, as it attempts to take users on a dangerous website and deploy malicious files on their computers. ‘Secret Crush’ is a Facebook application claiming that it is able to disclose the friend’s name that has a "secret crush" for a certain registered member. The application requires Facebook members to invite five other friends to ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 12:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Also Likes Phishing
	It was only a matter of time, but I can't really find a reason for stealing somebody's Facebook login credentials since the service is free for all. Maybe spamming or infecting people's computer is enough to convince attackers to launch phishing schemes on the web... However, a phishing scheme has already been identified these days, when a Chinese domain hosted a Facebook-like website asking for users' login c ... [read more >>]
	03 January 2008, 08:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Live Spaces Explodes
	Don't rule Windows Live Spaces out of the race for eyeballs on the social networking world just yet. Over the past year, the Redmond company's online social hotspot delivered a consistent evolution in terms of the audience it managed to attract. According to ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Now, This Is a Popular Online Birthday Calendar!
	Birthday Calendar, a newly released Facebook application, has managed to attract almost 2 million users in just one month since it was first released, BitDates Solutions, the developer of the utility, proudly announced today. Users from about 100 countries all over the world added this application to their profiles, the company continued in a public statement published today. In case you never heard of it, Birthday Calendar is a ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Feeds Bebo with Social Applications as Bebo Grabs Facebook’s Platform
	Apart from the question in the subtitle, I have no further inquiries, your honor! It’s good to see where the big rivals meet and exchange impressions, and even services. Earlier today, I read about Bebo’s grabbing the Facebook platform for its own use, which gave rise to some very interesting questions like that if the OpenSocial platform is the one that will become the standard. By the looks of it… no, it won’t. Facebook opened ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 06:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The “Rape Now” CAPTCHA Is Surely an Unexpected Word Verification
	We all know how annoying a CAPTCHA is, but we've all understood that they are pretty useful when it comes to our security on the Internet. That's why we accept them even if sometimes we can't read them and type the text correctly. But, what if you are asked to reproduce some unexpected CAPTCHAs like "rape now", "wiped president" or "Toledo playmates"? That would be something... The fol ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Woman Loses Money in Online Fraud
	Following the recent attacks involving social networking service, a new scam, which appears to be a threat for all of us, was reported by "The Local". According to this source, the Swedish woman was tricked to provide her financial details, which were then used by the attackers to steal her money. The entire operation was conducted through the popular social network Facebook, which has millions of registered users all o ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 08:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oh, Facebook, You Never Learn…
	Doesn’t that sound all too familiar at this point? I should think it does, it’s not been a week since the Beacon scandal calmed down with the apology of Zuckerberg and now the same problems arise again. Well not exactly the same, but in that related area of customer service. Users were upset with Beacon because of the data gathering it had going on, now they are upset because many have been banned (or to say it nicely, their accounts have ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 05:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Expands Its Advertising Portfolio
	Microsoft has announced the latest expansion of its advertising portfolio via the addition of a new partner. The Redmond company applauded a strategic alliance inked with CNBC, focused on the CNBC.com website. By joined forces with CNBC on advertising syndication, Microsoft manages to reel in another "big fish" to grow its ad business. CNBC's value is not exclusive to its brand, also coming from CNBC.com's in ... [read more >>]
	11 December 2007, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook and MySpace Attacks Exploded During 2007
	Since 2007 represented a huge success for social networking services, such as MySpace and Facebook, the attackers have adapted their techniques and targeted their attempts to the users connected to these websites. Security company MessageLabs rolled out an annual security report today, revealing that this year's attacks over social networking services increased with a shocking percentage. Usually, this type of attacks attem ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook's Success Brings Regional Ban
	We all know Facebook is extremely popular when it comes to the number of Internet users accessing its webpage. Alexa placed Facebook on position number 7, while compete.com estimates the social networking service has almost 30 million visitors per month. Impressive, isn't it? Certainly yes, but this popularity is not useful all the time. For example, today's piece of news comes to support my statement. Today, the Assoc ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The End for the Beacon War
	"We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them. We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it. . . . Instead of acting quickly, we took too long to decide on the right solution. I’m not proud of the way we’ve handled this situation and I know we can do better." This is the way Mark Zuckberg tried in a blog to start apologizing for all the company’s mis ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 06:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Doesn’t Facebook Ever Get Tired of This Sh*t?
	Ok, so you got your Facebook, you got your Coca-Cola partnership that was going swell. What would you do, if you had an option to continue the association when confronted with upcoming changes? I don’t know about you, but I would most definitely ask my good friend and partner about the options he would consider to be the best and try to work out the problems from there. After all, we are talking about one of the top brands in the world, a ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

It’s Final, Facebook Caved
	The campaign conducted by MoveOn.org and its 12000 members of the Facebook group made all the difference when it came to the great social networking site’s privacy policy. As of last night, users are able to opt-in to share purchases via Beacon. Facebook turned tail and ran for the hills when faced with the huge amount of bad reviews thrown at them. OK, the comparison might be a little far-fetched, but the result is the one expected. Here’ ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IT Professionals Ignore Major Security Measures
	'I'm a pro, I know what I'm doing,' a famous quote says. Well, this time it's somehow different because the IT professionals ignore major security measures and publish their information on very large and popular websites. According to ITPro, a study conducted by Microsoft and security vendor Facetime revealed that 35 percent of the IT professionals posted their birth date on the web while 27 percent of th ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo!: “Google, Mind if I Use You for Advertising My Services?”
	It makes perfect sense to just use the best advertising platform there is in order to promote your products or services, right? That’s what the people over at Yahoo! and Facebook thought, too, and as a result, you have the screenshot on the left. You might want to check it out, it’s interesting the way the Sunnyvale based company chose to promote its advertising platform by using Google’s similar service. I’m not sure how suc ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Might Bow Down to Users
	The talks held last afternoon and lasting late into the night, according to "BusinessWeek", were set on discussing the changes that could be made in order to stop all the upswell of concern relating to Facebook’s Beacon advertising program. The executives of the insanely popular social network have decided that going down the road they follow right now, might lead to the company’s downfall, one of the reasons being Move ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace: “Facebook, What Is That You Have There? I’ll Have It, Thank You!”
	Why bother coming up with something new and attractive when you could as well take it from your rival? This is what MySpace seems to be hinting at. Facebook’s "news feeds" about those people important to a user are the main issue at hand. Peter Levinsohn, President of News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media (FIM) told the Reuters Media Summit that "The concept of a news feed is something we are very focused on, ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Britons Turning to Photoshop to Make Themselves Look Pretty
	Many people find it pretty difficult to look great in photos due to a number of reasons. So every little trick that might help them is welcomed. Many of them turn to digital editing technologies, such as Photoshop, in order to make them look better – a research conducted by Canon revealed. According to the findings, one in five respondents said that he/she used photo manipulation utilities to change some aspects of the pictures, ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia