Tag: Facebook

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Announces Startup:Education
As noted earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is donating $100 million to public schools, starting in Newark, New Jersey. He's set up a foundation called Startup:Educ...
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YouTube Instant Gets A Million Visitors in 10 Days, Creator Accepts YouTube job
Feross Aboukhadijeh, a Facebook intern and student at Stanford, launched YouTube Instant, just after Google rolled out Google Instant. It qu...
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Facebook Explains Outage
Facebook was down for over 2.5 hours for some users, according to a post from the company. A post in Facebook's engineering notes says: The key flaw that cau...
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White Spaces, Verizon Tiered Data Plans & Facebook Troubles
The FCC voted today on rules that will enable the use of TV white spaces to provide wireless broadband connectivity. Google and Microsoft both issued updates applauding the ruli...
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Hotmail Gets a New Round of Feature Upgrades
Microsoft announced that it is rolling out some new features to Hotmail. These include: the ability to track packages referenced in your email from Hotmail itself, chat with Fac...
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Zuckerberg 35th Richest Person in America, and Facebook Credits/Phones Just Getting Started
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reached number 35 on the Forbes 400 List of Wealthiest Americans. Forbes has him esti...
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Canadian Privacy Authority Approves Facebook Changes
Facebook's privacy team can breathe a small sigh of relief; the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is not going to trouble them further at this time.  Commissioner Jennifer Sto...
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“Google Me” is Probably Already Bigger Than Facebook
The world discovered a little bit more about this mysterious "Google Me" project this week, when Googlers, in...
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The Missing Credit of “The Social Network”
Last year, Facebook settled a trademark dispute with Aaron Greenspan, CEO of...
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Facebook Should Now Be Less Annoying to Those Who Don’t Play Games
Facebook has launched some new features related to controlling game updates seen in the news feed. Before, Facebook users could hide an application story or block it completely,...
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Nokia Exec Compares Android to Boys Peeing Their Pants
Anssi Vanjoki , the soon-to-be former head of Nokia's smartphone unit, has reportedly said that mobile phone makers that adopt Android are like Finnish boys who "pee in the...
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Facebook Making Changes Towards Their ‘Rejection’ System
Whenever we bark about Facebook and privacy I liken it to complaining about politicians. In my mind, you have no, as in zero, right to complain about a politician if you didn&...
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Facebook Users May Have People Following Them They Aren’t Aware Of
Facebook has a somewhat hidden feature that lets people follow your updates when you're not actually friends with them. Before you freak out, this is only applicable for updates...
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Facebook: We’re Not Working on a Phone
Update: The following statement from Facebook was left in the comments: “The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate. Fa...
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Facebook Product Review Features on the Way from PowerReviews
Later this month, PowerReviews will announce several new Facebook-related additions to its social commerce suite. "This news is e...
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