For months, there have been rumors that Facebook was working on turning the inboxes of its 500 million-plus users into a full-blown e-mail service. Today, Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg formally unveiled the subject of the rumors–code-named “Titan” and officially named simply “Facebook Messages”–at an event in San Francisco. And …
Facebook Prepping New E-mail System?
Facebook has summoned members of the media to San Francisco next Monday for a “special event.” The invitation is totally devoid of useful information except for a speech bubble icon with a vague resemblance of an e-mail message inside of it—the very same icon set that’s currently used in Facebook’s “Messages” section.
People have …
Facebook Is Keeping Tabs On What You’re Talking About
The social media giant has started testing a “mentions” function on the News Feed of select Facebook user accounts, meaning when you and your friend decide to write about the same thing, Facebook will conveniently pair your posts together within your News Feed. The new feature will also add the public profile of the “thing” you and your …
Cooks Source Magazine Controversy: Is It Copyright Infringement?
Monica Gaudio, who wrote a story about apple pies, is finding out that some people think that “public domain” means they can take your work and print it without your knowledge. No publication has the right to publish a blogger’s work without their consent and make a profit off it (at least according to the US government) – and she and an …
Why Facebook Deals is Bad News for Foursquare
Foursquare just got Facebooked. And it’s more than just a poking. It might be a body blow to one of the location-based service’s killer features.
When I first covered Foursquare for TIME in January, I gave the (then) pint-sized start-up praise for having a path toward a revenue stream through the “deals” part of their platform, which …
Facebook Launches New Mobile Tools, Location Based Deals
Facebook launched a whole heaping helping of mobile stuff today. Fun fact: President Obama had the audacity to hold a live press conference at the same time. What’s with that guy?! And the Giants had their World Series parade at the same time. What’s with those guys?!
Here’s what’s coming from …
Facebook Blocks Moms Due to Excessive Message Posting
It may sound unbelievable that a Facebook group for young mothers would have a near constant volley of messages careening through the popular social network’s series of interconnected tubes, but it’s true! Apparently they like to chat with one another on the order of “35 to 40 messages within a 1.5- to 2-hour period,” according to PC …
Study Reveals Facebook Could Be Outing Gay Users
A new study from Microsoft Research India and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems shows that companies are taking gender preferences into account when posting their ads on Facebook. Though that is completely logical, they also found out whether or not you reveal your sexual orientation on your profile, companies still somehow have …
You Can Now Print Facebook Photos at Target Stores
Remember photos? Like the ones you’d hold in your hands? They still exist!
You can magically convert your Facebook photos to the kind you hold in your hands through the miracle of “photo development,” which is available through Kodak’s aptly-named Picture Kiosks found in Target stores.
The Facebook-infused kiosks are “now available …
Facebook in Hot Water Over Leaked User IDs
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a story concerning the inadvertent passing of Facebook users’ personal information between popular third-party Facebook applications and several outside marketing agencies and data-gathering firms.
Every Facebook user is assigned a unique, non-identifying, numeric “user ID” that’s …
Daily Dose
Friday, October 15, 2010 –
Quote To Live By:
“We will make everything metal, we will make it blacker then the blackest black times infinity,” – Nathan Explosion from Metalocalypse
Up Front:
Facebook Co-Founder Speaks Publicly: What I Learned From Watching “The Social Network” [CNBC]
Gadgets:
Rollover image on your website? That …
Facebook: You’re Not the Customer, You’re the Product
Man, I love Bruce Schneier. Here’s a pithy, pitch-perfect summary of your relationship with Facebook:
Social networking websites are “deliberately killing privacy” in order to make a profit, according to renowned security author Bruce Schneier.
Speaking at the RSA Europe security conference in London on Tuesday, the BT Counterpane
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