VoIP provider Vonage announced the Vonage Mobile for Facebook app today that lets iPhone, iPad and Android owners make free calls to any of their Facebook friends and vice versa.
All you need to do to make free phone calls to other Vonage users is to download the Facebook app and/or mobile apps and start chatting away. Really, …
The downside to producing a film about the most-used social networking system of all time? Being blacklisted by said social network.
David Fincher’s upcoming The Social Network, an unauthorized story about the creation of Facebook, is unable to market the film on the site itself. According to a Slash Film post, the film violates …
Like the first trailer, the second teaser trailer for The Social Network is void of any actual footage from the film about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, but it’s ripe with drama and suspense. I can’t wait to find out what happens! Did Zuckerberg steal the idea for Facebook?! October can’t come soon enough!!!
Sidenote: I can’t …
There’s some pitter-patter on the worldwide web concerning a rumored project simply known as Google Me. It all started with a Twitter update from Digg founder Kevin Rose saying that he’d heard a rumor from a “very credible source” that Google would be launching a “Facebook competitor very soon” called Google Me. That tweet has since been …
Earlier today Sony announced details of an upcoming firmware update for the PS3 and PSP. The PS3 will jump to v3.40 and with it comes PlayStation Plus subscriptions (available starting tomorrow) and a slew of other features including Facebook “enhancements.” The PSP will receive firmware update v6.30 that includes PS Plus and …
This first teaser trailer is just that – a tease. Void of any actual footage of upcoming film The Social Network, the trailer gives the impression that David Fincher’s Facebook origin film is more Kramer vs. Kramer than Ivy League go get ’em flick. Look at those descriptors: Punk, Genius, Prophet, Traitor, Billionaire? Where I’d give …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened up about the backlash he’s faced in recent weeks since due to Facebook’s ever-changing privacy settings while at the D8 conference Wednesday.
(More on Techland: Live Blogging Facebook’s New Privacy Changes)
Answering to The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Zuckerberg pretty …
Facebook is all set to roll out its “simpler” privacy changes after this month’s backlash over the amount of user data that is available through the site. I’ll be live blogging the press conference here, set to begin at 10:30 a.m. PST (1:30 p.m. ET). Hit refresh to update.
(More on Time.com: Facebook Gives The Scoop On More Privacy …
It seems like a Facebook change is more of a weekly event than a grand, once-in-a-while update. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook’s VP of Product Chris Cox announced that the site would roll out changes to its privacy settings once again, this time bringing a settings system that is “drastically simplified.” Right now, users …
Monday, May 24, 2010
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Last night’s other season finale: Wonder if anyone watched? TBS’ Family Guy aired Something Something Something Dark Side for the first time on TV in lieu of its season finale last night. I don’t know about you, but if it weren’t for LOST, I would have …
80th level tech-blogger Robert Scoble e-mailed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday to ask him why he hadn’t spoken publicly about Facebooks’ various privacy gaffes. Zuckerberg e-mailed him back. Hooray!
(More on Techland: Will You Quit Facebook Because of New Privacy Terms?)
Excerpt Zuckerberg didn’t say …
