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Facebook Connect: Coming Soon to a Site Near You?
Written by Rick Turoczy / November 4, 2008 5:12 PM / 18 Comments
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Facebook Connect - the service that allows developers to access Facebook data from outside of the Facebook chrome - has been met with both cautious optimism and healthy skepticism. digg_url Continue reading »


Speed Dating on the Oregon Trail: Facebook App Becomes a Dating Service
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 23, 2008 2:39 PM / 13 Comments
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Imagine that one day you are playing a game on a social networking site and the next day you discover that this game has been replaced by a video speed Continue reading »


Students Competing For Slots At Elite Colleges Resorting To "Facebook Sabotage"
Written by Sarah Perez / October 23, 2008 7:49 AM / 12 Comments
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Students competing to get into the nation's most elite colleges and universities have begun to use sneaky, under-handed tactics involving Facebook, according to a new report from the Chicago Tribune. Continue reading »


Facebook fbFund Awards 25 Apps $25k Each
Written by Rick Turoczy / October 15, 2008 1:11 PM
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With today's technology startups, sometimes a little funding can go a long way. Today, 25 Facebook applications received word that they've got more runway ahead of them. At a time Continue reading »


Microsoft Stake in Facebook Begins to Bear Fruit
Written by Rick Turoczy / October 7, 2008 3:56 PM / 14 Comments
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Almost exactly one year ago, Facebook and Microsoft were in the headlines when the Redmond, Washington-based software giant outlasted Google in a bidding war to garner a $240 million stake Continue reading »


Facebook Live Feed a Killer? More Like a Hindrance
Written by Corvida / September 4, 2008 6:40 PM / 2 Comments
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Recently, Facebook released a live feed feature for the homepage of Facebook users. This new feature allows you to see the latest updates by your Facebook friends in real-time. Continue reading »


Is Facebook the Most Popular Social Bookmarking Service on the Web?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 11, 2008 9:34 AM / 13 Comments
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ShareThis reports that it is now. How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after Continue reading »


Facebook Didn't Want to Sue StudiVZ
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 8, 2008 10:42 AM / 7 Comments
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According to a report in the International Herald Tribune, Facebook tried to acquire the popular German social network StudiVZ. When those negotiations ended without a deal, Facebook decided to sue Continue reading »


See What Facebook Connect Looks Like
Written by Sarah Perez / August 7, 2008 6:00 AM / 6 Comments
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On Monday, Facebook released a sample site that demonstrates how Facebook Connect (previous coverage), their new authentication methodology for logging into third-party web sites, will work. On the demo site, Continue reading »


The Bigger Questions Behind The Scrabulous Shutdown
Written by Sarah Perez / July 29, 2008 8:03 AM / 27 Comments
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As of today, Scrabulous, the wildly popular Facebook Scrabble game, is no more. If you try to login to the app now you'll get the message "Scrabulous is disabled for Continue reading »


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