Earlier this month, Facebook showed off its new friends page and the ability to create friends lists to organize your friends into separate groups. For example, I could have people from my high school in one list, and my co-workers in another.
Should Companies Restrict Employees Use of Facebook, Twitter?
Update: The original title of this article was "USA Today Publisher Restricting Employees from Using Social Networks?" USA Today called Murdok requesting a change because it made it look like USA Today itself was discouraging social media use, which is apparently not the case.
Connecting Digg with Facebook
Back when Facebook Connect launched, Digg was among the names mentioned that would be utilizing the feature. Nothing has happened with that (at least publicly) until now. Digg has now gotten connected with Facebook Connect.
Robot Wants Friends On Facebook
Researchers from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) at the University of the United Arab Emirates are giving a robot its own Facebook profile page to explore "human-robot relationships."
Research indicates that humans gradually lose interest in interactive robots after a few weeks. Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis, Lab director at IRML, hopes to change that by studying how humans interact with a robot on the social web.
Will Facebook Supplant Google As a Referral Source?
If Google had managed to acquire Facebook back when Yahoo failed to do so, Google would truly dominate the online referral business. But it appears that Google and Yahoo really missed the boat on the social end of the spectrum.
Facebook Nine Days Away From New Headquarters
In nine days’ time, a lot of Facebook employees will likely wind up carrying cardboard boxes full of office supplies to their cars. Fans of the social network don’t need to worry about the company going under, though; instead, everyone will just be relocating to a vastly bigger workspace at the Stanford Research Park.
Facebook Makes Friend Organization Easier
If you go to Facebook.com/friends, you can create friend lists on Facebook and organize your friends into different categories. This is good for organization, privacy, and for simply controlling what you see on your home page. This clip pretty much explains what it’s all about:
Facebook Asks For Money But Says They Don’t Need It
Does anyone else see the similarity between Facebook’s attempts to raise additional funds and last week’s episode of
Facebook Opening Up User Profiles To Third Party Developers
The arms race between Facebook and Twitter or social media supremacy has its good and bad moments. The good is that all of this ‘one-upsmanship’ should eventually lead to better tools for social media users. The bad news is that we have to hear about every time someone at one of these two companies has a thought.
Facebook Decides To Follow Majority, Adopt New TOS
The majority – or at least the majority of the few folks who voiced an opinion – will indeed rule. Facebook’s governance vote is over, and although its declared participation threshold wasn’t met, the social network is preparing to adopt the terms of service most voters favored.