I know why you joined Facebook: to share everything with everyone. Well, good news—this week, Facebook adds a new level of privacy access: everyone.
Facebook Connects Users with iPhone Apps
Over the weekend, Facebook launched Facebook Connect for the iPhone and iPod Touch at SXSW. Developers area already taking advantage of Facebook Platform APIs to add social features to many iPhone applications.
March Madness Comes to Facebook
March Madness is a time-honored tradition for college basketball fans in the US, and this weekend is "Selection Sunday." That means it’s bracket time.
Millions of fans will be getting online to find brackets to fill out and chart their visions for the path to the NCAA championship. Many will likely turn to Facebook, and they’re in luck because developers like CBSSports.com, Watercooler and Citizen Sports have created March Madness apps where users can create brackets, participate in discussions and pools, and find news, scores and videos from the tournament.
Facebook Vanity URLs Could Help Search Engine Rankings
Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. In areas where others have advantages over it, Facebook seems to be making changes to improve.Obviously there is the new Twitter-like functionality of its real-time news feeds/filters. But Mike Arrington points out another thing that Facebook is starting to do – vanity URLs.
Facebook Launches New Ad Targeting Options
Facebook has launched two targeting filters for Facebook ads. These are language and radius targeting. Both have been heavily in demand by advertisers.
Facebook CEO Drops Out of Billionaires Club
There are just over 300 fewer billionaires in the world this year, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is one of them. According to Forbes’ latest Masters of the Universe list (my name for it, not Forbes), Zuckerberg’s net worth plummeted by $600 million last year due to Facebook’s inability to make money.
Law, Order, Facebook, And Twitter
Not too long ago, the most important things discussed on Facebook and Twitter related to people’s relationships and what was for lunch. Then we moved into job-loss and non-fatal-plane-crash territory. Now, a couple of stories with links to the criminal justice system have cropped up.
The New Facebook Arrives
Last week Facebook announced that it would be rolling out changes to its home page sometime this week. That has now begun.
Enthusiasm has been building greatly over the past week. Within 20 minutes of an official Facebook blog post on the launch it had already received 98 comments, most of which were pretty positive.
Facebook Introduces Arabic And Hebrew Versions
It doesn’t look like Facebook’s international growth rate is going to taper off anytime soon. Huge numbers of people will find the social network easier to access as of today, since Arabic and Hebrew versions of the site have been introduced.
Is A Facebook Friend, Really A Friend?
We are sifting through mountains and mountains of information and data these days. There is more to look at and digest and analyze and consider and ponder and complain about and on and on. Not only that but we now have so many friends that who has time for anything?