Aaron Greenspan, a man known mostly for his legal issues with Facebook, recently sued Google when his account was shut down and payment of $721 he was due from pubslishing Google Ads was halted. One day Greenspan received an email from Google saying:
Facebook Apps Get More Social with Chat
Facebook has launched the ability to let users chat within applications on Facebook. This keeps applications within the social network even more social.
If a developer uses the new fb:chat-invite FBML tag, they can display a list of users’ online friends and let them invite their friends to chat. Developers can also give users the freedom to choose which friends they want to appear in their chat lists within the apps.
Facebook’s New Twitter-Like Elements Highlight Real-Time Search Need
As previously reported, Facebook is set to launch changes to its news feeds that will give it more Twitter-like functionality. The changes are set to launch next week, and will update feeds in real-time.
In addition to that, the status box is becoming a publisher box. Rather than only allowing users to update their status, it will now allow you to post content – links, photos, videos, etc that will go to the news feed stream in real-time.
Facebook Altering Pages and Feeds
Facebook announced today that it will be launching some changes next week. These changes are related to your home page and to pages for public figures and organizations.
Pages for said figures and organizations will no operate like the profiles of the common folk. This should inspire greater communications between them and fans.
Restraining Order Issued Against Facebook Spammers
Facebook won a restraining order against notorious spam king Samford “Spamford” Wallace in US District Court, a victory that, if history is any indication, is mostly symbolic.
Koobface Returns To Facebook
Social networkers, you’ve been reclassified. You’re now sitting ducks, neatly corralled by the millions with six degrees of separation or less, and the infamous Koobface new and improved is using your friend as both decoy and digital bird flu carrier.
Reportedly the fourth rogue app to hit Facebook in a week, the new variant of the Koobface worm that once before terrorized the network poses as a social network friend, profile photo and all, and sends a message with a link to a video. The message claims the recipient is in the video.
Make Facebook, Yahoo, and Google Products Better
We live in an age of great communication. The world is literally at our fingertips at the click of a mouse or the stroke of a key, and that puts the companies behind the products we use everyday right within our reach.
The Story Of Facebook’s Attempt To Buy Twitter
In a BusinessWeek article takes us on the journey of how one monster of social media tried to swallow an up and comer but didn’t quite have what it takes.
Facebook Makes Some Changes
Original Article (update at the end):
There are a couple of newsworthy Facebook changes going on. The first would be changes to the social network’s terms of service.
Zuckerberg Lays Down Facebook’s Magna Carta
When a change to a website’s terms of service sparks such a revolt that it ends up on NBC Nightly News, then you know there’s a problem. In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new “foundational policies” applied to users, developers, and advertisers that will give them more say in how things are done on Facebook.