What’s in a title? Well, sometimes, a lot of words – I believe the most I’ve seen was 23 – but Owen Van Natta’s job at Facebook had a nice, simple name: chief operating officer. Now Van Natta’s been given the title of “chief revenue officer and vice president of operations,” and yes, by comparison, that’s neither concise nor prestigious.
Facebook Wasn’t Ready For Freddi
Forty-one percent of Facebook users are willing to share their personal information, such as email address, date of birth and phone number with a stranger, increasing their risk of identity theft according to new research from IT security company Sophos.
Facebook Source Code Sees The Light Of Day
For Facebook, it wasn’t a great way to start the weekend – the site’s home page source code was posted online for all to see. On the bright side, data belonging to Facebook’s many users appears to be completely safe and unaffected.
Facebook Success Doesn’t Equal LinkedIn Death
I don’t know if it’s a human nature thing or a Western civilization thing, but it seems a lot of the time we focus on winners, damn the rest, and assume that when one supplants the other the other drones on eternally in obscurity rather than the two coexisting. We do this even though Coke and Pepsi, McDonald’s and Burger King, Wal-Mart and Target all coexist in free market bliss.
Wal-Mart Hawks Wares On Facebook
What’s the one thing Facebook was missing? Well, in my opinion, it wasn’t Wal-Mart’s official presence. But like it or not, there is now a sponsored Wal-Mart group on the social networking site.
Facebook Addresses BNP Problem
One week ago, six major corporations pulled their advertising from Facebook. Then the British government followed suit. Now the social networking site has introduced a solution that may bring them all back.
Buy.com’s Garage Sale Goes To Facebook
Facebook is a popular social network, but could it also be an auction site?
That’s what Buy.com wants to happen, anyway – the company just launched a Garage Sale application within Facebook.
Cut off Nose, Spite Facebook
Late last week, Virgin Media, Prudential, Vodafone, Halifax, First Direct Bank and the Automobile Association Ltd. pulled advertising from Facebook for fear of their ads being seen on the same page as the British National Party Facebook group.
Facebook Woops: Giuliani’s Girl Goes For Barack
If you’re running for the highest office in the land, it’s probably a good idea to check to see what your daughter’s doing, if she’s going to vote for you, and if not, will she be quiet about it? Wouldn’t you double check her social network profiles?
Facebook Reunites Man With Birth Mother
Once a site gets so popular you can almost guarantee the negative press to begin – that seems to be the nature of the beast, disallowing the sunset ride off to be completely free of potholes. But every now and then (not often enough, in other words) something very nicely warm and fuzzy, like an early Christmas story, gets through.