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Facebook: 500 Million Users (Almost)

July 19, 2010

Facebook has doubled its user database on just one year and is currently getting about 250,000 new users each day. Facebook is expected to reach the 500,000,000 users milestone this week.
To celebrate reaching this milestone, Facebook will launch a new feature called Facebook Stories. With Facebook Stories you can tell your story on how Facebook [...]

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Facebook: Top 13 Tips For a Safer & Enjoyable Experience

July 11, 2010

With over 500 million users and 176 billion ads shown on Facebook during Q1 2010, Facebook is now both a huge social media network and a booming economy for many companies. This means you have to be careful about how you use Facebook. While they depend on their users, they also depend on showing you [...]

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Facebook Economy

July 5, 2010

Here are some fun facts about Facebook from Visual Economics on how the Facebook economy looks…
- Facebook is estimated to be worth $7.9-11 billion.
Users
- Over 500 million users.
- 200 million users use Facebook 55 minutes each day (average).
Applications
- Over 550,000 applications.
- 70% of users use an application each month.
- There are more than one million [...]

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Facebook Simplifies Privacy Settings [Video]

May 30, 2010

A good move by Facebook, I think. They have been through a lot with their privacy settings over recent years, both because they forced you to share your “Pages” with everyone, no way of hiding it to the public, and because the privacy settings were just too advanced and too many.
Now, a few days ago, [...]

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Facebook Privacy Settings Exploit (Video)

May 7, 2010

On a big site like Facebook (read more posts about Facebook), there will always be some kind of exploit available, just waiting to be found – sometimes already found by somebody. Once such an exploithas been fixed by Facebook, it’s just a matter of time before another one appears. It happens for everybody and I [...]

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3 Facebook Privacy Settings Everybody Should Know (+ Fun Videos)

March 23, 2010

A few months ago, Facebook popped up on most user’s screens, asking to modify privacy settings according to new settings offered by Facebook. Undoubtedly, many users just clicked through it and adapted the privacy settings suggested by Facebook, probably leaving your profile more open than it was before.
No matter what, it’s a good idea to [...]

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Facebook Cause $2 Billion Daily Work Hour Loss in Denmark

March 19, 2010

An organization within Denmark published a study yesterday, made by Dwarf and Userneeds, showing that Facebook is the cause of $2 billion in loss of working hours. In a country with a population of 5,500,000 people, around 55,000 of them spend more than 30 minutes of their work day on Facebook, meaning a loss of [...]

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Facebook: Bigger Photos For Better Viewing

March 11, 2010

Ever since I started using Facebook, I’ve wondered why our uploaded photos always showed in such a low resolution, without the possiblity of enlarging them.
Now, Facebook has begun increasing upload size for photos from the previous 604 pixels maximum size, to 720 pixels, an increase of almost 20%.
I think 720 pixels is still quite low, [...]

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Facebook To Build Their Own Data Center In Oregon

January 25, 2010

Being one of the biggest websites in the world, with 350 million users, usually requires a thing or two when it comes to the servers hosting such a site. While I’m sure Facebook does not have 350 million active users, I’m sure they have many users to serve each day.
In April 2009, when the site [...]

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Facebook For iPhone Updated To 3.1 With Push Notifications

January 8, 2010

One of the most popular applications for iPhone and iPod Touch, Facebook, has just been updated to version 3.1 and now includes the long awaited Push Notifications.
Receiving the push notifications on your iPhone does not necessarily require that you have “Push” enabled, as this usually drains your battery rather quick. I have mine set up [...]

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Facebook: Top Status Trends 2009

December 23, 2009

Each year, Google announce the most popular searches throughout the year and now Facebook wants to get a piece of that pie. Facebook looks through words posted in status updates from users in the USA, to determine “words of the year”.

1st place: Various Facebook applications, where words such as “MafiaWars” and “FarmVille” are found very [...]

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How To Use Facebook To Fake An Alibi

November 19, 2009

This is a true story, folks!
Robert Bradford, a teenager from New York, can send his regards to Facebook for him not being sent to jail.
On October 17th he wrote a Facebook status update, from his father’s computer in Harlem, “Where’s my pancakes”.
The day later he was arrested, for a robbery commited around noon the day [...]

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Facebook Coming To A PlayStation 3 Near You

November 14, 2009

Sony just confirmed that Facebook is coming for the PlayStation 3, after several pictures revealed the social network on a PS3 a few days ago.
Facebook and Twitter is already scheduled to be released for Xbox 360 in a software update November 17th.
There’s still no news about when Facebook for PlayStation 3 will be available but [...]

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SEO Was Yesterday – Now Comes NFO (Facebook)

October 28, 2009

SEO, Search Engine Optmization, is what bloggers (and companies) do, to get as high a rank in the search engines as possible. Something you should always aim to do if you’re interested in search engine traffic finding their way to your site.
Now there’s a new concept on its way: News Feed Optimization (NFO).
Recent Facebook changes [...]

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Google & Bing In Twitter Search Battle

October 22, 2009

Microsoft announced having agreed a deal with Twitter on providing real-time searches in Bing from Twitter. A few hours later, Google announced pretty much the same deal.
Using Bing or Google, users should be able to search in Twitter messages, even just a few moments after they have been “tweeted”.
Microsoft already has a test version ready, [...]

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Woman Arrested For Virtual Poke On Facebook

October 13, 2009

Have you ever poked somebody on Facebook only to have them poke back at you and you then poked again and they did the same to you and before you knew it, you were inside an endless loop?
Facebook poking is perhaps the most simple way of “communication” within Facebook, even though it’s nothing else than [...]

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Facebook Gets Twitter-Like @Reply Feature In Status Updates

September 16, 2009

Facebook seems to be moving more and more into the whole Twitter thing recently and now they just added yet another Twitter like feature: “@Replies” in your status updates.
It’s very simple. As you write your status update, you just hit “@” on your keyboard and you can start writing the name of the person you [...]

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Facebook Lite: Facebook On A Diet (Updated With Screenshots)

September 11, 2009

In a world where you can get pretty much anything in a “diet” version with zero calories (well, in the food and drinks category at least) we can also soon enjoy a lighter version of Facebook called “Facebook Lite”.
This new version of the site comes with less features and no applications (no more invitations to [...]

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Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Released

August 28, 2009

iPhone users with a Facebook account, launch your App Store and download the latest release of the Facebook app for the iPhone. It has just been released in a 3.0 version.
Facebook app developer, Joe Hewitt, has been working on Facebook 3.0 for quite some time. He submitted it to Apple for review on August 16th [...]

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Facebook – Friend Or Foe ?

August 17, 2009

A few days ago, I wrote an article that was republished a number of times around the internet. In it I detailed a little bit of the angst being felt by people who had been banned or suspended while diddling around in the social network – Facebook.

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