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With Yahoo and MySpace rolling over, Facebook wins the social network war

Posted on December 5, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News | Tags: , , , |

By Sebastian Anthony, Download squad First up, Yahoo rescinds almost its entire social network presence in favor of Facebook Connect. And now, the rumors that MySpace would drop their social focus and aim towards a network based on content and entertainment seem to be playing out: MySpace are linking up with Facebook Connect. There’s a lot [...]

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Facebook plans to introduce “lite” version

Posted on August 12, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News | Tags: , , |

By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad A large number of Facebook users received a message yesterday, telling them they’d been invited to test something called Facebook Lite. The messages turned out to be an accident, and the users who received them couldn’t sign up. Because nobody’s seen it yet, there’s still a lot of speculation about what [...]

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Facebook Flips The Switch On Real-Time Search, Goes After Twitter Where It Hurts

Posted on August 11, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News | Tags: , , |

By Jason Kincaid, Tech crunch Just hours after we broke the news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed comes Facebook’s announcement that it’s deploying its improved search product to everyone. This improved search functionality, which has been in testing since June, gives users the ability to search through shared media and status updates from their friends [...]

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New Facebook iPhone App “Pretty Much Done”

Posted on August 10, 2009. Filed under: Apple, Facebook News | Tags: , , , |

By MG Siegler, Tech crunch As one of the most popular applications on Apple’s popular iPhone platform, a lot of users are eagerly awaiting the next version of the app. And that wait is almost over. “The app is pretty much done – we’re just working on translating it into a bunch of languages,” Facebook [...]

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iTunes 9: Blu-ray And App Organization And Twitter

Posted on August 10, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News, Gadget News, Music | Tags: , , , , |

By MG Siegler, Tech crunch This is completely a rumor, but an awesome one. Citing a “pretty reliable” source, Boy Genius Report is saying that the next version of iTunes will add a bunch of new, highly requested features. Specificially, BGR’s source says iTunes 9 features Blu-ray support, a new way to organize iPhone apps [...]

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TweetDeck beats Twhirl to the punch, adds Facebook support

Posted on March 18, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News, Twitter News | Tags: , , |

By Lee Mathews If you’ve been using TweetDeck without a dual-display setup, it’s just about time for you to make a purchase. With newly-announced support for Facebook, you’re going to need some more real estate. The release comes two short days after Twhirl frontman Loic Le Meur announced that Seesmic had released a standalone Facebook [...]

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Facebook’s Real-Time Homepage Goes Live Today

Posted on March 12, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News | Tags: , |

By Jason Kincaid Today Facebook is rolling out the update to user homepages that brings a new look, enhanced filter system, and most importantly, realtime updating. Real-time updates are Facebook’s response to Twitter, which has been able to thrive on offering users immediate updates from their friends and favorite celebrities (Facebook’s original News Feed took [...]

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Facebook Developers Getting Antsy Over Verified Apps Program

Posted on March 12, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News | Tags: , |

By Michael Arrington, Techcrunch Facebook’s Verified Apps program, first announced in Summer 2008, is a way for trusted application developers to be separated from the pack. But the program is yet to launch, and perceived delays and a lack of communication by Facebook is making some developers who signed up for the program a little [...]

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Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month

Posted on March 7, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News | Tags: , , , |

By Jason Kincaid, Techcrunch.com The mass media may be enamored of the rags-to-riches stories of developers on Apple’s App Store, but it isn’t the only game in town for indie developers to strike it rich. We’ve gotten word from SocialMedia, a popular ad platform for social network applications, that one of the company’s clients pulled [...]

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Facebook Apps Can Now Use Chat To Go Viral

Posted on March 6, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News | Tags: , , |

By Jason Kincaid, Techcrunch.com Facebook has just announced that applications on Facebook Platform can now be able to take advantage of the site’s built-in chat functionality, which launched last spring. Developers will now be able to present users with a list of their Facebook Chat buddies, tailoring the list to best suit their application (for [...]

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Facebook’s Response To Twitter

Posted on March 5, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News, Twitter News | Tags: , |

By Erick Schonfeld – Techcrunch.com Facebook made a number of announcements today about changes to its home page, profile pages, and activity streams. Taken together, these represent a concerted response to the rise of Twitter as a real-time message broadcasting system that goes beyond members’ personal circle of friends. One of the biggest changes is [...]

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Screen Shots: The New Facebook Home Page

Posted on March 5, 2009. Filed under: Facebook News | Tags: , |

By Michael Arrington – Techcrunch.com Here’s a clean look at the upcoming Facebook homepage redesign that will go live next week. The new design will give users the ability to easily feed the news stream by friend type and network, and gives users a much easier way to post links, photos and videos. The news [...]

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