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The last thing alleged Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik did before embarking on his shooting spreee was to check in with his more than 7,000 friends on Facebook. We think that’s an unusually large friend list for a murderer –don’t killers tend to have few to no friends? Even more unusual, the BBC claims the killer only [...]
Facebook has moved the first of group of employees into its new campus in Menlo Park, California. This isn’t an early move-in, as the company had mentioned it would phase-in the move over the course of a year. TechCrunch discovered that Facebook Product Architect Aaron Sittig posted a photo album late on July 21 entitled Building [...]
Facebook is affecting not only how people connect with each other, but how the news is being gathered. In a Facebook Live broadcast on July 12, CNN host Fareed Zakaria shared his opinion on what he thought about the social media tool. “How I see it, Facebook allows us that most important thing that used [...]
The rumors of Netflix integrating with Facebook will finally graduate from to fact, but only for users in Canada and Latin America, initially. Netflix’s latest earnings announcement included news that it will officially launch integration with the social network in Canada and Latin America sometime during the third quarter. Before U.S. Facebook users can gain access [...]
Unfortunately, with the death of any high profiled celebrity, opportunistic scammers will try to capitalize off internet traffic and interest following said death. So it’s no surprise Amy Winehouse death scams took to Facebook just hours after she was found dead in her Camden home on Saturday. Watch where you click when this star’s name [...]
When a user clicks one of your ads, you have an opportunity. A person in your target market is saying, “I’ll go wherever you send me.” So, you need to create your ad to answer that question in a way that benefits your company as much as possible. If you’re usingFacebook ads, that means deciding [...]
Facebook has apparently disabled RSS links on pages, about a year and a half after incorporating them. Although they have never been completely consistent on this issue, it is telling that this feature has been silently disabled. Blogger Jessie Stay points out that users can no longer subscribe to someone’s Facebook Page via RSS. After [...]
Imagine your favorite television series. Now imagine interacting with fellow fans, online, as players of an interactive digital game based on the show. Fans of the Fox psychological television drama, “The Booth at the End,” recently debuted in London, can do just that. A new social game called “The Deal” was recently created for Facebook [...]
Unless you enjoy exposing yourself and those you care about tomalware and spam, don’t click on anything touting a game based on theTwilight series of movies and books by Stephenie Meyer. Our friends at Sophos were the first to point out a rogue application promising “Play Twilight: Breaking Dawn Be the first of your friends to play [...]
I’ve been going back and forth with the editor of our sibling blog, AllFacebook.de, about how the 17.9 million German users of Facebook have migrated from usingStudiverzeichnis, or StudiVZ for short. Both in Germany and here, Facebook didn’t come first, but people migrated to the Palo Alto-based social network after first using other sites. The main [...]