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Facebook is a Social Networking service launched in 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. At first, only students from Harvard could join the service, but over time more users were allowed to join. Today, Facebook remains the leader in social networking, but most importantly, it is the top online identity provider as the overwhelming majority of Facebook users have registered using their real identities.If you have a Facebook account, you can use Ubergizmo’s Social Reader.
GM OnStar system gets audio Facebook updates among others
09/14/2010, It seems that rumors of Facebook integration swirling around last week proved to be true, as General Motors (GM) has just revealed that audio Facebook updates, voice texting capability and applications which control your car from your phone are now [...]
Letting People Know Your Location Via Facebook Places Could Get You Robbed
09/10/2010, With location-based services on the rise, and given Facebook‘s popularity, its recently launched Facebook Places location check-in feature should make it a good choice for you to let friends and others know where you are. The problem is, when others–those [...]
Facebook Patents New Social CAPTCHA System
09/10/2010, Facebook has filed for an interesting patent on a new technology that it hopes will help ward of the scammers and hackers on Facebook. The patent describes a new CAPTCHA system that will make use of the user’s social graph, [...]
Facebook Integration Coming To GM’s OnStar System
09/08/2010, This might be taking the Facebook madness a little too far, but reports are going around that General Motors’ in-car system system OnStar could be receiving a software update that would allow Facebook integration as early as this month. If [...]
Spammers exploit Facebook vulnerability
09/07/2010, Spammers decided to take advantage of a vulnerability that has been discovered in Facebook, where it will spread auto-replicating links without the need for social engineering to come into the picture. All that one needs to do is click on [...]
Facebook Search Patent Returns Results Based On Your Social Network
08/31/2010, If there was any doubt that Facebook and Google were on collision course, the recent patent that Facebook was awarded regarding certain types of search algorithms should dispel that. The social networking giant has managed to patent the “ranking of [...]
Facebook Sues Copycat Teacher Network Teachbook Site
08/26/2010, Citing trademark infringement, social networking heavyweight is suing a startup networking site Teachbook for using “book” in its name. In the suit, Facebook is alleging federal trademark dilution, trademark infringement and unfair competition. Teachbook, which says that it is a [...]
Free iPad offer on Facebook and Twitter is a scam
08/26/2010, Every generation has its fair share of people who are gullible enough to believe that there is a free lunch – only to find out the painful way later on that they have been conned. Well, you might have spotted [...]
Facebook For iOS Has Over 100M Users
08/23/2010, Facebook and Apple’s iOS devices are pretty useful services/devices that many people use day-to-day and there’s some pretty fancy news for the folks over at Facebook as it has been confirmed that Facebook for iOS has over 100 million active [...]
Facebook Launches Places, Its Location Check-in Service
08/19/2010, As expected, Facebook has launched Facebook Places, the social networking giant’s equivalent to Foursquare’s location check-in service. Users using the service will be able to check-in in a similar fashion to Foursquare, and can even tag friends who are in [...]
New Windows Live Messenger Offers Facebook Chat Integration
08/17/2010, Facebook integration is becoming increasingly important to any application that wants to be significant, and the latest Windows Live Messenger that is included with Windows Live Essentials beta 2 offers a pretty useful feature, which is the ability to chat [...]
Will Facebook Announce Geolocation Service This Wednesday?
08/17/2010, The folks over at Foursquare might have something to worry about, as Facebook has begun to send out invitations for a news event at its Silicon Valley HQ this Wednesday. While it wasn’t explicitly mentioned what the event will be [...]
Facebook Hires Spotify’s Chief Designer, Music Service On The Way?
08/11/2010, Speculation is going around that Facebook could be working on a music service similar to Spotify. This rumor began to circulate due to Spotify’s chief designer Rasmus Andersson being hired by Facebook, though it wasn’t entirely clear what the game [...]
