Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Facebook has taken down a web page devoted to fraudulent investor Bernard Madoff. The page had been very popular in recent days, and had comments from people both supporting Madoff's actions and those offended by them.
One writer, identified as Samuel, applauded Madoff yesterday in French, for pulling off “the ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
The lawsuit against the Facebook application, Scrabulous, has been dropped by Hasbro, manufacturers of the famed Scrabble board game. Before its' demise, the game, which was created by two Indian brothers, was the most popular application on Facebook.
The brothers version of Scrabulous was scrapped from Facebook when the lawsuit ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Nokia is looking to forge a closer relationship with social networking giant Facebook. The cell phone maker now has a number of apps ready for Facebook and is hoping to come up with even more offerings in coming months.
Nokia's "Share on Ovi" media sharing service was opened as a ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The classic board game Scrabble has found a new home on the internet. Members of Facebook will soon be able to play the official Hasbro game while visiting the website.
Facebook members were already playing a knock off of the game called Scrabulous which was developed by Rajat and Jayant ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
The Lisbon Referendum Commission is looking to change public policy, so they've decided to advertiser where they think their voters are, namely the major social networks. They feel that young people are using the sites, and that's what makes them a good place to advertise.
Chairman of the commission, Mr ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The internet is a big place with all sorts of people using it - some are good people and others are not.
Social networks are the places that all walks of life come together in an online environment. Needless to say, this could mean trouble for some members there.
Facebook recently announced ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Social networks are becoming more a part of everyone's lives, even in sometimes deleterious ways. The soldier did something that millions of people do everyday, he posted his photo on the popular FaceBook website. The difference for him, is that he works for the IDF, and is supposed ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
A Saudi Arabian woman has been beaten to death by her father. Apparently the woman was chatting with a man she met on Facebook, when the father came into the room. Enraged, he beat her until she was dead, according to the al-Arabiya website.
The death actually occurred in ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Britain is seeking to enact a law that would prevent pedophiles from using online social networks like FaceBook. Of course enforcement could be an issue. The plan calls for pedophiles to give their email addresses to the police, who will contact the social networks and have the person ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Facebook has passed a milestone of over one million downloads for Blackberry phones.
"When we launched Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones, we believed that consumers would recognize the value of marrying social networking with mobility and that vision has now been validated more than a million times," said Mark Guibert, ...
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