Category: Facebook
BREAKING: Facebook down for over five hours in many territories
News coming in of some serious down-time issues being experienced by some Facebook users. Twitter is buzzing with reports from Sweden, Norway and other European nations that the social network is firing-up blank pages for the many, many users in…
Foursquare Launches Business Pages
Foursquare, has announced that they will be revamping its business pages in order to target brands and local businesses. This move comes as the location-based social network service faces increasing competition from Facebook Places. The revamped "Foursquare for Business"…
Tatty Teddy takes on Farmville in new Facebook social game
Looking for a new Facebook game that doesn't involve ploughing fields or sheep dipping? Then take a look at the cutesy Me To You: My Place game, looking to lure players away from their homesteads and into the arms…
Facebook friends get the pin-up treatment with Social Artworks
Can't get enough of your Facebook friends? You can now pin them onto your bedroom walls as well as stalk their relationship statuses thanks to Social Artworks. They'll take all or your carefully selected pals and turn their profile pictures…
Facial recognition coming to Facebook photos
Facial recognition tech is coming to your Facebook photo uploads, meaning you may never again have to type in your pal's names in order to tag them in your pictures. Facebook will be grouping people on your friends list with…
Facebook founder Zuckerberg crowned Time magazine's Person of the Year
The much-coveted Time magazine Person of the Year award has one to Facebook founder and multi-billionairre Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg took the prize for "connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a…
Facebook Visualizes Global Friendships
Paul Butler, an intern on Facebook's data infrastructure engineering team, recently created this incredible social graph visualizing the Facebook connections around the globe. Butler started out by using a sample of 10 million friend pairs, correlated them with their…
Top Trends On Facebook For 2010
Earlier this week both Google and Twitter shared with us 2010's top searches and topics respectively. Now its Facebook's turn to let us know what its users have been talking about this year. In order to determine the top trends,…
Facebook's Zuckerberg to give away over half his $6.9 billion wealth
Following in the footsteps of the philanphropic work of other tech billionaire Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that he is to give away over half of his $6.9 billion wealth to charity either before or following his…
Facebook profile pages to get a makeover
Facebook boss has previewed the social network's new-look profile pages during a guest spot on US talk show 60 Minutes. The changes aim to put all the most frequently accessed information on a profile page in one place, without…