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Pew Study Finds Facebook Power Concentrated in Relatively Few Friends
Published on 4 Feb, 2012 at 7:57 in Technology | | No Comments
An in-depth look at Facebook user behavior reveals some interesting trends among this more than 800- million constituency: One, Facebook users tend to receive more from the Facebook friends than they give out; two, there is a solid core of users that are very active on the site.
The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project report on the…
Facebook scammers exploit Steve Jobs’ death
Published on 6 Oct, 2011 at 7:48 in Technology | | No Comments
With the internet lighting up to express sadness at the death of Steve Jobs, security experts are warning of scammers attempting to take advantage.
According to Graham Cluley of Sophos, one Facebook scam has already emerged, purporting to offer users free iPads ‘in memory’ of Jobs.
“The cool-sounding link sucks you in, tricking you into believing that you may…
Yahoo now shows what your friends have been reading
Published on 23 Sep, 2011 at 12:18 in Technology | | No Comments
Yahoo has linked the US version of Yahoo News with Facebook, allowing users to share articles they’ve read on the news site with Facebook friends.
The opt-in News Activity feature appears as a ‘facebar’ of friends’ profile pictures’ clicking on one shows what that person has been reading. Yahoo news activities will also appear on their Facebook profiles.
“Now, we are…
Facebook wants to revamp social networking
Published on 23 Sep, 2011 at 11:15 in Technology | | No Comments
As expected, Facebook made some rather sweeping changes and additions to its popular social network today at the company’s F8 conference in San Francisco.
To help you sort through all the commentary we’ve listed the most important features and changes below – which are expected to roll out over the next few weeks.
The Timeline
The Facebook Timeline will purportedly tell the…
Why I don’t really HATE Facebook’s redesign
Published on 22 Sep, 2011 at 8:02 in Technology | | No Comments
Another day, another Facebook redesign, and cries of “I hate it!” and “Facebook, you totally wrecked my whole, like, you know, LIFE,” are flooding the web.
Mostly on Facebook itself – which now seems to include the entire web. But what makes this redesign so different from other redesigns? Pretty much nothing. In fact, it’s not even…
25% of US Web time is spent on social networks
Published on 13 Sep, 2011 at 11:10 in Technology | | No Comments
15 minutes of every hour we spend online is devoted to social media, according to the latest research from Nielsen.
The firm found that Facebook was far and away the most popular social networking site, and thus the most popular site period. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
What may come as a surprise, though, is Tumblr. Nielsen…
Coming next month: Facebook Music
Published on 2 Sep, 2011 at 9:47 in Technology | | No Comments
Next month, there will one more reason for everyone to stay logged into Facebook 24/7.
No longer will you need to tear yourself away from the social networking site if you want to relax and listen to some tunes to get you through the day.
According to a report from CNBC, Facebook’s own music streaming service is set to go live…
Reports of Facebook’s trillionth page view are false
Published on 26 Aug, 2011 at 7:35 in Technology | | No Comments
News stories about Facebook reaching a staggering one trillion page views are completely erroneous.
At all started when online advertising group Doubleclick AdPlanner showed in its latest report that the social networking site climbed up to one trillion page views during June.
The story got picked up by blogs and sites around the Web. Many of the major news sites,…
Facebook optimizes privacy settings
Published on 24 Aug, 2011 at 9:39 in Technology | | No Comments
Facebook has announced a number of “improvements” designed to make it easier for users of the popular social networking site to share posts, photos, tags and other content with a specified audience.
As part of the revamped privacy changes, most user controls have been moved from the settings page to being inline, right next to the posts, photos and…
Facebook blames algorithm for censoring activists
Published on 23 Aug, 2011 at 5:31 in Technology | | No Comments
In case you haven’t heard, there were some alleged censorship issues with Facebook over the weekend. We can blame it on an algorithm – at least for now.
According to the AP, the social networking site emailed notes of apology for blocking environmental activists and others from posting on Facebook pages with similar interests.
The most recent problems with Facebook aren’t…
German state bans Facebook ‘Like’ button
Published on 22 Aug, 2011 at 10:14 in Technology | | No Comments
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has ordered organizations to remove the Facebook ‘Like’ button from their websites and shut down fan pages.
The Independent Center for Privacy Protection (ULD) says it’s taken the measure because information on ‘Likes’ is sent back to Facebook in the US and used to create a personal profile, contravening Germany’s tight privacy laws.
“Whoever visits…