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Yahoo Expands Integration With Facebook

Yahoo Inc will let users of its email, photo-sharing and other online products link their content and activities directly into Facebook, the world’s No. 1 Internet social network. Yahoo’s support of the Facebook Connect service, which it said it expects to begin in the first half of 2010, represents an important move inYahoo ’s efforts to [...]

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Facebook CEO: Prepare for Some Big Privacy Changes

In a rare open letter, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a series of privacy changes, starting with the removal of regional networks. Since its inception, Facebook has been based on networks. First, it was your college and university, then it was your city or region, and now it’s a combination of those, plus [...]

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Yahoo’s Newest Strategy: Lots and Lots of Facebook

With more than 350 million users, Facebook is winning the social networking race by a landslide. But another area they’re winning big (in large part due to that growth) is in portable identity, where their Facebook Connect platform competes with offerings from Google, Twitter and MySpace. Today, Facebook is getting a massive new partner for Connect: [...]

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Facebook Revamps its Privacy Policy

Earlier this year, Facebook was hammered for changes it made to its Terms of Service. The result was an uproar that eventually led to the Facebook Democracy, an initiative by Facebook to let users vote and comment on its governing documents. The result was positive, but that didn’t end the criticism. Most recently, the Canadian [...]

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Sign-In to MySpace With Facebook?

It could be the ultimate admission of defeat, or, a pretty smart move given its current strategy. According to The Telgraph, MySpace is currently discussing a partnership with Facebook where music and video content published to MySpace could easily be shared on Facebook via Facebook Connect. How far that Connect implementation might go isn’t clear, [...]

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Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Email Contains Virus

Another new virus is overextension through social networks, this time, via Facebook. This one – accepted as Bredolab – masks itself as a “Password Reset Confirmation Email,” appears to appear from Facebook, and attaches a book that purports to accommodate a new password. That file is actually a trojan horse that will download a host of [...]

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Facebook Wins Legal Victory Over Power.com

If you haven’t been following the data ownership scuffle, it’s been a back-and-fourth mélee with Facebook first filing suit against Power.com for allegedly using Facebook user data (primarily a member’s user name and password) without authorization. Then in July, Power.com counter-sued Facebook with claims of unfair competition, and stopped supporting the site as part of [...]

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How To Find and Add Facebook Apps

With over 300 million users, Facebook is undeniably one of the best places to keep in touch with friends, and one of the reasons it’s so popular are its applications. Most of Facebook’s user-favorite features, like its massively popular photo sharing, video sharing, user groups, or events functionality, are powered by applications. These core apps [...]

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Facebook Strips Down

Popular social networking site Facebook has launched a slimmed down version for those with slow or poor internet connections – read India. The Lite site will be faster and simpler because it will offer fewer services than the main site. Those who switch to Facebook Lite and don’t like it can switch back to the [...]

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Orkut Now Accessible Via Facebook

Facebook is fast gaining popularity as one of the safer social networking sites and adding to that popularity is the fact that now Facebook users can access their Orkut accounts with the MyOrkut application, created by Jeetu Mirchandani, an ex-IIT Mumbai student, without leaving the site. The social networking site also allows members to add an [...]

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