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Facebook announced on their blog today that they are testing a new version of Facebook Search. By the looks of it this is an attempted rival to Twitter‘s real time social search engine Twitter Search. The new search feature is only being rolled out to a very limited number of testers for now, but from [...]

ReadWriteWeb reported yesterday that the NewsFeed application, which allowed you to export your Facebook NewsFeed in RSS and publish it pubilcally, has been shut down down by Facebook. A Facebook software engineer, Ari Steinberg commented that “We’re certainly not opposed to enabling you to export your own content (in fact, we’re always trying to work [...]

This week, Facebook made a very significant change to what can be done with your data by opening up your activity streams to developers. What does this mean? Well it provides a number of new opportunities for what can be done with your data in Facebook. Firstly, it has spawned the creation of a new [...]

No, it’s not Facebook. The largest social networking site in the world is QZone, a Chinese based social networking site. You may not have heard of it, but according to Tencent who recently published a report on the subject, MySpace following a little bit behind. Tencent says that of the 200 million or so accounts, [...]

It has been recently announced that popular social bookmarking site Facebook will no longer be acquiring up and coming micro-blogging website Twitter. Facebook have in the past publically admitted to being a fan of Twitter, however, due to several reasons, a potential deal could not be agreed. The popularity of Twitter has grown significantly in [...]

Mark Zuckenberg, founder of Facebook, has never taken Facebook down the traditional internet advertising route. “Advertising on the web is less about just hitting someone with a message,” he says. “It’s about engagement [with that user].” Following this belief, Facebook has now taken the latest step in its online advertising with the introduction of ‘engagement [...]

Ok, so its not the first time users can experience 3D virtual life on the net. Programs such as Second Life have been around for a bit and have proved popular to a set of users our there but to really bring this virtual reality to desktops the world over takes, well, social networks of [...]

Jon Swift received the following email from Facebook the other day. Hi, Fake accounts are a violation of our Terms of Use.Facebook requires users to provide their real first and lastnames. Impersonating anyone or anything is prohibited.Unfortunately, we will not be able to reactivate this accountfor any reason. This decision is final. Thanks for your [...]