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Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits
News BlackBerry users have racked up more than one million downloads of a Facebook app in the five months since it launched. Facebook for BlackBerry - which is free to download and launched on 24 October last year - allows users to perform a variety of... [02 Apr 2008]
Facebook ups privacy and says it wants to Chat
News Naomi Gleit, Facebook's product manager for privacy and internationalisation, previewed the updated options, which include a new "Friend of Friends" option based on social proximity - not unlike LinkedIn profiles, in which profile information is... [19 Mar 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications for social networking site Facebook to allow users to share and buy products with their friends. People can also get gift recommendations based on information on their friends' Facebook profiles. [14 Mar 2008]
Facebook goes all chocolaty
News Facebook users add the application to their profile then choose the gift - such as a Mars bar - and the friend they want to send it to before paying using their PayPal account. You can now send your Facebook friends chocolaty gifts which they can... [14 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up By and large, silicon.com’s CIO Jury is less than impressed with Facebook's potential for corporate networking. The uber-social networking phenomenon - Facebook, not the CIO Jury - is being snubbed by professional executives because of the... [18 Jan 2008]
Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging Within a Massive Online Network
White Paper This paper has analyzed the fully-anonymized headers of 362 million messages exchanged by 4.2 million users of Facebook, an online social network of college students, during a 26 month interval. Finally, it shows that Facebook users appear to be... [08 Jan 2008]
Leader: Should you ban Facebook?
Leader The rise and rise of social networking phenomenon Facebook has put the spotlight on how businesses should monitor and respond to staff use of such sites during the working day. It's just a fad," maybe a common response to putting in a social... [31 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.08.07
Round-Up According to one study, around half of UK businesses are cutting off their employee's access to Facebook because of the massive drain on productivity and the risk to security. As for the 50 per cent or so of businesses that don't lock down access... [24 Aug 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: How my iPod ate the weekend
Comment Most people I know now spend more time fancying up their Facebook page than actually talking to their real friends. A friend of mine - who perhaps understandably wishes to remain nameless - recently spend a weekend organising his vast collection of... [05 Jun 2007]
