Cyberscams Befriend Social Networks
Now those phony Nigerians may log on as your “friend.” How Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites are fighting a rise in scams
Remember the associate of that deposed dictator who needed your help transferring a few million dollars from a Swiss bank account? Well, he’s back. And he—or one of his ilk—may show [...]
Facebook Destroys Lucrative Birthday Reminder Industry
Facebook just added another extremely useful feature for users, and in doing so took out a slew of applications that do that same thing. You can now get a weekly email telling you, simply, which friends have birthdays coming up.
That’s good news for all of us who want more birthday information. It’s bad news for [...]
ONEsite Launches Proprietary Social Ad Platform
White label social networking software maker ONEsite is launching its very own advertising platform InteractAd today, essentially declaring traditional online advertising is past its prime and that it’s time for social advertising to take its place.
It Was Only a Matter of Time: The Facebook Phone Cometh
No, Facebook isn’t building its own phone. But UK mobile service provider 3 is launching a mobile phone whose primary function, besides making phone calls, is social networking.
The phone is called INQ1. Its specifications? Fairly standard: a 2.2 inch QVGA screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, HSDPA, accelerometer, 50MB + 4 GB of memory. The platform that [...]
Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again.
When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many people as it needed to and not worry about profitability or [...]
Exclusive: Streamy Returns for the FriendFeed Era
Streamy, a gorgeous online news reader, is making a comeback for the FriendFeed, Twitter and Facebook era.
Streamy’s new mantra: cutting through the online noise with personalized recommendations, groups and custom filters.
Motorola Readies Its Own Android Social Smartphone
Amid a boom in social-network-friendly handsets, Motorola prepares a new entry, but its Android may not debut until 2009’s second quarter
As the wireless world awaits the Oct. 22 debut of the first phone based on the Google-backed Android software, engineers at Motorola (MOT) are hard at work on their own Android handset. Motorola’s version [...]
New Facebook Home Page, New Facebook Tagline Means Too Many Marketing Meetings At Facebook
Facebook launched more than a new iPhone app this evening - they also have a new home page (the page you see when you aren’t logged in) and a new tagline. Gone is all the descriptive language suggesting you sign up to “Keep up with friends and family,” “Share photos and videos,” “Control privacy online,” [...]
hi5 Makes Translation Easy for Developers
by Stan Schroeder
Social network hi5 has launched a language translation tool fully compliant with the OpenSocial 0.8 standard. The tool will make it easy for developers to localize their applications, while the users will be able to communicate in their language of choice not only on hi5, but also when using third-party applications available on [...]
Facebook, Google, FriendFeed (Who Else?) Dives Into Talk Like A Pirate Day
Ok, it’s clever. Facebook added a translated version of the site today in honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day. But instead of seeing Facebook in French or Esperanto, you can see Facebook in “Pirate.” Just go here and select English (Pirate).
