Facebook Comes to Kindle

Man, Facebook just can’t be escaped, can it? The new Kindle 2.5 software update adds Facebook and Twitter support to the e-reader, which means there’s officially not a single gadget out there that doesn’t connect to the social network sites. Okay, so my toaster can’t access Facebook yet. Just MySpace. The Kindle 2.5 update also adds [...more]

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Apr 29 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

Facebook Beats Yahoo, Is Now 2nd Most Visited Site Worldwide

Web analytics company Compete.com has reported that Facebook has vaulted past Yahoo to become the second most visited site on the web behind Google. Until two years ago, Yahoo was the most popular site on the planet. It was overtaken by Google, and now, Facebook, falling to the third most visited site on the web. It’s always [...more]

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Feb 21 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Facebook Petition Emerges To Halt Facebook Coal Power Usage

Facebook’s just built it’s first custom data center to keep up with the demands of being the world’s second most popular website. But according to a report from Fast Company, that shiny new data center may be powered by some old, black coal. Fast Comapny reports on a petition circulating to stop Facebook from usingĀ  coal [...more]

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Feb 20 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Google Buzz Hits 9 Million Posts & Comments

What the hell is Google Buzz anyway? A BBS embedded in Gmail? A Twitter-killer? The death of Facebook? Well whatever it is, it’s got over 9 million posts and comments since its launch on Tuesday. That’s over 160,000 comments & posts per hour, and 200 posts per minute by mobile device. That’s incredible for a service [...more]

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Feb 12 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Facebook Iz In Ur Profile, Violatin Ur Privacy

Facebook CEO Mark Zimmerberg recently went on record as saying that people care less about privacy today. That’s why this anonymous interview with a Facebook employee, which surfaced on The Rumpus recently, is so telling. In the interview, the employee claims that there was once a master password that allowed Facebook employees to [...more]

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Jan 14 2010
By Geoffrey Golden

Facebook Updates Lead To Recapture Of British Prison Escapee

After escaping from Hollesley Bay Prison in Suffolk, England, Craig Lynch worried that perhaps his family and friends were having a hard time keeping up with his ongoing flight from the Queen’s iron-fisted justice. “How will my mum ever know that I had to crawl through a mile and a half of sewage while Morgan Freeman [...more]

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Jan 13 2010
By Nex

Facebook CEO Says, ‘Privacy Shmivacy’

During his talk at the Consumer Electronics Show, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed the theme of privacy, as it relates to his company. “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people,” Zuckerberg said. “We view it as our role in the system [...more]

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Jan 11 2010
By Geoffrey Golden