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The Facebook Killer Is Jailed started by Nick O'Neill
Over the past few days there has been a lot of buzz about a man who killed his wife after seeing that his wife switched their relationship status to “single”. According to Paul Cheston, the man “drank alcohol and took cocaine before driving 15 miles to the fami
Scott Rafer: The Facebook Platform is Dead started by Nick O'Neill
When speaking at the Facebook developer conference today in Berlin, Scott Rafer declared that Facebook platform dead. He posted statistics including one that I posted that suggests Facebook widgets are dead. Lookery’s own statistics from Quantcast suggest that their publisher traffic
The Facebook Breakup started by Nick O'Neill
This guy dumped Facebook for Twitter. I’m not sure it’s exactly a substitute but the video is short and entertaining.
Side note: The past few posts have all been relationship oriented for some reason. Hopefully I’ll have some news to post in the next few hou
Side note: The past few posts have all been relationship oriented for some reason. Hopefully I’ll have some news to post in the next few hou
Keeping Your Facebook Profile Professional started by Nick O'Neill
It has become a standard of practice for young professionals: logging in to monitor the photos and videos that friends tag them in. In a recent interview with NPR (embedded below), CareerBuilder.com found that one in five employers check Facebook profiles when researching a potential job ca
Does a Facebook Relationship Make it Official? started by Nick O'Neill
This afternoon I got in a conversation with someone about the logistics of Facebook relationships. Recently I’ve met a variety of individuals that each have different policies on when they make a relationship official on Facebook and whether or not they ever do. Ultimately relationship
Facebook’s Inherently Restrictive Policies started by Nick O'Neill
This morning I was thinking about some features that would actually make the events application on Facebook more useful. Unfortunately though, there are significant limits to what you can access on Facebook events. I took a look at the developer wiki and for instance, the Events.getMembers met
The Insider Launches Facebook Connect Service started by Nick O'Neill
The Insider, a site for celebrity gossip and other entertainment news has launched a service that takes advantage of Facebook Connect. I had a chance to check out the integration and it’s pretty interesting. Unfortunately many of the features weren’t loading correctly but
Facebook’s Problem: Not Enough Good Inventory started by Nick O'Neill
Over the past few months I have been spending a fair amount of time testing out Facebook’s advertising platform. While I’ve been advertising since early on, when Facebook’s program was called “Flyers”, I never had a chance to put subst
Facebook Music: It’s Back! started by Nick O'Neill
Over the past year and a half, rumors of Facebook music have come and gone. We even had sources previously report to us about an executive search going on for an individual to run the Facebook music arm. Today the New York Post is reporting that in the wake of MySpace Music launching [...]
Facebook Hires New Director of Engineering started by Nick O'Neill
Today Facebook announced the hiring of a new Director of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer. Mike led the the development team at Mozilla and was CTO at Sun Microsystems. Mike will be reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg until a Vice President of Engineering position is filled.
Facebook continues t
Facebook continues t
Facebook Users Experiencing Timeout Issues started by Nick O'Neill
This afternoon a Facebook user sent me a copy of his interaction with Facebook regarding an issue that he experienced in which he was repeatedly timed out after logging in. While it isn’t clear why this is happening, there’s no doubt that he’s the only user exp
Facebook Adds Quirky New Feature started by Nick O'Neill
This week Facebook added an interesting feature to the new profile design. Apparently there is now a link which states “Write something about yourself.” As pictured to the left, you simply click on it, type something and save it. That’s all there is to the
Breaking: Facebook Taking on FriendFeed, Launching Mini-Feed Comments started by Nick O'Neill
Facebook has just announced that comments will be added to mini-feed momentarily. Here are the details that Facebook provided me with:
What is changing?
Users will be able to comment on content right in-line within their friendsâ Mini-Feed. For instance, rather than having to cl
What is changing?
Users will be able to comment on content right in-line within their friendsâ Mini-Feed. For instance, rather than having to cl
Facebook Removes Friend Timeline started by Nick O'Neill
Facebook appears to be cutting the fat on the website as of late. The most recent item to disappear from the website was Facebook gifts. It has now been hidden and you need to choose to have the application displayed in your sidebar. In the past day or so, Facebook has apparently [...]
Where’s the Facebook Browser? started by Nick O'Neill
Throughout the day I’ve been pondering the state of Facebook and how it functions as an operating system. Last night’s design change made me realize that Facebook is indeed trying to become the web OS but there is one problem with their system right now: how can a website
Don’t Get Blocked for Being Too Social on Facebook! started by Nick O'Neill
Hey you! Don’t let me catch you adding too many friends or messaging too many users or you’ll wind up getting blocked! You may have seen it yourself, a warning dialog box which pops up and alerts you that your activity is of a rate similar to someone that is a
Get A Date on Facebook started by Nick O'Neill
IAmFreeTonight.com has released an application for Facebook that matches you up with dates and wingmen. It is a pretty slick application but currently only has a few people on it. There are definitely some downfalls to the application such as the fact that it reveals your full name and location to
Another Addictive Facebook Game started by Nick O'Neill
TravelPod.com has launched a number of Facebook applications but this one seems to top the rest. The Traveler IQ Challenge currently has close to 400,000 users and is growing rapidly. There is a reason for the viral growth. The Traveler IQ Challenge application provides users with an interactiv
It’s All About Growth for Facebook started by Nick O'Neill
Earlier this week Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, had an opportunity to address an audience at the American Magazine Conference. At the event Sandberg highlighted many of the challenges for Facebook that have been covered numerous times on this site. First and foremost,
Facebook IM Phishing Scam Found started by Nick O'Neill
Over the past few months Facebook has been having some serious problems when it comes to spammers. Despite allocating significant resources toward battling the spam problem, it still continues to be a serious issue. One of the most frequently used tricks by spammers is guiding them to websites w
Facebook Dating Proves Profitable for SNAP Interactive started by Nick O'Neill
SNAP Interactive (Ticker: STVI) the company behind “Are You Interested” and “Meet New People”, announced revenue guidance today for the third quarter. The company is estimating that they will have revenue of $870,000, up from $35,383
Facebook Surpasses 10 Billion Photos started by Nick O'Neill
This evening Facebook announced that they have surpassed the 10 billion photo milestone. In terms of files, that is over 40 billion files since there is 4 image sizes store for each individual photo. Doug Beaver provided some other interesting statistics including:
There are between 2 and
There are between 2 and
Breaking: Facebook Announces fbFund Winners started by Nick O'Neill
Today Facebook announced the recipients of the second fbFund. I am including the press release below momentarily.
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