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Tokbox Launches Video Chat for Facebook IM

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2008-07-02 22:24:02 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
Today Tokbox launched a Firefox plugin that enables video chat within Facebooks IM service. I checked it out an the plugin is pretty slick. You can install the application by checking out the Tokbox plugin page . The application places a link under each of your friends in the Facebook chat application and when you click it a lightbox is...
 
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Police Strike Again

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2008-07-02 15:41:02 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
Facebook is at again shutting down yet another large application on their platform for privacy violations. This time around theyve picked off the 24th most active application on the platform, Social Me. As Justin Smith writes ., If twos a coincidence and threes a trend, then the disappearance of Social Me tonight should raise all developers...
 
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Prostitutes: The New Facebook Scam?

2008-07-02 13:28:52 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
 
Yesterday, the Telegraph reported about a woman who had her identity stolen on Facebook. The strategy is simply: create another profile of a person but have inaccurate data about them in their profile. When people search for the user they end up finding a false version of their profile which can have horribly inaccurate details about them. The...
 
 
 
 
 
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Updated Details on F8 Event

2008-07-02 03:40:01 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
 
Facebook has posted updated details . on what panels will take place at their F8 event in San Francisco Later this month. Aside from a keynote by Mark Zuckerberg which will announced all of the new features on the platform, there will be three tracks that developers can take. While it appears that there will be a panel on developing on Facebook...
 
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Has Problems in China

2008-07-01 19:12:04 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
 
China is well known for their aggressive tactics in blocking content online due to heavy censorship policies. Their strategies appear transparent to the end user who simply sees the websites they are trying to access as unavailable. As such it is extremely difficult to detect whether there are actually DNS propagation issues or if Facebook is...
 
 
 
 
 
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Social Ad Summit 2008

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2008-07-01 12:55:36 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
If youve been paying attention over the past few months, there has been a lot of conversation about the monetization of social networks and a discussion about lack of revenue. I figured that this would provide a great opportunity to put together a conference strictly on this topic. We will seek answers to important questions that media buyers...
 
 
 
 
 
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Marc Andreessen to Join Facebooks Board

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2008-06-30 14:01:21 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
This article is a repost of the article originally posted on the Social Times Techcrunch is reporting that Marc Andreessen will be joining Facebooks board with Jim Breyer, Peter Thiel and the majority seat holder, Mark Zuckerberg. It has been rumored that Andreessen would be joining the board but now the news appears to be official Marc...
 
 
 
 
 
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Is Facebook Worth $15 Billion? Not Anymore

2008-06-29 14:27:51 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
 
Facebook used to have a valuation on $15 billion based on Microsofts investment in the company. According to Mike Arrington the new valuation is probably in the $3 - $4 billion range. According to Arrington and now Peter Kafka at Silicon Alley Insider has reported similar rumors One financial wealth manager is looking to unload some shares and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Slides Top Friends Remains Under Investigation

2008-06-27 14:00:11 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
 
Yesterday, news broke out that Slides Funwall application was no longer working and had been banned by Facebook for terms of service violations. According to a CNet news article, Until Facebook suspended the Top Friends app, created by Slide, anyone could browse partial profiles of anyone else on Facebook who had added Top Friends to their page....
 
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Steps on Hermaphrodite Toes

2008-06-27 13:00:11 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
 
Confused about your gender? Worry no more because Facebook is now requiring you to select a gender according to the Los Angeles Times . Facebook previously used the word themself in newsfeed stories but unfortunately themself is not really a word. As a result Facebook will be prompting users to specify whether or not they prefer to be referred...