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Facebook launches APIs in bid to boost apps
News Facebook is looking to unleash a new wave of applications to get its users creating and sharing more content. The social-networking company has launched a number of APIs (application programming interfaces) that will let developers access content...
[February 9, 2009, 12:33]
facebook.com Search Widget
Downloads Facebook Search is a lightweight widget that makes it easy to look up student information on the facebook.com community.
[December 27, 2005, 7:00]
OpenSocial, Facebook, Microsoft vie for developers
News Giants Facebook and Microsoft, however, have so far failed to jump on the OpenSocial bandwagon. Facebook has 125 million active users around the world, but its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is seeking to establish Facebook as an 'open...
[November 18, 2008, 17:17]
Facebook provides free tool for translating sites
News Facebook has released free technology that will let web developers automatically translate their sites into a variety of languages, as long as those sites use Facebook Connect. Translations for Facebook Connect is based on the Translations...
[September 30, 2009, 13:23]
Facebook is just protecting its users
Talkback I think i have to side with Facebook on this one; being open is one thing, what Robert Scoble tried to do is put people's private details on a social network they never chose to be a part of. Plaxo acuses Facebook of doing the same thing, but lets...
[January 4, 2008, 22:21]
Facebook Exporter for iPhoto
Downloads Facebook Exporter for iPhoto is a free plugin for iPhoto that enables you to export photos directly to your Facebook account.
[October 7, 2009, 15:35]
MySpace, Google, Facebook: Developer love - who will win their hearts?
Blog You’ll no doubt have noticed that MySpace has piped up with the launch date next week for its programme to encourage external software developers to develop both useful and (no doubt) “fun” applications in the style of those seen on Facebook.
[February 1, 2008, 7:53]
Facebook gets open-source enterprise app
News The open-source enterprise content management firm Alfresco has announced what it claims is the first enterprise application to use the Facebook platform. The London-based enterprise content management (ECM) company has integrated its system with...
[November 16, 2007, 10:33]
Facebook closes fake profiles spreading malware
News Facebook on Thursday fended off an attack in which multiple identical profiles were created to spread malware. Clearly, the Data Snatchers have found a way to automate the creation of Facebook accounts, which means they've found a way to bypass the...
[October 2, 2009, 8:56]
Facebook engineers' motto: 'Move fast, break stuff'
News More than eight billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day, vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer said in a talk on Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Five billion calls to Facebook's application program interface were...
[October 22, 2009, 12:27]
Facebook to fork out £5.9m in privacy settlement
News Facebook has settled a year-old class-action lawsuit that targeted the social network's alleged failure to provide adequate information and privacy controls to users with regard to Beacon, which shared information about users' information on third...
[September 21, 2009, 14:44]
Facebook email privacy has a hole
Blog Here's the text of a message I sent out to all my Facebook contacts today: Some of you show your email addresses on your Facebook profiles, some of you don't. Fair enough: that's called privacy, and that's what Facebook's privacy settings are for.
[January 12, 2008, 12:58]
Facebook: A boon to business security?
News While some employers are banning staff from accessing Facebook, fearing security risks and lowered productivity, GE Commercial Finance is encouraging use of the social networking site to improve staff security practices.
[October 29, 2007, 9:25]
UPDATE: Facebook closes privacy hole
Blog Earlier today I posted about my discovery that users of Facebook's mobile version could see all of their friends' email addresses that had been used to set up their Facebook accounts. I killed some time on the bus by logging into Facebook.
[January 12, 2008, 18:21]
Facebook backs down on privacy terms
News Social-networking site Facebook has backed down over a new privacy policy, reverting to its former terms of use on Tuesday night after complaints from users and a leading US data-protection group. The new privacy policy, introduced two weeks ago...
[February 18, 2009, 15:02]
Facebook’s faltering favours
Blog Tom Hodgkinson writes in yesterday’s Guardian that he, “despises Facebook,” for its ability to socially disconnect people and chain them to their keyboards with a false sense of virtual social connectivity.
[January 15, 2008, 11:24]
Facebook email privacy has a hole
Blog Comment If you look at my subsequent post and its comments, you will see that Facebook reacted to this post very quickly, first removing the "contacts" feature then bringing it back, but without showing the email addresses.
[January 14, 2008, 8:09]
Facebook evolves into an attack tool for criminals
News As Facebook evolves from a University alumini network into an enterprise tool, VeriSign iDefense security experts are warning that the platform is turning into a prime attack vector for cybercriminals.
[July 30, 2007, 8:18]
Facebook email privacy has a hole
Blog Comment Quickly, export your facebook contacts with email addresses while you can (export facebook contacts).
[January 14, 2008, 7:58]
Facebook calls for payment apps testers
News Facebook posted a set of announcements on its developer blog on Wednesday, most notably a call for alpha testers for the Facebook Credits virtual currency platform it is launching after much speculation.
[July 16, 2009, 11:00]
