Posts Tagged ‘ Facebook ’

Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, rumors of Facebook’s imminent demise spread across the internet like wind-driven fire through dry brush, topping Google Trends and inspiring a flurry of very troubled Tweets. Consider them the equivalent of Chicken Little gone viral, and count them as more living proof of the internet’s capacity for...
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World domination may still remain just beyond Facebook’s grasp, but the monster social networking site continues its relentless conquest of the internet. The latest in its string of jaw-dropping accomplishments: Facebook ranked first in the Experian Hitwise calculations of most-visited American websites, accounting for nearly 9% of all US wbsite visits between January and...
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Facebook founder and feature film icon Mark Zuckerberg smiles from the cover of this week’s Time magazine, his wry smile befitting his anointing as Time’s Person of the Year. Announcing the honor, Time editors wrote, “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new...
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Addressing the usual legions of reporters and fans, Mark Zuckerberg told a San Francisco audience Monday, “This is not an e-mail killer. This is a messaging system that includes e-mail as one part of it.” Zuckerberg acknowledged that users will have the option of creating “@facebook.com” addresses, but he stressed that the changes and...
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Conan O’Brien did not exactly fall out of the public’s consciousness. In fact, the late-night comedian’s quick and dirty dismissal from NBC last winter arguably evolved into the best break of his career. On November 8th, O’Brien will bring his unorthodox, irreverent show to TBS, bumping George Lopez to midnight as he claims the...
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To no one’s particular surprise, The Social Network dominated a slow weekend at the movies, grossing approximately $23 million from just over 2700 American theatres. Written by “West Wing” screenwoder Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, The Social Network stars a trio of cuties—Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake—in a historically accurate...
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Add “Farmville” to the rapidly-growing list of habit-forming amusements. Psychologists and other healthcare professionals have collected enough anecdotal and case-study data to inspire their warning: Excessive use of Farmville signals a need for intervention and treatment. Farmville, the innocent. sometimes educational and often wonderfully social farming game, best known as a Facebook application, joins...
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Facebook debuted its much-touted “Places” feature on Wednesday, sparking much discussion among the technorati and much fear at Foursquare and Gowalla. Using the Places API, Facebook users will be able to post their locations as phone-friendly geo-location aps allow. More importantly, Places will empower users to add messages, comments, and notes at each location....
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Remember the days of traditional feed aggregators, and all the time you spent scanning RSS feeds searching for something relevant? Thanks to Mike McCue and his brainchild, Flipboard, those days are gone. If you own an iPad and haven’t downloaded this app yet, I suggest you stop reading this for a moment, go grab...
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The counters clicked and the buzz intensified all week until Facebook passed the 500 million mark. Defying predictions and expectations, the Earth did not shift on its axis nor did anything especially spectacular happen on the website. People kept on posting their vacation pictures and random thoughts as usual. Historians did take time to...
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