Facebook now has over 500 million users worldwide – yes, that’s half a billion users. So the odds of some of those users being in close proximity to your business are good. No wait – the odds are really good… so good that you need to take the time to claim your business location like, […]
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Blackberry users have something to be really excited about today regarding the Facebook for Blackberry application. Facebook has just released the “Facebook Places for Blackberry” feature. Now you can start “checking in” to the places you visit and let your friends know where you are, where you are shopping, or where you’re eating, etc… For […]
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Facebook Goes Green
Facebook is working hard to find ways to make their massive data center network more energy efficient. Facebook’s social network is generating 65 billion page views per month, and that takes a lot of server power to handle. And with data centers spread throughout the United States, Facebook is showing concerns for the environment by […]
The casual coffee shop visitor who whips out his or her laptop to enjoy some free Wi-Fi service has more reason to be concerned these days.
Developer Eric Butler has produced a web browser add-on called Firesheep that makes viewing and using people’s private, sensitive information over wireless networks easy for even complete novices.
Butler reportedly had good intentions in creating this very dangerous tool. Because of its ease of use, Firesheep’s potential for doing damage is huge. Butler explains that “it’s extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) vulnerable.” Because of the widespread exploitation of such security holes, Butler contends that he created Firesheep “to demonstrate just how serious this problem is.”
At around 10:00pm EST, Facebook announced via Twitter that the Facebook chat function would go down site wide. The reason for the outage, as stated by Facebook, was to make improvements. Here’s what the tweet said from Facebook: Chat will be unavailable briefly starting at about 11 p.m. PDT tonight as we make improvements. Sorry […]
Facebook is reporting delays in the updating of Facebook Fan Page Insights. Insights are the stats that are associated with the traffic and demographics of your Facebook Fan Page. Here’s what was reported about 2 hours ago from Facebook: There are some data delay in Insights right now and the data is only available until […]
You might not realize this, but Facebook is accessed monthly by 200 million users worldwide via mobile devices. This is quite unprecedented and it makes Facebook one of the most popular mobile applications in the world – regardless of what device is being measured. Because of the role mobility plays with Facebook users, the Facebook […]