Archive for maj, 2010

Facebook introduced more features for users to easily increase the privacy of their personal information, last week, following prolonged criticism of changes it made in April.
Despite those moves, it is getting new scrutiny around the changes. US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers sent a letter to the company on Friday asking it… »

Over the weekend we’ve received multiple reports about a new exploit that makes it appear as though a user “Liked” a page which they didn’t actually like. Numerous Pages have exploited the hack and it appears to have hit hundreds of thousands of users already on Pages like “The Prom Dress That Got This… »

According to BusinessWeek, Facebook access has been restored in Pakistan following a correspondence from Facebook wich assures that “no blasphemous material will be available to users in Pakistan.” In other words, Facebook will block access to groups, such as the “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” to those users who are based in Pakistan. If… »

Facebook, Involver, and the White House, have partnered on an application to have users automatically have their status updates honor a fallen soldier. The application also includes a feature which guides users to change their profile photo to the one pictured on the right. It’s part of a promotion for Remember.gov, a White… »

A new clickjacking worm is spreading through Facebook via the ‘Like’ feature. The attack, which is said to have hit hundreds of thousands of users, uses a combination of social engineering and clickjacking exploit makes it appear as if a user has “liked” a link.
The messages that are being used in the link text… »

Samme dag som regeringen i Bangladesh har valgt at blokere for Facebook, har man i Pakistan valgt at ophæve en tilsvarende… »

Frases Diarias continues its streak on this week’s list of fastest-growing apps on Facebook by monthly active users. The Spanish language phrase-of-the-day app has done incredibly well, considering that it now has about 6.5 million MAU — more than 10 percent of what’s probably a native-language Spanish speaking population of… »

Today is a day of reckoning for potentially millions of Facebook users; it’s Quit Facebook Day. The formal Facebook revolt was announced about two weeks ago amidst the growing debate over how Facebook uses and protects its users private information.
So far, just over 27,000 users have “committed to quit” Facebook, a figure that is… »

About a week ago, word started getting out that Facebook is beta testing a new “killer app” called Facebook Questions. For beta testers, the Questions feature appears in the left-hand column just below Events and Photos. It lets you ask and answer questions to and from your extended circle of friends.
A few days ago, Facebook… »

Samme dag som regeringen i Bangladesh har valgt at blokere for Facebook, har man i Pakistan valgt at ophæve en tilsvarende… »