Archive for september, 2010

So not only are we whiling away our work days stalking high school sweethearts and playing FarmVille on Facebook, we’re now spending copious amounts of time watching video there as well. In fact, according to the comScore Video Metrix, Facebook was the second most popular online video content property last month.
In August, Facebook beat out… »

An Australian hairdresser has won compensation for wrongful dismissal after losing her job for making unflattering remarks about her employer on Facebook.

The Australian newspaper reports on the case of Sally-Anne Fitzgerald from Melbourne, who was fired from her job at Escape Hair Design in February this year.
She reportedly posted this status update on Facebook: ”Xmas ‘bonus’… »

Recently, we launched the Inside Network Job Board – dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem.
Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at CafeMom, Fuel Industries, OneRecovery, Storm8, Toy Studio, and Electronic… »

Facebook has rolled out its location service Places to France and Australia. The launch in both nations this week may signal an acceleration of the roll out. Facebook appears to be giving access to countries with a large Facebook audience, and at least some iPhone market penetration. The two nations join… »

comScore just released its latest online video data in the U.S. for the month of August; showing that viewership remained steady since the previous month. According to comScore, 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in August for an average of 14.3 hours per viewer (178 million users watched online video in July… »

Last night Facebook pushed out a change to the platform which essentially broke all iFrame applications in Safari and Firefox browsers. It has been over 16 hours and developers are still waiting on a fix. In fact over 5,200 developers have voted up a bug highlighting the issue.

While Facebook has acknowledged the bug,… »

Facebook Places has gone live in France and Italy, the day after launching in Australia.

An Italian blogger reported on the local launch of Facebook’s location check-in service Places, which was done without any official announcement. Several AllFacebook.com readers have reported that Facebook Places is also live in France. I’ve reached out to Facebook and they’ve… »

Want to cancel that friend request you just sent on Facebook? If you accidentally requested someone as a friend or no longer want to connect with someone on Facebook, you can now cancel those requests thanks to a new feature added by Facebook.

How To Cancel A Friend Request On Facebook
Whether you are canceling the… »

Irish developer BetaPond has released two applications which integrate Facebook Places. LoyaltyBuilder is a branded multi-venue checkin leaderboard tab application which helps businesses encourage users to check in to specific Places. I Spy Places is a simple Places dashboard which lets users see a map and list of check-ins by them or… »

Facebook is looking for people to fill positions in content strategy, research, communication, commerce, intellectual property, a few positions in Latin America, online sales and market solutions, according to listings recently added to the company’s Careers page this week.
A couple Software Engineering positions point to Facebook’s growing Credits and e-commerce businesses. The Commerce Infrastructure… »