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Facebook Denies Testing Places In The UK – But It Looks Close

Is Facebook testing its location based service Places for imminent rollout in the UK? Notes on Twitter started to surface over the weekend indicating that might be the case. And as you can see from this screengrab from @kierondonoghue on Saturday, it did work for a short time. However, we’ve checked with Twitter’s official spokespeople… »

Facebook, Relationships And “Catfish”: It’s Complicated

If ever a trailer did not depict what a movie is actually about it’s this trailer for Universal Pictures’ “Catfish”, a movie about Facebook the subject matter of which could not be further from that other movie about Facebook. I’d like to use this sentence to say “Spoiler Alert” about fifteen times because the next… »

Facebook, Relationships And “Catfish”: It’s Complicated

If ever a trailer did not depict what a movie is actually about it’s this trailer for Universal Pictures’ “Catfish”, a movie about Facebook the subject matter of which could not be further from that other movie about Facebook. I’d like to use this sentence to say “Spoiler Alert” about fifteen times because the next… »

PlacePop Facebook App Brings Places Check-Ins Feed To The Web Interface

PlacePop, maker of a digital loyalty card iPhone app, released a Facebook app this week for monitoring activity in Facebook’s location product Places. It includes a Places activity feed for viewing the recent check-ins by your friends, a feature included in the touch.facebook.com and Facebook for iPhone versions of Places,… »

PlacePop Facebook App Brings Places Check-Ins Feed To The Web Interface

PlacePop, maker of a digital loyalty card iPhone app, released a Facebook app this week for monitoring activity in Facebook’s location product Places. It includes a Places activity feed for viewing the recent check-ins by your friends, a feature included in the touch.facebook.com and Facebook for iPhone versions of Places,… »

Ads API Profile: Marin Software Provides Audience Segmentation Across Facebook and Paid Search

Facebook’s performance advertising system lets buyers target users based on identity, location, interests, and Facebook connections, but it doesn’t provide the control to utilize these targeting parameters on a large scale. To allow companies to build more powerful tools for designing and managing ads, Facebook released an Ads API last… »

Apple to Launch Social Networks for Music and Games — What Are Its Bigger Social Ambitions?

As part of a series of announcements today at a press event in San Francisco, Apple made clear that it is planning to build its own social networking features. But how big are its social aspirations? The new version of Apple’s iOS software, 4.1, is due out next week, and it will include the Game Center,… »

Huge Facebook Places Backlash Spreads Through Status Updates

Facebook Places launched earlier this month amid great fanfare, but right now it’s looking like fear and confusion over privacy concerns could derail the takeoff of the service.

I don’t know about you but I haven’t seen any  of my friends checking into locations via Places. Instead I’m seeing a lot of status updates warning people… »

What Hotel Towels Can Teach You About Facebook Fans

Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to grow as fast as that one Facebook Page which is adding thousands of fans a day with little effort? The secret isn’t actually much of a secret. It’s called “social proof”. According to this theory, people will… »

Anna Chapman Exposes Herself On Facebook [Video]

Apparently spying on the U.S. pays off big time. Anna Chapman has become well known as the bombshell spy who spied on the U.S. for Russia. Now she’s facing a lawsuit for posting the sexually suggestive photos on Facebook, as the images (posted below) were being held under wraps until later this year.

Apparently… »