Feb 05
We know Facebook ads are tracking us, we just don’t always know which ones. But that process is about to get more transparent because Facebook is going to start labeling the ads you see based on past behavior. More »
Feb 04
Facebook briefly dallied last year with the idea of letting us track our friends while on the road, only to be spooked off for reasons unknown. It might have developed enough nerve for another shot, according to Bloomberg. The social network is purportedly building a smartphone app that would locate nearby contacts and, unlike last year’s Find Friends Nearby, would run in the background where it’s supported — making it more useful, if not very comforting to privacy advocates. Not much else is mentioned besides features that would “help [Facebook] profit” from its growing mobile base. The company itself certainly isn’t saying anything official at this stage. If the app arrives in mid-March as claimed, however, Apple’s Find My Friends and Google’s Latitude won’t have our attention (and location) to themselves.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Facebook
Source: Bloomberg
Feb 04
Here’s something that sounds incredibly scary but in reality is probably just slightly scary and overblown: Bloomberg says Facebook is working on a new app that will follow you around via smartphone, reporting your moves to friends. Creepy? Convenient? Both? Neither? More »
Feb 04
Today is Facebook’s ninth birthday. Twenty five people were there for its arrival, and BuzzFeed FWD has tracked them down. More »
Feb 02
Falling in love can be complicated; falling in ‘like’, not so much. Either way, you’ve got various Facebook statuses to choose from (including the infamous “It’s Complicated”) and different ways to express how you feel – one of which is Yeople’s ‘I Like You’ pendant that shows the actual process of liking instead of just the icon itself.
That’s what makes this piece of jewelry so unique and oh-so-quirky.
When you give it as a present to someone, you’re not just letting them wear Facebook’s ‘Like’ icon you’re actually giving them a ‘like’ in real life. It makes an apt gift for Valentine’s when you’re still in the early stages of attraction and it might be awkward to give something with hearts and ‘I Love You’ stamped all over it.
The set comes with the in-the-process-of Liking pendant, plus a bracelet in the box. It retails for €22.50 (~$31 USD) on Yeople.
Feb 01
Facebook’s photo tag suggestions was temporarily suspended last year in order to allow for “technical improvements,” but it seems after one year of tweaking, the feature is now ready for prime time again as the company announced the feature has been re-enabled in a post published yesterday.
Tag Suggestions will once again allow users to “easily identify a friend in a photo and share that content with them,” although we’re sure there are some photos they absolutely would not want on their profile, no matter how hot you think you look in the picture.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Twitter Hacked! 250,000 Accounts At Risk, Google Possibly Adding Notification Center, Google Now To Chrome, 
Feb 01
At the 6th annual Crunchies, Mark Zuckerberg has been awarded “CEO of the Year”, beating out several other big names in the field, including runner-up Larry Page of Google. Zuckerberg has comes a long way in a short time, taking the idea of Facebook generated during his college years and making it into something that has had a large and lasting impact on both the techsphere and world as a whole.
The event took place at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, where 2500 people attended. Other contenders for the award included Twitter’s Dick Costolo, Yahoo!’s Marissa Mayer, and Evernote’s Phil Libin. The event was also streamed online, where a much larger audience watched. John Oliver, writer for The Daily Show, served as host.
The award has received a mixed response, with some feeling that Zuckerberg is well-deserving, having created a company that has had an undeniable impact on people and how they interact with each other through the digital medium. Others have been critical of the award, stating that Facebook had a rocky year and the award would have been better placed in different hands.
Facebook recently posted its Q4 2012 financial report, showing revenue that beat expectations but low profits. Still, the company has been making some big changes, and the number of users remains strong. What do you think of the award? Did Zuckerberg deserve it, or should it have gone to a different CEO? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
[via Tech Crunch]
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Jan 31
Pocket for iOS gets native sharing to Facebook, simpler option to delete articles
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Good news are in for those who are avid users of Read it Later Pocket on iOS, as the handy application’s been updated with some social tools and a few UI improvements. For starters, version 4.3 now allows readers to share content directly to Facebook (Sina Weibo, too) without ever having to leave the app, while a “Delete” option was added to the Archive button in order to make it easier for folks to trash any article. Pocket also announced it beefed up the text preferences in the article viewer by including an increased font size, as well as noting that it’s taken care of some known Evernote-related bugs, among others. The Pocket refresh can be downloaded now from the App Store link below, or, what’s likely the easier route, folks could just grab it straight from their iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Jan 31
Being tricked into submitting nude pictures of yourself online is a pretty disgusting crime, but to then use those photos to extort more nude photos from the same person is downright despicable. As outrageous as that story sounds, that is exactly what happened a few days ago according to a recent FBI release.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Eric Schmidt To Visit North Korea, Online retailers vary pricing based on user location and average income, 
Jan 31
Facebook has a new physical gift card that works like a regular gift card except you can use it at multiple retailers. But! It’s not a cash-equivalent Visa you can spend everywhere. It’s not even a stored value card that lets you spend the X-amount of money wherever you want within a Facebook-approved pool of retailers. It takes the saddest and lamest gift possible and makes it worse. More »
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