Live Search comes to Facebook with custom search page
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... which includes a link to the Facebook blog, although Facebook doesn’t appear to have actually posted yet at the time of this writing. ...

Now on Facebook: The Zuckerblog?
Webware.com — ... Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rarely writes for the company blog, typically taking a byline only when the company is doing some damage control. But on Thursday, the young executive penned a post for the Facebook Blog about his recent trip to Europe, which included a speaking engagement at the Future of Web Apps conference in London. There's nothing ground-breaking in the post, titled "Hello from Madrid." But considering Zuckerberg is known for keeping to himself, a mild irony for the young fellow who facilitated the sharing of ...

Now on Facebook: The Zuckerblog?
The Social — ... Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rarely writes for the company blog, typically taking a byline only when the company is doing some damage control. But on Thursday, the young executive penned a post for the Facebook Blog about his recent trip to Europe, which included a speaking engagement at ...

Google Friend Connect? Confusing! Facebook Connect? Not Bad!
Technologizer — ... and Facebook Connect –are similar. ( Very similar.) So are the overarching goals, which is to let folks use login IDs they already have to sign into sites and manage friendships all around the Web. But the emphasis of the two services are quite different. And based on my wholly unscientific first impressions, Facebook Connect is more fully baked. ...

You Will Hardly Make Billions Blogging but You Can Be a Blogging Billionaire
Profy — ... Bill Marriott, Mariott hotels magnate Carl Icahn, financier and famous shareholder activist Donald Trump, actually masters 3 blogs for branding and promotion J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter Jerry Yang, Yahoo co-founder and soon-to-be former CEO Khalaf Al Habtoor, Dubai construction magnate Marc Cuban, internet billionaire recently accused of insider trading by SEC Mark Zukerberg, Facebook founder Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian metals magnate Oprah ...

The Semi-Human Techmeme: A Month Later
CenterNetworks — ... 56 O'Reilly Radar 55 +1 57 Epicenter 28 +29 58 Facebook Blog off top 100 59 Mercury News 93 ...

Facebook Marks Five Years
WebProNews Feed — ... Zuckerberg humbled Facebook is celebrating its 5th birthday today and the social networking site now boasts more than 150 million users globally. In a blog post , founder Mark Zuckerberg reflects on the last five years. "Facebook was founded in 2004 to give people the tools to engage and understand the world around them. We are glad and humbled that so many people are using Facebook in this way." To celebrate Facebook has created a " Thank You" gift, which is available in the Facebook Gift Shop. "In the spirit of celebrating connections between people, we encourage you to ...

Facebook Does an About Face
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... The original change was hammered hard in the blogosphere and traditional media outlets. As can happen with news of this nature its rapid spread and the building intensity was enough to have Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg post on his blog: ...

Facebook's Terms Of Service
WebProNews Feed — ... covers the event in their online edition. The original change was hammered hard in the blogosphere and traditional media outlets. As can happen with news of this nature its rapid spread and the building intensity was enough to have Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg post on his blog : Going forward, we ve decided to take a new approach towards developing our terms. We concluded that returning to our previous terms was the right thing for now. As I said yesterday, we think that a lot of the language in our terms is overly formal and protective so we don t plan to leave it ...

Facebook Returns To Previous Terms of Service Agreement
TechOrigins — ... has backtracked and replaced its new terms of service (TOS) agreement instituted Feb. 4 with the previous version. Mark Zuckerberg, the social network’s chief executive officer, announced the change in a blog post on the company’s site Tuesday night. ...

Tell Facebook How You Really Feel
Mashable! — ... Facebook says that “they won’t be responding to comments directly” on the blog, but it appears someone is at least monitoring it, as some of the more profane comments I saw earlier today seem to have been removed (see below). Nonetheless, there are hundreds of candid messages, both addressing the current Facebook turmoil over the ToS and additional features and changes that users would like to see. ...

Facebook Marketplace Goes Live With Oodle
WebProNews Feed — ... "Marketplace helps people buy and sell furniture and household items in a trusted environment," wrote Craig Donato, CEO of Oodle, on the Facebook Blog. ...

Facebook, Oodle Team Up For 'Social Classifieds'
The Channel Wire — ... for a piece of what's usually eBay's and Craigslist's action -- and it's got Facebook in its corner. Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its classified ads section, Marketplace, which is now powered by Oodle. "Late last year, Facebook turned to Oodle for its expertise in online classifieds, and Oodle has built an entirely new version of Marketplace focused on giving people a place to buy, sell or give things away to the people they know," said Oodle CEO Craig Donato, writing Tuesday in a Facebook blog post. According to Donato, if users had the previous version ...

Facebook, Oodle Team Up For 'Social Classifieds'
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — ... for a piece of what's usually eBay's and Craigslist's action -- and it's got Facebook in its corner. Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its classified ads section, Marketplace, which is now powered by Oodle. "Late last year, Facebook turned to Oodle for its expertise in online classifieds, and Oodle has built an entirely new version of Marketplace focused on giving people a place to buy, sell or give things away to the people they know," said Oodle CEO Craig Donato, writing Tuesday in a Facebook blog post. According to Donato, if users had the previous version ...

Facebook Rocks Its World
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — ... site as part of its redesign so that users have more control over which parts of their profile information they want exposed publicly. One of the many recent tweaks to the site has been to allow users to open parts of their profiles to a wider audience. Before the site's refresh, details about users were, by default, largely kept private except to those acknowledged as "friends." Only a thumbnail picture, common friends and friend lists were divulged. On the Facebook blog , Mark Slee, an engineer at Facebook, notes that, "None of your existing privacy settings have changed. ...

Facebook Rocks Its World
The Channel Wire — ... site as part of its redesign so that users have more control over which parts of their profile information they want exposed publicly. One of the many recent tweaks to the site has been to allow users to open parts of their profiles to a wider audience. Before the site's refresh, details about users were, by default, largely kept private except to those acknowledged as "friends." Only a thumbnail picture, common friends and friend lists were divulged. On the Facebook blog , Mark Slee, an engineer at Facebook, notes that, "None of your existing privacy settings have changed. ...

Facebook Responds To Users Complaints
WebProNews Feed — ... "Since we launched Facebook's home page design, we've received thousands of emails, Wall posts and comments from you along with direct feedback from all of our friends and family," said Christopher Cox, Facebook's director of product in a blog post. ...

Facebook embraces Twitter-like live updates
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... Revealed on Facebook's official blog, the new feature means that instead of having to constantly refresh your homepage to see if someone has messaged you, the page will automatically update in real-time. ...

OpenID comes to Facebook, at last
Webware.com — ... "We've always let our users express their real world connections," a post on the Facebook blog read. "From the beginning, Facebook users could use their college and workplace identities to establish real world networks. Now, they can use open standards to establish their identities on Facebook." ...

Facebook: Slow and Unresponsive, Again?
Mashable! — ... Facebook has sometimes had rough patches when it comes to performance, but this last one seems to last longer than usual. According to anecdotal evidence, users with lots of friends and applications seem to be affected the most, many of them completely unable to access their profiles (some claim it’s been that way for over a week). Personally, I have under 100 friends and I have been able to open my profile, but it has been painfully slow at times. Facebook’s official blog and Twitter has nothing on the subject. ...

As Events Unfold In Iran, Facebook And Google Translate Quickly Add Persian
TechCrunch — ... In response to the events surrounding the Iranian election last week, Google and Facebook have both added Persian to their capabilities. The Persian version of Facebook will be available starting tonight. Facebook says that a blog post will be published announcing the new version here. ...

Facebook launches Persian version for Iranian activists
VentureBeat — ... An early draft of the blog post is below, which will be going live on the Facebook Blog later this evening at http://blog.facebook.com. If you’re interested in learning more about Facebook’s translation application and the new Persian language site, please send your inquiry to press@facebook.com. ...

Facebook: Want To Keep That Update Private? Go Ahead
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — Facebook can cause problems for professionals who want to keep in touch with friends while still connecting with current or future employers. Unflattering photos, updates and wall posts on Facebook can be harmful to future job prospects and embarrassing to individuals. That's why Facebook, the massively popular social network, is updating its privacy features, allowing users to choose who sees specific updates. Writing in a Facebook blog post yesterday , Olaoluwa Okelola, an employee of Facebook, laid out the changes that are coming to the Publisher feature. Publisher is ...

Facebook: Want To Keep That Update Private? Go Ahead
The Channel Wire — Facebook can cause problems for professionals who want to keep in touch with friends while still connecting with current or future employers. Unflattering photos, updates and wall posts on Facebook can be harmful to future job prospects and embarrassing to individuals. That's why Facebook, the massively popular social network, is updating its privacy features, allowing users to choose who sees specific updates. Writing in a Facebook blog post yesterday , Olaoluwa Okelola, an employee of Facebook, laid out the changes that are coming to the Publisher feature. Publisher is ...

How Charities Are #FindingTheGood With Facebook Pages
Mashable! — ... Facebook is continually tweaking Pages and adding lots of little advancements, so if you’re maintaining a Page, you should definitely be following the official Facebook blog. One of the more recent features is that each tab now has a unique URL, so you can point users to different “pages” of your Page (like a regular website) and determine what you want the default section to be for Fans and non-Fans. ...

Facebook Wants You! (To Over-Share)
Fast Company - Technology — ... Gone will be geographical networks (eg, New York), because as privacy scion at Facebook Chris Kelly says, they don't really allow you to choose "exactly the audience with whom [you] wish to share." To the same effect, Facebook has eliminated some overlapping controls. They emphasize that none of these changes will give any more of your info away to advertisers. ...

Facebook changes its privacy settings again
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... In a blog post titled 'Improving Sharing Through Control, Simplicity and Connection', Chris Kelly from Facebook outlines the new options, stating that: ...

Facebook Goes Tag Nuts
Inc.com — ... In yet another insidious move to get Facebook users to inadvertantly compromise their own privacy, Facebook has added a new tagging feature. ...

Friend tagging comes to Facebook
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... "One of the most popular features on Facebook is tagging, which gives you the ability to identify and reference people in photos, videos and notes," says Software Engineer Tom on the Facebook blog. ...

Facebook Lite Goes Live For The Bandwidth-Constrained
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — ... Some observers have said Facebook Lite is somewhat similar to Facebook Mobile, which has attracted 65 million active users since its 2006 launch. But some wags have also noted that Facebook Lite is not unlike Twitter, that other social networking Web site. Thursday Facebook also added the ability to tag friends and groups with status updates and other posts as they now tag friends to identify them in photos, videos and notes. Facebook announced the addition in a blog post Thursday.

Facebook Lets You Log In with Vanity URLs
AppScout — ... The e-mail address log-in is still enabled on the site, for those who really like typing the @ sign into fields. For more information (though not that much more), check out the official Facebook blog. ...

Sage Bionetworks, Biology’s Open Source Spark, Snags “Major” Donation from Quintiles
Xconomy — ... and Facebook have done, then Sage hopes biologists might be able to speed up the pace of discovery of more effective drugs, just like open-source computing can create better software. ...

Facebook Wins $711 Million From Spammer
Silicon Alley Insider — ... , to show up with a check, either. "While we don't expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will act as a continued deterrent," Facebook said on its blog . This is not the first time Wallace has been on the wrong end of an enormous judgment. MySpace was awarded $230 million from Wallace and his partner in a suit also brought under federal anti-spam law, the ...