Facebook “Definitely” Raising Capital This Year; Google Considered Acquisition
techcrunch.com 3/28/2009 — Last October we wrote about how Facebook’s breakaway growth combined with a declining advertising market was forcing the company back to the capital markets . The company has been all over the place with on record comments about fundraising ...

Exclusive: Discussing the Future of Facebook with CEO Mark Zuckerberg
insidefacebook.com 6/4/2009 — There’s a lot happening at Facebook these days. From advertising to payments, search to mobile, platform to privacy, Facebook has teams working on a spectrum of products to serve the company’s 200 million active users - 100 million of ...

Facebook announces changes, new homepage
obsessable.com 3/4/2009 — Your homepage will soon feature a live stream of your friends' updates, with filters to let you customize what news is displayed. Facebook announced today the changes it plans on implementing to its site in the coming year, focusing more on sharing information within your friend network, ...

Facebook Mess Is Coming: You Now Have To Talk To Your Friends not To Be Unfriended
profy.com 12/25/2008 — It looks like on the lazy news days during this holiday season many of the mainstream publications have decided that it would be a good idea to discuss the trends in social networking and the peculiarities of behavior of many of us - those who are ...

Facebook Redesigns, Puts Emphasis on Sharing
blog.wired.com 3/4/2009 — Facebook has announced a completely redesigned homepage which significantly changes the focus of the site. Along with the new look, which offers much more organized, easy to digest updates from your friends, there are also some new features that ...

NetworkedBlogs App on Facebook Adding 500 New Blogs a Day
readwriteweb.com 2/4/2009 — Blog reading on Facebook is becoming a popular activity. One of the top applications for following blogs through the social networking site is NetworkedBlogs , an app which launched in June bringing the blog community to the Facebook platform. Half ...

Opening Up Facebook Status, Notes, Links, and Video to Facebook Platform
developers.facebook.com 2/7/2009 — We're launching several new APIs for Facebook Platform today. These new interfaces open up access t...

Democracy coming to Facebook Terms of Service
obsessable.com 2/27/2009 — Users will be able to vote on controversial changes before they go into effect, from now on. Still working damage control from the internet-wide outcry against its recently-modified Terms of Service , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new rules ...

Facebook Quietly Pulls Polls
techcrunch.com 1/5/2009 — We got a tip that Facebook Polls, the social networking service’s business tool that enabled anyone to create a paid poll targetting a pre-defined group of users, is no longer available. The link that used to redirect to the service is now ...

Facebook Connect Launches for the iPhone
realtechnews.com 3/15/2009 — By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews Facebook Connect for iPhone was announced last July, and on Saturday at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference in Austin, TX, they finally launched it. It only took eight months and nearly ...

25 Things Facebook Couldn't Keep Secret In Court — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2/12/2009
Redacted portions of a PDF transcript were revealed from a court hearing to determine Facebook's settlement with ConnectU.

Pew analyzes the Twitterati, or not — CNET News.com 2/13/2009
The research firm has put out some numbers on Twitter usage! But here's the catch: It counts people who update Facebook or MySpace statuses as "Twitter users," too.

How Do You Measure Success On Social Media? — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2/13/2009
I got active on social media in 2007, when I became a Twitter addict, and continued all through last year, expanding my social media empire onto LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Tumblr, and more. But recently, I've hit a bit of a wall. It's ...

Facebook gets devalued — Latest from Computerworld 2/13/2009
Well, we finally know what Facebook is really worth -- or, at least, what Facebook thinks it is worth: about US$3.7 billion. That would be $11 billion less than Microsoft thinks Facebook is worth, give or take a few hundred million.  ...

Facebook Looks To Expand Mobile Presence — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2/13/2009
The social network may be seeking help from Motorola, Nokia, and Palm to increase integration of its site on mobile phones.