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Pa. retirees join a new senior class on Facebook...who are all in Massachusetts. "I don't expect to see them most of the time," Hanson said. "But with Facebook, I get to talk to them on a day-to-day basis." "We kept in touch over the summer, but I didn't know she had a Facebook... In this article: Facebook and Pennsylvania |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Business | 10 hours ago
Facebook's value rises to 9.5bn
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AppScout | 10 hours ago
Facebook Adopts Updated Privacy Policy
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BBC News | 16 hours ago
Facebook acts on follower trade
Facebook has an estimated 250million users worldwide Facebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site. It said it would take the action against marketing firm USocial unless it...
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CNET News.com | 1 day ago
Facebook becomes third most popular video site
...in October that easily beat out Bing, Yahoo, and several other online sites. In September, Facebook was ranked tenth in total streams. In October, Facebook placed second in total number of unique viewers: over 31.5 million. YouTube had...
In this article: YouTube, MySpace, Hulu, Bing, CNET, and Yahoo
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Reuters | 2 days ago
UPDATE 1-Salesforce offers Facebook-like tool to companies
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The Register | 2 days ago
Facebook publishes revised privacy policy
...back in July More information on the revised policy can be found on the site governance section of Facebook's website here. In related news, Facebook came under fire on Wednesday over allegations it had failed to implement child safety...
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Qlipso Brings Avatars, Video Chat, and Facebook Connect To Virtual Rooms
...on the Web is going from a solo affair to a shared experience. We are seeing this in everything from CNN live news videos enabled with Facebook chat to Meebo Rooms and Tiny Chat. Today, a new startup from Los Angeles called Qlipso is...
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washingtonpost.com | 3 days ago
Seesmic Saves Time for Users of Both Facebook and Twitter
Alternatively, complete separation would also be nice--such as a Home pane that has only Twitter and a Facebook pane that has only Facebook. Seesmic is instead an uncomfortable integration of the two. Seesmic is also available in-browser...
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CNET News.com | 3 days ago
Facebook adopts new privacy policy
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AP Online | 3 days ago
Vietnam Internet users fear Facebook blackout
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Description from Wikipedia:
Facebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.
The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 300 million active users worldwide.
Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran.
It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.
Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.
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