Archive for November, 2007

Facebook Gives Users More Control Over New Ad System After Complaints

Friday, November 30th, 2007

ABC News - Seeking to keep the peace in its popular online hangout, Facebook Inc. has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked privacy complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other companies. Under the changes outlined late Thursday >>> Read more Bowdoin Orient - ...

MoveOn Launches Privacy Campaign Against Facebook Social Ads

Friday, November 30th, 2007

MarketingVOX - Calling Facebook's new Social Ads strategy an invasion of privacy, MoveOn.org is asking Facebook members to sign a petition against the social network's new ad plan. Specifically, MoveOn and its constituents are reacting to a new feature, implemented >>> Read more TechWhack News - Facebook ...

Cassidy: You’ve got a friend in Facebook

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Silicon Valley - Facebook seemed like a good idea at the time. All the kids were doing it. At least all the cool kids and if I wanted to be cool I'd better get on it. So I created my social networking persona. The idea was to use Facebook for ...

Singing about life’s last call

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Canada.com - Those followers spread the word on Facebook and MySpace, and through flyering. He avoids hotels for most of the tour, staying on couches. He played a series of living room shows, booked by fans who opened their houses for $10 a head in mid-date cities ...

BabyMoods(TM) Gives Birth to Three New Parenting Applications on

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Forbes - BabyMoods(TM), dedicated to the needs and interests of new and expectant parents, has launched three exciting new free-to-download applications on Facebook. Within the first week over 3000 people experienced the ease with which they could install and >>> Read more 680 News - Toronto - ...

coComment Offers Facebook Application to Help Drive Traffic for

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Forbes - SAN FRANCISCO and GENEVA, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, coComment, the leading platform for managing online conversations, announced it will offer its first two Facebook applications, for both blog and site owners and individual users. The coComment >>> Read more This is London - A ...

Facebook Unveils New Ad System

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Wall Street Journal - Confirming weeks of speculation, Facebook Inc. announced a new advertising system that allows marketers to target their messages based on the interests of the social-networking site's millions of users. The new system, called Facebook Ads, will let >>> Read more Globe and Mail ...

The go-to girl for fashion tips social shopping sites

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

San Francisco Gate - Many online shopping sites are introducing widgets that let users publish their wish list or shopping list on their blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. But it's still early in the game. Other shopping tools such as coupon >>> ...

Firefox 3 Beta answers some questions, raises others

Monday, November 26th, 2007

ITnews - Google questions Google answers Virtualisation raises serious business questions EU s Microsoft verdict raises questions Facebook source code leak raises security questions Game on for Halo 3 beta The Firefox 3 Beta 1 wins points for improved >>> Read more Reuters - Brussels' ...

Just forget all the muss, your photos will upload themselves

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - If you use a photo sharing site like Shutterfly , Flickr or Facebook , the card will send photos over the Internet to Eye-Fi, which then formats them for the site you use. It also automates sign-in and passwords so that your photos seem to appear ...