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Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Location
Facebook's goal for the new Places feature may be even more ambitious than we realized. Facebook wants the central platform for location data across all Web services, a company spokesman said today at a New York Times developer…
September 3 2010, 11:00am | Comments
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Zuckerberg: Facebook Photos Used 5 Or 6 Times More Than Competitors — Combined
Yesterday, Facebook held a developer’s garage event at their headquarters in Palo Alto. To kick things off, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to talk a bit about the history of Facebook. Notably, he focused on Facebook Photos…
August 28 2010, 12:10pm | Comments
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Privacy is Hard Because People Change Their Minds
If there’s one issue that unites major Internet giants like Google and Facebook, it’s privacy. Google tries to offer a new service with Buzz, and triggers a series of privacy land mines; Facebook tries to offer new services…
August 28 2010, 9:24am | Comments
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Facebook’s “Platmobile” Team Working On Eliminating Mobile Password Entry
Earlier this evening, Facebook held a developer’s garage event at their headquarters — sort of like a State of the Union for third-party developers. Notably, they announced a new partnership with Y Combinator that has the goal of…
August 27 2010, 12:35pm | Comments
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Guess Who Is Trying To Trademark The Word “Face”? (And Guess Who Is Trying To Stop It?)
When it comes to trademarks, Facebook is proving to be a bully. It is going after Teachbook in court for using a similar name, and already forced Placebook to change its name. But that is only half the…
August 27 2010, 10:57am | Comments
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Okay, Now Facebook Has Officially Made It. They Have A Turkish Music Video
Facebook is big — massive, really. But I don’t care if a social network has 100 million users, 500 million users, or a billion users — and I don’t care if there’s a major Hollywood movie coming out…
August 26 2010, 12:31pm | Comments
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You Can Block Any Facebook User Except Mark Zuckerberg
The title of this post kind of says it all. As pointed out by blockzuck.com, you can block anyone on Facebook except CEO Mark Zuckerberg. If you try to do it (we did), you’ll get a message saying…
August 23 2010, 6:17am | Comments
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The Confusing Stages Of Opting Into Facebook Places
Earlier today we had a bit of a fire-drill at TechCrunch Headquarters. As I checked into TCHQ on Facebook Places, I also tagged a few of my coworkers, fully expecting their checkins to be delayed until they actually…
August 20 2010, 1:16pm | Comments
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How To Disable Facebook Places
Facebook Places, the new location check-in feature that will begin rolling out to users across the U.S. today, was introduced last night. To our surprise, the new feature was set to "friends only" by default, but two words…
August 20 2010, 2:32am | Comments
