Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Via Mashable
July 7th, 2009 | by Stan Schroeder
Analytics company iStrategyLabs has examined the demographics stats from Facebook ()’s Social Ads platform, and they’ve reached some very interesting conclusions. Facebook’s userbase, as a whole, is getting much older very fast.
As you can see in the chart below, the overall number of users between 18 and [...]

Via the Calgary Sun
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy watchdog says Internet phenomenon Facebook breaches the law by keeping users’ personal information indefinitely — even after members close their accounts.
Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says the popular social networking site should hang on to the data only for as long as truly necessary.
In a report Thursday, Stoddart urged [...]

Via Mashable
by Josh Catone
According to new data from Inside Facebook, users over the age of 55 haven’t been as actively using Facebook over the past two months after triple digit growth in that demographic earlier this year. The report has resulted in speculation that while older people are trying Facebook, they’re not sticking around.
Between November [...]

Via the New York Times
By ALAN COWELL
Published: February 18, 2009

After a wave of protests from its users, the Facebook social networking site said on Wednesday that it would withdraw changes to its so-called terms of service concerning the data supplied by the tens of millions of people who use it.
The about-face was made known to [...]

Via Mashable

February 16, 2009 - 3:47 pm PDT - by Adam Ostrow

oday’s hoopla over changes to the Facebook Terms of Service have prompted a rare blog post from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the post, Zuckerberg falls short of apologizing for the changes, but rather, uses the opportunity [...]

Via Mashable
February 9, 2009 - 1:15 pm PDT - by Jennifer Van Grove
If you thought Tweetups were viral and picking up steam, you’ll never believe what one Facebook member was able to accomplish with a simple idea, a Facebook group, and proactive friends and friends of friends.
On January 15, T-Mobile filmed a [...]

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February 5, 2009 - 5:19 pm PDT - by Adam Ostrow
Facebook announced this afternoon that it’s joining the OpenID Foundation – an interesting move considering that Facebook Connect, the company’s identity platform for third-party websites, has so far looked like more of a competitor to OpenID than an ally.
In a blog [...]

Via The New York Times
By RACHEL DONADIO
Published: December 30, 2008
Thousands of users have joined fan pages devoted to top Mafia bosses on the social networking site Facebook, the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica reported Tuesday. A page devoted to Salvatore “Totò” Riina, the “boss of bosses,” who is serving 12 life sentences, has more than [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Erick Schonfeld on December 28, 2008
If you could search your friends’ thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be. Searching for restaurants, books, or movies, would turn up recommendations from people you actually know. If you are researching a trip to [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008
Facebook long ago passed MySpace in global visitors and time spent on the site, but now it appears to be gaining ground on Google.
A couple days ago, Facebook released some new statistics on user growth and engagement on the site. It now has more than [...]