Facebook’s new Timeline feature recently went live for everyone – well, almost everyone. The social network shipped its shinny new scrapbook feature without support for Internet Explorer 7.
“IE7 users visiting profile pages that would otherwise be Timeline-enabled are presented …
Politicos have been warming to social media since the 2008 Obama campaign, and 2011 saw more online activity than ever before from U.S. government leaders.
On Facebook specifically, the past year has brought us quite a few memorable highlights — …
New evidence suggests that Facebook is inching closer and closer to overthrowing Google as the most-visited web brand in the U.S.
Facebook’s unique U.S. visitor count has increased by 29.5 percent since Oct. 2009, according to Nielsen data shared exclusively …
Green may be the color of money, but Wall Street bankers are only seeing blue — Facebook blue, that is.
The social network is poised to file its papers to become a public company in early 2012 — raising $10 …
Update: Facebook has made the download link available in the Help Center.
Facebook is busy perfecting a Messenger desktop application for Windows that compacts the best of Facebook — chat, ticker and notifications — into an always-accessible, dock-able miniature …
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What is Foursquare? The answer is far more complex than it should be. The startup’s purpose in life is so muddled that it now finds itself in the midst of a self-imposed identity crisis that could cause it to fall …
Facebook may be growing in popularity, but Google is still the web brand to beat.
In 2011, an average 153.4 million people in the U.S. visited Google sites each month, making the search giant the most-visited U.S. web brand of …
The story of your life, as told through your Facebook updates and photos, will be showing on an iPad near you come late January, according to a source.
The social network is planning to release a new version of Facebook …
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The predictions I made for 2011 turned out pretty well, since I framed things like any good fortune teller or horoscope would have done. I was vague enough to allow flexibility but detailed enough to sound spot on. I would …
Hacker collective Anonymous claims to have stolen credit card data and other sensitive details from U.S. security think tank Stratfor, with plans to donate $1 million in stolen cash to charity.
Austin, Tex.-based Stratfor is a research group that posts …
Facebook announced Thursday evening that it has made updates to its platform to improve game usage and discovery of new apps.
The social network said it made changes to the platform based on tests that showed it could drive re-engagement …
Don’t tell Google, but the top search term and the most-visited website of 2011 were one in the same: Facebook.
Inquiring minds asked about the world’s largest social network so much that Facebook accounted for 3.10 percent of all U.S. …
After a thorough audit from the Irish government, Facebook has stepped forward with a statement on how it could have handled some privacy issues a little bit better.
While the company said the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner …
To the dismay of bosses and spouses everywhere, Facebook, by way of third-party social games, offered social networkers a daily distraction they could not go without in 2011. But no game commanded more attention or unrequited love than Disney Playdom’s …
It may not have the ring of Beverly Hills, 90210, but Menlo Park, 94025 is arguably the most elite zip code in the nation now that Facebook has moved to town.
As of Monday, the world’s largest social network is …
Social games company Zynga’s stock ended its second day of trading on the Nasdaq exchange down nearly 5 percent, a signal of turbulent times ahead for the value of the company.
Zynga’s stock closed on Friday at $9.50 a share, …
Google+ will add a few major improvements to its service over the next few days, including new activity stream controls, welcome changes to business Pages, better notifications and a dramatically better photo experience, the company announced today.
Despite contrary claims …
Education must evolve as curriculum changes, and new subject information becomes available. But it also must change to adopt the Web and accept that students are using it for just about everything.
Students learn in totally different ways now that …
If Facebook had a Timeline, today it would read, “became friends with iPhone.” The company released an update to the application today, supporting Timeline, along with a couple new improvements.
The update, 4.1, allows people to view Timelines like they …
Facebook‘s Android app passed the iPhone in daily active users today, but is still trailing behind when it comes to monthly activity.
According to analytics reports by AppData, the Android application had 58.3 million daily active users on December 17, …
