We’ve listened to 1.5 billion songs on Facebook already

Since the launch of Facebook’s social music tools, Facebook users have listened to songs on the social network 1.5 billion times.

That’s around two songs each for Facebook’s roughly 750 million users.

Facebook announced the addition of streaming music to …

Round-up: 7 drastic Facebook changes you will probably hate

Facebook’s annual developer conference was packed with news about big changes coming to the social network.

And if past history is any guide, most of you are probably going to be outraged by the changes, at least at first.

According …

The Unnamed Writer’s Room Video: f8 or h8? (video)

Facebook was the talk of the day with chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s f8 conference keynote speech and the announcement of many new features being added to the Facebook platform.

Those features included the new Timeline, a history of your activity …

Analysis: Facebook makes a move to capture your whole life

Facebook made its power move to capture everything about your life today. In a keynote speech at Facebook’s f8 developer conference today, Facebook CEO executive Mark Zuckerberg talked about how to make the social network indispensable to the recording of …

Netflix announces Facebook integration for Canada, Latin America — U.S. will have to wait

Netflix users in Canada and Latin America will soon be able to see what streaming videos their Facebook friends have been watching, but those of us in the U.S. will have to wait a bit longer due to a 1980s …

Facebook enables new real-time social interactions for games

Facebook’s next-generation Open Graph platform will deliver a bounty of new features for social games, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said today at the company’s f8 event.

“Social games are killing it on Facebook,” Zuckerberg said, explaining that games are still …

Facebook’s new Open Graph enables a wave of apps including joint music listening

An update to the Facebook’s Open Graph platform will allow people to express themselves in new ways and will let developers create a new class of app, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning. Friends can use these apps to …

Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook’s big changes, including all new Profiles

Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled some huge changes to the social network and its platform at f8, Facebook’s developer conference.

The tagline for today’s event is “Read. Watch. Listen,” which foreshadows the media features and content consumption and sharing …

Dylan’s Desk: Facebook approaches a billion customers

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Facebook to launch music service at f8

Social networking site Facebook will launch its long-rumored music service at its annual developer conference f8 this year, according to a report by CNBC.

Facebook will not actually host its own music but will partner with other services to stream …

Facebook schedules f8 conference for Sept. 22

Facebook has scheduled its f8 conference for Sept. 22 in San Francisco. The all-day event is where the company’s engineers and product teams will highlight “new tools along with best practices for developers and partners building the next generation of …