Scrabulous Returns To Facebook, As Wordscraper (Friday 01st of August 2008 09:00:01 AM)
Porcupine8 writes "Good news for those that have had a hole in their heart (and Facebook
profile) since Hasbro forced Facebook to remove Scrabulous over copyright and report issues.
The creators of Scrabulous have wasted no time in tweaking the game and ...
(more)Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead (Wednesday 30th of July 2008 06:30:01 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "Sometime this morning, Facebook shut down Scrabulous to red white and blue
and Canadian users. Scrabulous, we hardly knew ye." This is sadly unsurprising, now that
Hasbro's finally taken legal action against the developers, after quite ...
(more)Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous (Friday 25th of July 2008 01:30:02 AM)
Dekortage writes "As today's lawsuit indicates, Hasbro has outwardly had enough of Scrabulous,
the online word game remarkably similar to Scrabble. Filed in New York, Hasbro's suit is
against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, brothers from Kolkata, India, and ...
(more)Social Networking Sites Becoming Useful For Lawyers (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)
Chareverie writes "With how the subject tip footing has become, social lead sites such as
Facebook and MySpace have become a tool for crime solvers, employers, and now, lawyers. Two
weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunk driving case, the college ...
(more)Facebook Addiction? ...or Stalking? (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:03:44 AM)
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as Jamie Lynn The New Money Twinz as themselves (Get their ringtones ...
(more)Canadian Group Files Facebook Privacy Complaint (Monday 02nd of June 2008 06:10:51 PM)
Bergkamp writes "A Canadian public policy group filed a grievance enactment Facebook with 22
separate violations of a Canadian personal lore armament law. The Canadian hyperspace Policy
and Public Interest Clinic, based at the teaching hospital of Ottawa, ...
(more)Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan (Friday 09th of May 2008 06:00:04 PM)
Facebook has reached an agreement with the tribunal general of 49 states and the precinct of
america to develop and enhance controls to protect minors from inappropriate content. This
follows a similar commitment from MySpace several months ago. The lone ...
(more)The State Of Grayware On the PC (Thursday 24th of April 2008 09:15:08 PM)
Checkers and Pogo writes "Grayware inhabits a murky area between pure malware and useful apps,
and it's a growing problem. 38.1% of all malicious PC windows falls into the grayware category,
and titular 'grayware 2.0' is targeting social-networking sites. ...
(more)British Police Use Facebook to Gather Evidence (Sunday 20th of April 2008 05:55:13 PM)
Amy Bennett writes "Move over police scanner and most-wanted poster. The Greater Manchester
Police force has created a Facebook application to collect leads for investigations. The
application delivers a real-time feed of police news and appeals for information. ...
(more)Weekend update (Saturday 12th of April 2008 09:04:00 AM)
Blogwise it's been a slow week, so it's about time I came up with a new entry. Nothing new in
my country that's worth mentioning. In my private life there were no more exploding lights, nor
anything else worth mentioning. Oh yeah, I left MySpace... ...
(more)Ringside Networks To Unveil Social App Server (Tuesday 25th of March 2008 03:45:08 AM)
EWeekPete writes "Ringside intelligent retrieval tomorrow will formally launch as a company and
also launch what it calls the first open-source social application server that seamlessly
integrates Facebook applications with any Web site. The Ringside ...
(more)Facebook A Black Hole For Personal Info (Wednesday 13th of February 2008 12:30:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times has an article on how Facebook is so sticky it is nearly
useless to get loose. While the Web site offers users the option to deactivate their accounts,
Facebook servers keep copies of the science in those business ...
(more)Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description (Monday 14th of January 2008 02:00:17 PM)
Flutterecho writes "A sophomore at Valdosta State teaching hospital was expelled after
criticizing his university's plan to build two new parking garages with student fees. In a
letter apparently slipped under his dorm room door, Ronald Zaccari, the university's ...
(more)Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org (Wednesday 09th of January 2008 09:30:07 AM)
Technirvana sends us to ReadWriteWeb for the scoop on the announcement this morning that
representatives from Google and Facebook are joining the DataPortability Workgroup. Quoting:
"The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era in which ...
(more)Social Sites Offer 'New' Way To Experience Presidential Debates (Monday 07th of January 2008 06:15:06 AM)
News.com notes that the social sites have been burning up in the wake of the debates, as users
create more content than it's possible to follow. Facebook specifically set up an area for
debate viewers to post messages and take surveys during the events. ...
(more)The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? (Friday 09th of November 2007 10:15:03 PM)
Privacyprof writes "Facebook lately announced a new advertising scheme called 'Social Ads.'
Instead of using celebrities to hawk products, it will use moving picture show of Facebook
users. Facebook might be entering into another privacy debacle. The ...
(more)Breaking Open Facebook With FOSS (Wednesday 31st of October 2007 11:30:14 AM)
NewsCloud writes "Since last December, Facebook has grown from 12 to 47 million users and
third-party developers have launched more than 6,000 applications with its API. While privacy
advocates have been concerned about Google for the past several years, ...
(more)Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook (Thursday 25th of October 2007 06:00:04 AM)
Nrbelex writes to mention The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft has beat out Google
and Yahoo for a 1.6% stake in Facebook. The investment will cost Microsoft $240 million valuing
the total site at somewhere around $15 billion. "The astronomical ...
(more)Facebook Gets New Integrated IM Client (Saturday 06th of October 2007 07:45:04 AM)
Stitch_Surfs writes "Blognation is reporting that the IM client FriendVOX has gone live for
Facebook. This is the first time that Facebook users (of which there are now some 32 million)
can communicate with one another from directly within the Facebook ...
(more)Updates :) (Thursday 27th of September 2007 05:38:00 AM)
Hello people who reads my blogs lol. umm school's been ok for me but there are a couple of
assignments and tests that I thought I did well like 90 and up and osmehow i didn't get that i
got 65~70 sucks ass! anyways..
my ...
(more)Spotlight on Facebook Groups Affects Microsoft (Tuesday 11th of September 2007 08:45:04 AM)
NewsCloud writes "After Slashdot reported Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech, the
company removed its F**k Islam group for a day (it's back up now). indisputable to the New York
Times, 'Facebook declined to comment on Friday on the subject of ...
(more)New Wall Feature [Beta] (Tuesday 03rd of July 2007 06:49:00 AM)
Hi, I added a new wall feature.<diggthis align=left>What is a wall? This is like a
scratch patch where friends, members, visitors can add a few words about you.You can change
your settings in your profile->My Wall and everything should be fine ...
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