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AllFacebook- Inevitable Class Action Suit Goes After Facebook Scammers November 13, 2009Over five months after we first started covering some of the aggressive advertisements on Facebook, a class action suit is being filed on behalf of the users who were victims of reverse mobile billing scams. This was an inevitable suit although this really appears to simply be a law firm looking to profit from [...]Nick O'Neill
- Fight Club Promotion Makes Integrated Photo Trailers A Standard November 13, 2009For the upcoming 10th anniversary of Fight Club, Fox has launched a Facebook Connect integration similar to a number of implementations that we’ve previously written about. One coincidental trivia item first noted on Techcrunch is that the director behind Fight Club, David Fincher, is also the director of the upcoming movie about Facebook, “The [ […]Nick O'Neill
- Facebook Launching On XBox LIVE Next Week, Possibly Coming To PS3 November 12, 2009Last month we wrote about the impending launch of Facebook on XBox LIVE and now it’s official. According to Microsoft, Facebook will launch on Xbox LIVE on November 17th, the same day we mentioned last month. Facebook integration is relatively robust (see here) including the ability to update your status, view your Facebook [...]Nick O'Neill
- Compete Stats: Facebook Dominance Continues November 12, 2009Only two weeks ago I wrote that Facebook was dominating the internet (and Twitter) based on the latest Hitwise statistics. Two weeks later Compete is showing a similar trend with Facebook growing 3 percent domestically over the past month while Twitter drops by around 2 percent. As I mentioned last month though, direct [...]Nick O'Neill
- wooga Closes Second Round Of Funding For $7.5 Million November 12, 2009wooga, the company behind the popular Brain Buddies application, announced today that they have secured $7.5 million from Balderton Capital as a follow-up to the first round of funding from Holtzbrink Ventures we covered earlier this year. Since August, Brain Buddies has surpassed Playfish’s popular “Who Has The Biggest Brain?” application. […]Nick O'Neill
- LEAKED: The Facebook Ads API (Updated) November 11, 2009Back in July we were the first to post about an impeding Facebook Ads API for agencies and large advertisers. Today, Justin Smith posted the latest documentation of the Facebook Ads API as provided by an unknown source. The service is just as we’d expect given that Facebook’s existing advertising platform uses JSON-encoded [...]Nick O'Neill
- Facebook Launches Friends Of Connections Targeting For Ads November 11, 2009This afternoon Facebook announced a new targeting feature for advertisers: friends of connections targeting. The feature enables advertisers to target those “users whose friends are connected to” specific Pages, Events, Groups, and Applications that you currently manage. It’s an improvement upon the “connections” targeting featu […]Nick O'Neill
- Tweetdeck For iPhone Now Supports Facebook November 11, 2009In September, Tweetdeck updated their desktop application to allow users to view their entire Facebook feed next to their Twitter feed. Given that it’s probably the most popular Twitter desktop application, Facebook support became extremely useful. As of today Tweetdeck’s iPhone application now provides support for Facebook as well, letting you v […]Nick O'Neill
- Facebook Now Recommending Users Poke Each Other November 11, 2009A couple weeks ago we wrote about Facebook’s improved profile suggestions however at the time we didn’t notice one thing: Facebook’s recommendation to poke each other. Many people still debate what the purpose of poking is however Facebook appears to be using it as a tool to get users to be more active. [...]Nick O'Neill
- Facebook User Hijacks Groups As A Public Service November 10, 2009In what appears to be a relatively well planned campaign to build awareness about online security, a group of users (or one individual who has multiple accounts) are systematically going through Facebook Groups which don’t have administrator privileges and taking them over. The individuals, who have accounts under the names “Janis Roukkos” […]Nick O'Neill
- Inevitable Class Action Suit Goes After Facebook Scammers November 13, 2009
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