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A fantastic truth about Facebook

May 28, 2010

The truth is, Zuckerberg needs your data. His business is built upon it. The most important thing to understand about Facebook is that you are not Facebook’s customer, you are its inventory. You are the product Facebook is selling. Facebook’s real customers are advertisers. You, as a Facebook member, are useful only because you can [...]

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Storing and using Facebook user data is complicated

March 19, 2010

You could be forgiven for thinking that it is relatively simple matter to build a Facebook application or to integrate Facebook Connect into your website, request access to users’ profile information (and get it) and use that data for pretty much whatever you need to do with it. Unfortunately that is just not the way [...]

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Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals’ Email

March 8, 2010

on at least one occasion in 2004, Mark used private login data taken from Facebook’s servers to break into Facebook members’ private email accounts and read their emails — at best, a gross misuse of private information. Lastly, it suggests that Mark hacked into the competing company's systems and changed some user information with the [...]

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Jesse Schell on the future of gaming and its increasing role in our lives

March 1, 2010

This is an outstanding talk about the rampant success of Facebook games. Jesse talks about why he thinks FB Games have been so successful and he maps out a future where the idea of “points” are taken to the next level.

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Facebook Secures Patent for News Feed

February 26, 2010

“If Facebook can make news feed a Facebook-only feature, then it drains the usefulness of countless social networks while boosting its own. However, the process of exercising that patent would get very ugly, and we’re not sure if Facebook has a lot of incentive to jump into the snake pit and incur that type of [...]

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Facebook XMPP chat

February 11, 2010

Chat with your Facebook friends right from your desktop, using any instant messaging software. XMPP Facebook support. Now thats an interesting move. It looks to me like Facebook is the business model that Google didn’t see coming. via Facebook Chat. Everywhere. | Facebook.

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