Facebook is always after more money to help the social network operate. I am sure that with all the people that use the site the costs of maintaining are astronomical. Facebook certainly has a massive stockpile of cash on hand so it's not hurting, but more money is always a good thing. Facebook has added in new in-game offers to allow developers of games to grab more money.
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45,000 Facebook passwords stolen by Ramnit worm
It's time to change your passwords again, Facebook users, because a worm by the name of Ramnit has entered the social realm through the social network with a capital F. Don't worry though, most of the passwords were stolen from people living in the UK and France. That said, this worm has been around since as early as April of 2010 and has been transforming ever since, coming to Facebook after running through so many computers on the way that a July 2011 Symantec report said Ramnit variants accounted for a total of 17.3 percent of all software infections TOTAL. It's time for some social fun!
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Microsoft Studios signs casual gaming deal
Microsoft's gaming arm has inked a deal with a social gaming specialist, for a multi-title collaboration that could flesh out the Windows 8 Store or even bring a Halo-style mini-game to Facebook. The agreement [pdf link] between Microsoft Studios and Arkadium will see the two work together to "develop casual and social cross-platform experiences" that will likely benefit Windows PC, tablet, Windows Phone and Xbox users.
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Take your Twitter Kid’s gifts back NOW
If you’ve not yet experienced the unmitigatedly satanic screaming of the hoards of ungrateful kids across the nation at not getting the iPhone they wanted for Christmas, now’s your chance – and if you’re a parent of one of these whining little pukes, you’ve got one option, and one option only: take back everything else you gave them. There’s a song that goes with this sudden collecting of Twitter status updates that sums it all up quite nicely, you can watch it below. When you do, please, for the love of Pete, check your kid’s Twitter account and make sure they’re not a horrible, horrible person.
Google+ passes 62 million users, adding 625,000 new users daily
It may be because of the brand appeal, the TV commercials, the Android 4.0 release, or the general holiday spirit (or rather, blatant commercialism) that Christmas brings, or an amalgamation of all these factors, but there is no doubt that the number of new user signups for Google+ each day has grown rather rapidly in the past several weeks. Google+ has apparently just passed the 62 million user mark, and adds about 625,000 new users daily, according to unofficial Google statistician Paul Allen.
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Facebook is the most searched term and most visited site of 2011
The most searched term and the most visited website of 2011 were, drum roll, Facebook. Garnering almost half of the top ten search terms (specifically four, those being 'facebook', 'facebook login', 'facebook.com', and 'www.facebook.com'), this is the third year in a row that the world's largest social network has been the most searched term overall, accounting for 3.1 percent of all searches online, an impressive 46 percent increase from 2010. A certain Mark Zuckerberg out there must be quite pleased with himself right now.
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Briefly envisioning an Apple-made social network
The following is an exploration of what I believe Apple will make sometime in the future if it ever decides to dip into what we currently call the social networking environment here with Facebook, Google+, and Twitter: you’ll find that it’s not wholly unbelievable, but that you’ll perhaps have some issues with agreeing to the full terms if you’re a hardcore Apple fan. An Apple social network would be and will be first and foremost something unique, or at least an amalgamation of uncommon elements combined into a new and groundbreaking service, and it’ll be integrated into its iProducts in a way that’ll once again re-invigorate the masses to buy in to the lifestyle. If Apple has something to the tune of a social network in the works today, this is what it looks like.
Facebook explains adverts in bid to pacify users
Facebook has quietly begun a new campaign to explain how its advertising system works, flagging up details on the system when users log into the site to check their wall. "Ever wonder how Facebook makes money?" the new banner asks, linking to Facebook's About Advertising page and several FAQs about whether the social network sells personal information and how sponsored stories are implemented.
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Here’s why Google+ shouldn’t work, but does, for now
Just a few months ago, inside the summer of 2011, we saw the birth of Google’s own utterly mystifying social networking site Google+, complete with an interface that resembled not one, but all of the rest of the social media sites combined – what we’ve seen since are hundreds of combatant posts yelling at one another about how Google+ is either growing rapidly or suddenly petering out. There are numbers that can prove both if you don’t pay attention to the other, that much is true. What I want to tell you today is why I think what’s GOING to happen almost certainly WILL.
Yahoo thinks everything you read should be shared, that you should be comfortable with it
If you've been a part of Facebook through the most recent round of updates that've included what they've dubbed "Frictionless Sharing", you know that many connected apps are now demanding that everything you experience through them should also be shared with all of your contacts - when asked by TechCrunch whether or not this was ruining users ability to curate what's shown in their day to day, Yahoo's Mike Kerns had some disturbing things to say. The conversation came about amid Yahoo's announcement that Facebook's Frictionless Sharing experience had brought them the auto-sharing of 1 million articles over a 2 month period, this leading to 500,000 daily referrals to their site. In response to this success, Yahoo has released a notifications system across their sites, this showing off content activity in a similar way to Facebook. Kerns basically tells TechCrunch that kids these days like to share, and should just suck it up.
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Facebook gets Ads in Main News Feed starting January
Starting in the year 2012 and in the month of January, Facebook will be starting the flood of ads in their main news feed with a trickle: one sponsored ad in your main feed per day at the start, with these ads appearing as normal posts save for the small “Sponsored” tag in the comment line. Users wont be able to opt out of seeing sponsored ads in their main news feed, and mobile news feed stories MAY be in the works for 2012 as well. It appears that a few sites from all walks of life such as Inside Facebook and TechCrunch have received confirmation from Facebook that these changes will appear, again, at the start of 2012.
Lady Gaga twitter and Facebook account hacks target fan info
When it comes to social networking none of the musicians out there today do it as well as Lady Gaga. She is the most followed person on Twitter and has a Facebook fan page with tens of millions of users. The official Gaga Facebook and Twitter pages were recently the target of attacks by hackers. Attackers posted messages that appeared to be coming from Gaga claiming to give free iPad 2 tablets to the users of the sites.
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