Category: Facebook

Have you ever wanted to save your everyday Facebook activity for posterity? Want to make a book out of your Facebook to show your grandkids one day? Well now you can, with a bit of help from the Ninuku Archivist and a printer. For the princely sum of 24 of your hard-earned bucks, if you can stomach the massive privacy risk, Ninuku will automatically download your Facebook activity and make monthly ...

Facebook and MySpace held a joint event today to announce MySpace's new Mashup with Facebook feature, which can sync all of your Facebook "likes" to MySpace in one click. MySpace will be getting Facebook like buttons, rolling out across the service starting today. Interests on MySpace will also be linked to relevant interests on Facebook, and MySpace will use your Facebook data to recommend ...

With Google calling out Facebook last week for trapping your contacts, it seems like a perfect time to offer a solution for rescuing those Facebook contacts and their email addresses -- sorry, still no phone numbers -- and exporting them to Gmail or your other address book of choice. To do this, you'll need a Yahoo! account (Mozilla's Asa Dotzler says a Windows Live account works, too). It's ...

Users of the Facebook app for iOS can now access their privacy settings without firing up Safari. Following the update to version 3.2, you can tap the account button on the app's main screen to jump to Facebook's controls. The update also adds two-tap access to your Facebook profile settings and the Help Center -- also via the Web. As AppAdvice points out, native controls would have been a nicer ...

Facebook's mobile event today didn't give us the rumored Facebook phone, but it did introduce three important new pieces in Facebook's mobile strategy: a one-click sign-on option, location APIs for checking into Facebook Places from third-party apps, and a deals platform for businesses and their customers. Places also made its debut in Facebook's Android app. Facebook is pushing to make its ...

Facebook's latest acquisition is the cloud-based media sharing service drop.io, which offered a quick and versatile way to upload and share all kinds of files, from pictures to videos to documents. According to a blog post from drop.io, the service will be shutting down December 15th (paid users won't have to pay after November 15th), and deleting all user data. Nothing's being rolled over to ...

Facebook's next big feature will be the "Friendship Page," according to a post on the Facebook blog. These new pages will gather all the public interactions between you and each of your friends -- back and forth wall posts, photos in which you're both tagged, and events you both attended -- and put them all in one convenient page. Friendship Pages will be visible to anyone who's friends with one ...

A new version of the Facebook app for BlackBerry is now available from BlackBerry Beta Zone. This is version 1.9, and it brings loads of new features to enhance your Facebook experience on BlackBerry OS devices. First off, there's now a dedicated inbox for Facebook messages. This inbox syncs with the Web-based Facebook inbox in real-time, including read states. And if you want to, you can ...

An officially-sanctioned and apparently Microsoft-made Facebook application has showed up in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Microsoft loves to tout WP7's native social integration (especially with Facebook) throughout the OS, so whether this app is useful in any meaningful way remains to be seen. It may just be an effort to silence those who kept crying for a separate Facebook app to be ...

It's no secret that Facebook is connected to more sites across the Internet than most would think possible of something other than Google, but a new Chrome extension hopes to allow users to stop their browsing habits outside the social network from becoming more research and marketing fodder for Mark Zuckerberg. The extension, called Facebook Disconnect, blocks contact between your browser and ...

We've seen British police use Twitter to show how busy they are these days, but it looks like the cops in Victoria, Australia have one-upped them in the social-networking arena. Victoria police were forced to use Facebook yesterday to serve an intervention order to a troll who had made locating him in real life too difficult for them. Australian paper The Age is reporting that officers had ...

Facebook has suspended several popular apps, including Familybuilder's Family Tree app and nearly all apps by LOLapps Media (of Gift Creator and Quiz Creator fame). The suspended apps were found to be leaking Facebook ID numbers to a third-party advertising company called Rapleaf, which could use the Facebook IDs to put names and faces to the anonymous consumer data that it collects. Giving any ...

Docs for Facebook is the Microsoft-made online document sharing and editing suite that launched as a lead partner of Facebook's Instant Personalization feature. (And it has a killer domain name: Docs.com.) Today, it's gotten a nice round of updates. First off, full text document search is now available. To address the possibility of having a bazillion results show up for more generic terms, ...

Facebook is gradually rolling out a feature that creates one-time passwords for use with public computers. The theory is that you won't expose your actual Facebook account password when you're logging in from airports, Internet cafes and the likes. This works if you are in the US and have associated a mobile number with your Facebook account. In order to get a one-time password, you need to text ...

Facebook and Bing have announced a partnership that will bring your social network to your Bing search results. When you search on Bing, while logged into Facebook, you'll see your friends' faces next to any results for pages they've "liked," making it easier to spot results you might be interested in. Facebook will also factor into Bing's improved people search, popping up people you're more ...