Facebook Increases Status Update Limit to 63,000 Characters
December 2, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
On Facebook, the company team posted an image whose graphic text announced a new limit for status updates: 63,206 characters. It’s rather staggering if compared to Twitter’s or even Facebook’s own from a few years back. Nevertheless, Google weighs in as the heavyweight champ in this matter; it currently boasts a peerless 100,000 character limit.
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Salman Rushdie Overturns Facebook’s Decision to Call Him “Ahmed Rushdie”
November 20, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Like many people, Salman Rushdie goes by his middle name, even on Facebook, which prefers, apparently, that folks go by their first. This Monday saw the two sides come to a head-to-head battle in public. After unceremoniously deactivating Salman Rushdie’s account until he complied with a passport copy request to verify his identity, Facebook reinstated
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Facebook Gets Friend.ly, But Will It Also Get Sweet?
October 17, 2011 by creative · Leave a Comment
At just two years old, Friend.ly has entered the whale’s mouth that is a Facebook acquirement. It seems like a fitting cap for a very eventful sophomore showing — this was the year, after all, that the startup experienced a robust growth spurt in user numbers, clinched $5 million in venture funds, and scored a
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Social Media Urges On a New Statistics
October 12, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
The world’s twitter and Facebook output — along with its googling and cell phone geo data — is about to be stirred, strewn out on a researcher’s desk, and examined like a sacrificed animal’s entrails during the heyday of ancient Greece. It seems that social media has done wonders for the acceptance of an old
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Congressional Bi-Partisan Caucus Throws the Book at Facebook
October 1, 2011 by creative · Leave a Comment
Is Facebook tracking you without lawful permission? The co-Chairs of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Caucus seem to think so. The concerned and chairing congressmen are Ed Markey, from Massachusetts and Joe Barton, from Texas — their political persuasions correspond to well-established national topoi of northern and southern states. Jointly, they’ve signed and sent a letter to
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Facebook Introduces Subscribe Button
September 28, 2011 by creative · Leave a Comment
If you haven’t noticed already, Facebook has added to its suite of features the Subscribe button, a new way for users to filter exactly what they see in their News Feed. Mainly geared toward people with a lot of friends, the new tool allows users to select the information they see from friends in the
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Facebook announces new changes, including Timeline
September 27, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
Today at Facebook F8 conference, which is a conference held by Facebook for developers, Mark Zuckerberg and gang showed off some new upcoing features of facebook, including something called a Timeline and also features for Music and Movies. The conference was held in San Franciscio with around 2000 attendees. The Timeline feature will basically provide
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Backlash to Facebook’s Awesome Timeline
September 24, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
Around the start of summer, Facebook brass kept commenting about a “something awesome” that would soon be unveiled. Well, as of yesterday everybody knows what the social network’s most awe-inspiring launch to date is: the FB Timeline. It seemed media watchers couldn’t keep pace with the torrent of positive feelings and thoughts that were too
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Facebook Reigns In its Constant Emailing with Notification Bundles
September 19, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
Facebook is now getting its feet wet with the lukewarm waters of bundled emails. Perhaps not especially desirous of hearing the grumbling that LinkedIn can’t seem to escape, about swamped inboxes with unread company notifications, Facebook has decided to take action on the matter. So, instead of hoping that its over 700 million users start
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Facebook’s IPO Not Until Late 2012?
September 18, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
This week the Financial Times reported that Facebook’s will not have its initial public offering until late 2012. The FT cited sources close to the company in the report for the scoop, but all that was obtained from Larry Yu, Facebook’s spokesperson, was: “As is our typical practice, we just don’t get into speculation about
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