Not content with simply letting its users spam each other to death with an endless barrage of application requests, Facebook will now allow a new application to turn users into nauseating sales reps, preying on their friends to earn commission for selling products. A new application called “Affiliate Window” is bribing users with between 1% […]

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Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya said Wednesday that the social network wants to work with anyone, including Google, as long as the company respects privacy. The Executive called a recent tussle with Google over the search giant’s new social-networking application Friend Connect a “storm in a teacup”. “Google built an application that violated our terms of […]

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Yet another Google Executive is moving across to Facebook. Harvard trained lawyer and Google
vice president of communications and public affairs Elliot Schrage is making the move to Facebook where he will report to Sheryl Sandberg, another top-level Google exec who was hired as COO by Facebook. Other Googlers who have recently moved to Facebook include: […]

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Social networking sites are becoming a prime target for criminals according to the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Popular sites such as MySpace and Facebook are prime targets for these attacks, in which rogue criminals steal personal information or match personal details with credit card numbers stolen from other sites. Sites can sometimes provide […]

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Facebook has confirmed that it will be conducting a slow, gradual rollout of Facebook Chat, and tells users to expect “fairly soon to notice our Chat bar at the bottom of your browser”. Justin Smith of InsideFacebook is one of the lucky ones to already have it and he has posted his first impressions. The […]

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Want to build your very own social network? By following the following 18 steps you will be well on your way, and who knows, perhaps you will be the founder of the next big thing to follow Facebook!

Install ELGG
Upload “ELGG”
Renaming
Enter your details
Create an account
Make an upload file
Save this configuration
Installation completed
Log into the site
Add a user
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Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has reportedly upped his stake in Facebook to more than $100 million according to Marketwatch. Li previously invested a reported $60 million in the company in November of last year. This means that the investor now owns nearly 1 percent of Facebook, assuming the deal was made at the same […]

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It is reported in the IDG News Service that Microsoft is opening up its Windows Live platform to allow users to share their contact lists with five social-networking sites, some of which until now have been accessing such data through the back door. Facebook and Bebo members can now invite friends on their Windows Live […]

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Facebook has angered Jewish settlers by listing them as residents of “Palestine”, forcing the social networking site to allow users to change themselves back to Israel. Facebook users living in Maale Adumim, Ariel and other Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank protested when the site automatically listed their hometowns as being in “Palestine.” Settlers […]

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It is reported that Facebook has been testing a new instant messaging service and will be launching it to the public soon, perhaps during the next week. The service will probably be built into the users main page and will let users chat with their Facebook friends. The service is likely to be built from […]

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