Archive for November, 2007

Facebook improve’s news feed

Posted on November 23, 2007 | No Comments
Facebook announced an improvement in news feed by introducing feedback controls. The feedback control will allow you to give news feed a thumps up or the “X” to indicate you don’t like the feed. Sphere: Related Content
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Plaxo’s success with OpenSocial application

Posted on November 22, 2007 | 1 Comment
Plaxo’s social network, Pulse has seen a surge in traffic since the launch of their application built using the OpenSocial API. It is reported the traffic jump from 200,000 around Nov. 1 to 1 millon on Nov. 14. Sphere: Related Content
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Facebook beacon mess up

Posted on November 21, 2007 | 1 Comment
An online activist website MoveOn.org is protesting how the Facebook beacon ads platform is violating users privacy. The Facebook beacon service sends news feed to a user’s friends list when the user makes a purchase on a partner website, e.g. Amazon, Coca Cola, etc. It has...
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Google Custom Search Engine in 40 languages

Posted on November 20, 2007 | No Comments
Today Google announced that the Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) has gone global. It is now available in 40 languages in close to 80 countries. The Google CSE is useful for people who have websites, blogs or special interest groups. You can create a custom...
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Facebook to buy Zhanzou.com is a rumour

Posted on November 19, 2007 | No Comments
This morning I read on digg.com about Facebook’s intention to buy one of the largest Chinese social networking site called zhanzou.com for $85 million but later I read on allfacebook.com that the news is a rumour. The author of allfacebook.com contacted Facebook’s PR and Facebook...
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