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There has been an interesting update to the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that was about Facebook's “Sponsored Stories”. This is the lawsuit that was filed in federal court in San Jose, California, by five Facebook members who were upset after seeing their likenesses appear on one of Facebook's “Sponsored Stories” without their permission. In short, the five people said
While this may or may not have anything to do with the earlier Facebook-Zynga news, the company has quietly bought up several new domains. A major internet company buying up domain names may not be normally news, but when it's Facebook and it comes on the heels of other major news surrounding the company, it becomes magnified. On November 30th (yesterday) Facebook
It's not yet “Facebook official”, but it looks like game maker Zynga and the social media website Facebook have talked about changing their relationship with each other. The two have been together for years, and I never expected them to consider revising their partnership. However, it seems that they have had “a talk”. The two companies have reached a new
I used to have a Facebook account. Earlier this year, Facebook stopped being fun (to make a long story short). I have since deactivated my Facebook account, for good, and have no intention of returning. The problem, though, is I have started to miss playing some of the little “time waster” games that I used to log into Facebook to
In the latest podcast, Todd rightly asks about the apparent lack of freedom of speech on social media in the UK. Undoubtedly, it's a complex issue but it is becoming increasingly clear that the right to free speech is under threat here in Britain. In this post, I'll look at some of the issues, but to start with, I am
It appears that Facebook is starting to phase out its Facebook Questions feature. You may have used the feature to answer a question in a poll that one of your Facebook friends put together. The Facebook Questions feature was something that everyone on Facebook could use in order to get a “crowd sourced” answer to a specific question. It could
Halloween is going to generate a frightening number of photos, many of which will immediately be posted to various forms of social media. If you went through the trouble to create an interesting costume, odds are you want your online friends to be able to see it. There is a good chance that the people you have connected with through