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I used to think Mark Zuckerberg's achievement with Facebook was a fabulous inspiration to entrepreneurs everywhere.

Mr. Rose didn't rule that out, but said the company had no current plans to do so and was focused on virtual goods for now.

Facebook is not the only social-networking site which likes to think of itself as the new, new thing.

After two hours, he moved to his laptop, on which he watched a TV program and checked his Facebook page during commercials.

With a Facebook IPO at least a year off, many investors are keen for a slice of "the Facebook of China" .

Taken together, the changes mark something of a shift in Facebook's attitude towards online privacy.

The hope was that, in the age of YouTube and Facebook, the regime would avoid repeating the horrors of 1982.

And if it were up to Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook would remain private.

This was not, of course, the first time that not being on Facebook had made me feel as if I lived under a rock.

MySpace began life as part of the News Corporation with the same sort of hoopla that now surrounds Facebook.

What made F8 significant, historic even, was that it was the first time the Facebook platform was thrown open to developers.

On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don't mind being bombarded by adverts for the world's biggest brands.

The culmination of this process is the likes of Facebook, whipped up in a few days by a Harvard student.

Sandberg says she's not daunted by the challenge, but adds that the only expectations that Facebook is trying to meet are its own.

Also, its effective use by activists to help organise the revolt in Egypt has left an inconvenient halo around the company.

If it has been this easy to file a malicious claim and take down an entire brand's page, why hasn't Facebook done anything about it?

'Before it was email, then before that it was the phone. The problem is not Facebook, it is the loss of love in your marriage, ' he said.

The company has both scale and a strong brand, says Lise Buyer, a Silicon Valley-based IPO consultant.

"There is no doubt that Facebook has improved my life in building relationships with other people, " Chiles said.

I was never a big Facebook addict to begin with, but I'd still end up wasting my time there just to see what everybody else was up to.

Mr. Schmidt awards Facebook his highest accolade, calling it a 'company of consequence. '

MORE than anything since the invention of the postal service, Facebook has revolutionized how we relate to one another.

The potential, however, is clear: the Facebook data could have been used to deanonymise the browsing histories associated with the cookies.

I wasn the only one to notice; this was discussed in at least one of the Facebook groups promoting candidacies.

The point: If hiring managers had considered only Priestley's lackluster resume, he'd never have gotten a foot in the door.

Facebook declined to comment on the messages. In prior interviews, Mr. Zuckerberg said he had regretted sending some of them.

Facebook's policies, more than those of any other company, are helping to define standards for privacy in the Internet age.

From what I understood, Facebook did not receive any help from the schools themselves to promote the Facebook site to the student body.

So it is rather easy to spoof the origin of a complaint, while giving Facebook and the accused no chance for a direct rejoinder.

So much so that she anonymously sends dozens of virtual gifts to her Facebook friends simply to see their reactions.

B. J. Fogg, editor of a book called "The Psychology of Facebook, " says that you get out of these sites what you're looking for in them.

But it seems to me that there are too many outside factors that aren't being accounted for to make a causal link with Facebook in this case.

And with Facebook, Skype and good old-fashioned visits, I've managed to stay in decent touch with at least my core group of school friends.

Before I started driving I got on my cell phone on Facebook and messaged his wife, and said, 'I hugged your husband.

Richard Allan, Facebook's director of public policy in Europe, said he was considering the company's response to the letter.

They spent an afternoon together in New York, when the Facebook CEO was on his way to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Time will tell, of course, whether the $50 billion valuation on the social networker implied by the deal turns out to be a good investment.

"He made them all look like a fool, " one wrote at the "Colton Harris-Moore Fan Club" on Facebook.

Facebook also makes it super easy to find people you know, and it has won more fans among professionals and the thirtysomething crowd.

Mr Kirkpatrick believes that Facebook's leaders are smart enough to come up with strategies that will keep the company growing like crazy.

He owns more than a quarter of Facebook's stock and controls votes for three of five board seats, say people familiar with the matter.

On your Facebook blog you explained that it was unusual for you to give such a personal view on your private life.

The transaction fees and increased spending on Facebook could alone bring it a significant amount of revenue.

Speaking of money, we're going to see Facebook really do something with its virtual currency, Facebook Credits, over the next year.

Syria, after banning Facebook for some time, unblocked it once the government was able to monitor activity there, she said.

Watching Microsoft in the company of Google and Facebook is a bit like watching your dad trying to be cool.

Facebook reported that 50m people have signed up to its service since July, taking the total number of users to 300m.

His mission is to "enable others to build" social networking services, which can be accomplished using Facebook's platform, he said.

He had taken at least one picture of her, and then uploaded it to his account.

She sent me a stainless steel straw for my trouble, and she also posted my little ditty on her Facebook group page, which made my day.

Instead of just talking, try to ask questions of your fans and followers. Encourage them to post content on your Facebook page.

Some psychiatrists are beginning to use their Facebook page to promote their practice as well.

About a month before the anniversary, Shriver wrote on her Facebook page that she was going through a transition in her life.

I was really trying to cultivate a group of Facebook friends that were not like me, that had different views.

Eventually the Open Compute Project could exist independently of the company that started it, as a shared resource for the industry.

The page also initiated discussions: there was one on the subject of the Auschwitz memorials and Facebook.

The bank is also planning to set up a fund it will manage that will pump up to $1. 5 billion more from wealthy investors into the company.

We are trying to help people communicate really efficiently, and we are going to allow developers to build some of them inside Facebook.

A "share" button makes it easy to post a Web page, a YouTube video or any other items, to Facebook, Twitter or other sites.

If that email address is occupied with an account on Facebook, it gives us full confidence that this e-mails address is a real one.

Starting this week, Hackamonths are now available to any Facebook engineer who has worked on the same project for more than a year.

Facebook has crafted an internal prospectus and is ready to go public at any time, said the people.

Facebook says it has been grappling with how to handle the ghosts in its machine but acknowledges that it has not found a good solution.

So, how much is Facebook's network of users really worth?

While we're trying to figure out whether it's appropriate to tag a tipsy friend in a Facebook photo, software engineers are barreling ahead.

"Jimmy, could you send your kid over to help me with my facebook? Im afraid I might get a virus without some child supervision. "

Google is more terrified of Facebook than you know. They are dying over how much information is locked inside Facebook's walls.

Facebook says that this data is not available through the API at all, though it might be a good idea for them to put that in writing.

It's worth noting that the company rarely announces exclusive partnerships, so it may actually form ties with other video providers as well.

A woman juror sobbed as she was told she will be jailed for using Facebook to contact a defendant in a multi-million-pound drugs trial.

I imagine that this would be done much the same way that you sign up for a Facebook or other online account.

He posted a photo of the bird on his Facebook page, along with a list of the dishes he made from it.

Wilson was especially dismissive of Facebook, calling it "a photo-sharing site. "

When Facebook, say, makes a change to its platform, developers have no choice but to go along with it.

Unlike Facebook, it has also found a way to turn this into a massively profitable business.

Only by focusing on the whole experience and daring to break out of its own mold will Facebook maintain momentum and growth.

I keep an eye on several Twitter lists, and I check to see what a few Facebook friends are discussing.

That means that, at least for the moment, Facebook doesn't yet have to disclose its finances or publicly address investor complaints.

Microsoft's experienced display ad sales team (via their aQuantive acquisition) should be able to help Facebook with the latter.

Senders can schedule the gift card to appear on the recipient's Facebook Wall up to a year in advance.

Police in Hong Kong are trying to trace members of a group on the social networking site Facebook which appeared to call for a mass suicide.

Of course, Facebook and the like seems where our economy is going, at least a portion of it.

Every time a Facebook or Twitter executive burps within earshot of the media, the question of a public offering seems to emerge.

The back and forth between Facebook and its users over privacy is gaining importance as the company's growth continues unabated.

Here's a breakdown of how the service works and how it differs, at least a little bit, from some of its competition.

My mom made a facebook account like a year ago, and recently she told me that she wanted to upload some photos.

In an interview, Mr. Mehdi declined to say how much he thought the Facebook partnership could increase its share of the search market.

Google then upped the ante by posting a warning: "Once you import your data there, you won't be able to get it out. "

I think the next few years are going to be a very fun period for the company.

To the dismay of some, Facebook has no "Dislike" button. But a new application for the social network may prove to be the next-best thing.

The back and forth between Facebook and its users over privacy is gaining importance as the company's growth continues unabated.

Here's a breakdown of how the service works and how it differs, at least a little bit, from some of its competition.

My mom made a facebook account like a year ago, and recently she told me that she wanted to upload some photos.

In an interview, Mr. Mehdi declined to say how much he thought the Facebook partnership could increase its share of the search market.

Google then upped the ante by posting a warning: "Once you import your data there, you won't be able to get it out. "

I think the next few years are going to be a very fun period for the company.

To the dismay of some, Facebook has no "Dislike" button. But a new application for the social network may prove to be the next-best thing.

Facebook is just a social utility, an entry into the social graph, but not the starting page for discovering the rest of the web.

A strong link was found between the number of Facebook friends a person had and the amount of grey matter in certain parts of their brain.

So would some sort of relationship with Baidu be one of those "specific things" which might break Facebook through the great firewall?

A strong link was found between the number of Facebook friends a person had and the amount of grey matter in certain parts of their brain.

So would some sort of relationship with Baidu be one of those "specific things" which might break Facebook through the great firewall?

Facebook may have had the last laugh when it announced last week that it was opening up its platform architecture.

Livingston said he also wants patients to see his Facebook and Twitter pages as something of "knowledge base. "

It's still up for debate how much personal information you should share with others on your Facebook profile.

James E. Katz, a professor of communications at Rutgers University, said the company was experiencing "a coming-of-age problem. "

Q | Facebook has enjoyed the media spotlight for over a year now, but it is still far from ruling the world.

This left the door open for the likes of Facebook to come in and seize a dominant market share.

Asked if he would remain CEO after the company goes public, Mr. Zuckerberg said yes, but added that he didn't know when that might be.

The social networking giant Facebook is a few steps away from trademarking the word face, online documents reveal.

Asked if he would remain CEO after the company goes public, Mr. Zuckerberg said yes, but added that he didn't know when that might be.

The social networking giant Facebook is a few steps away from trademarking the word face, online documents reveal.

Toward the end of the conversation, Zuckerberg also noted just how much Facebook manages to accomplish with extremely small teams.

The word platform reached buzzword status a year ago when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the start of a movement.

Unless the gender of the user is clear, Facebook does not know which pronoun to use to notify other members add information to the site.

Michael Anti said he was disappointed and angry at the decision. Facebook told him it required people to use their real names.

Facebook apps have generally been a bit of a mixed bag for travel firms since the social network's API was opened to developers in mid-2007.

That will be very good for Zynga and Facebook, but it may not be so good for the stock market at large.

Facebook may have been easy for a young, talented creator to produce, but Jones fears the general trend is in the other direction.

That said, it seems like a cop out to say the best way to compete with Facebook's version of social is not social, but mobile.

Facebook may have been easy for a young, talented creator to produce, but Jones fears the general trend is in the other direction.

That said, it seems like a cop out to say the best way to compete with Facebook's version of social is not social, but mobile.

If you can't see the point of any of those things, you will not see the point of Facebook.

A Facebook page has been set up in her memory with Iranian bloggers describing her as the "Angel of Freedom" .

He did not specify whether that would involve local customisation of Facebook in those countries, or some sort of corporate activity.

Its initial public offering, which is expected within a year or two, would be the biggest Silicon Valley event since Google's IPO in 2004.

Nonetheless, Facebook is betting on the social web and is trying to consolidate its early advantage.

If you've ever want to call your Facebook friends directly via FB and not uh, you know over your cell phone, now you can.

Facebook did not respond to a question about whether the site removes pets' profile pages.

Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it--a whiff of the Ivy League still clings.

Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it--a whiff of the Ivy League still clings.

Xiaonei is called the "Chinese Facebook" and Fanfou is often deemed a "pirated Twitter" .

But so far, the total number of smartphone users is still far lower than Facebook's 400 million people.

And, of course, for George and his life , you can follow him on Facebook, Twitter and even on his personal website.

Just a few short years ago, Facebook was the exclusive province of postmillennial college undergraduates.

Most Chinese young men are just as untamed as Twitterers and Facebookers seem to be in Britain.

He issued a terse statement pointing out that he is not, and never has been, a member of Facebook, or any other social networking site.

People were invited to submit their images of him in the run-up to "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" held by some users of Facebook on 20 May.

Concern about privacy was one of Facebook's motivations, but it was also reflecting the way we live our lives offline.

Then I saw on Facebook that he got married and there were photos of him and his wife.

Then I saw on Facebook that he got married and there were photos of him and his wife.

For years, he said, the Silicon Valley company has focused on tying together people on the Web, mapping out who knows whom.

"Every time I logged on it was just messages from bands I barely heard of, " she said.

OK, so I said that none of these networks are competing with Facebook. That doesn't prevent them from making comparisons to it.

One of the site's key findings was the fact that email donations exceeded those of Facebook and other forms of social media.

2007 was an especially good year for Facebook and the company has made a number of moves that pushed the entire social networking market.

More than anything, it said the folks at Facebook just don't get what user-control is all about.

A helping hand is always nice, especially when it comes to meeting woman, but seriously, this seems so out of place on Facebook to me.

But anybody could have created that site with a false registration, just as anybody could pose as somebody else on a blog or Facebook page.

Whether or not we see the point of it, my generation is going to have to sign up in time.

Whether or not we see the point of it, my generation is going to have to sign up in time.

White House spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said the president will answer online questions from Facebook users Wednesday.

Facebook is leaving it up to users to engage in social networking via the medium that best suits their needs at a particular moment.

The rapid ascent of Facebook has no company more worried than Google, which sees the social networking giant as a threat on multiple fronts.

The site makes it easy to carry on a casual conversation or ask group questions.

That had been the case when she was studying computer science at Stanford and it was still true now that she was at Facebook.

Facebook fan page must be promoted within the Terms of Facebook. Must be achieved by NO means of Illegal activity.

It began to ask its Facebook users for their real email addresses, instead of just relying on Facebook as a means of communication.

'We may be the company that really leads this movement. . . . It's not clear that anyone else is going to manage it correctly. '

"There is no doubt this just adds to the allure to a potential Facebook IPO, " said Morningstar IPO strategist Bill Buhr.

"There is no doubt this just adds to the allure to a potential Facebook IPO, " said Morningstar IPO strategist Bill Buhr.

Heather was already one of the thousands of friends on Patterson's Facebook page but, until that day, the two had never chatted online.

If it was to make Yahoo into a legitimate competitor with Google or Facebook, she failed.

But he said that his company took seriously the issue of user trust and was in regular contact with governments and human rights groups.

I enjoy Facebook and would be happy spending a quarter of my Web life there, if I could leave Facebook for the other 75%.

At least, that seems to be the most plausible interpretation of Facebook's latest scheme, unveiled this week.

However, Facebook said the use of the networking site in the Australian case was thought to be the first of its kind.

A message on David Beckham's Facebook page said: "The boys are very excited about the arrival of a new brother or sister. "

Genius, luck, whatever you want to call it, Zuckerberg reaped a major payday from his first full-time job--cofounder and CEO of Facebook.

"I've never heard of any sex workers advertising on Facebook. Not a one, " wrote "Claudia, " a New York-based sex worker, in an e-mail.

"I've never heard of any sex workers advertising on Facebook. Not a one, " wrote "Claudia, " a New York-based sex worker, in an e-mail.

Mark Zuckerberg has said that he will not sell any of his shares in Facebook for at least one year in a bid to shore up investor confidence.

So far, no one has been able to prove whether Facebook and Twitter activities have led to customer sales.

Facebook must be prepared to take the hits that will inevitably come in the court of public opinion.

In the last month or two I've slowly been unfriending people on Facebook, a dozen or so at a time.

Boys seem to be in a competition to see who can have the most Faccebook friends and that could be a form of mate advertisting.

He said the two most attractive assets available to increase web traffic were Facebook and YouTube.

Jaime Schopflin, a spokesman for Facebook, said the company's current projects included "deeper integrations with some manufacturers. "

For instance, the firm allows members to use their Facebook profiles to log into other sites around the web, creating a sort of passport.

And yet, unless I'm missing it, there is no big export button (which he has called for Facebook to create) there either.

And yet, unless I'm missing it, there is no big export button (which he has called for Facebook to create) there either.

Facebook spokesperson Larry Yu said the free cash flow metric does not include any cash from private investment.

It may make Zuckerberg feel better to say that Facebook "wasn't created to be a company. "

Days after the chat, Facebook was rebuked by the British government for allowing tributes to a murderer to be posted.

It stands to raise up to $18 billion with its initial public offering, when including shares set aside to meet excess demand.

Now, in his social networking site "Facebook" on his website, has launched a release date countdown clock, 91 fans concerned about him.

Forrester Research analyst Augie Ray said the new messaging service will help Facebook in its quest for user-engagement.

'Anyone who's trying to get the attention of the young Internet user now has to compete with the dominant position that Facebook has there.

Page soon got over it, but Facebook's rejection was still a blow to Google; it had never lost a deal this big and this publicly.

This time, however, the site seems to be making changes without having its arm twisted in public.

Just as Facebook announces internal search for public notes, Google counters with an effort to improve on its existing services.

Goldman initially was expected to solicit investors at least until the end of this week.

A worm that spread around Facebook recently featured a photo of a sparsely dressed woman and offered a link to "see more. "

Given how much user activity goes on every day on Facebook, the company has to be working on some kinds of recommendation technologies.

So logs into Facebook, replies to a few messages from his friends and then heads off to meet Jane.

Facebook is suing the company and alleging it is breaking criminal law by not complying with its terms of service.

I also don't actively use FaceBook, and I'm not adding any friends, though I still have an account for the day when I no doubt will.

Facebook has an opt-out option for members who choose not to specify their gender or do not consider gender to be clear cut.

But when he made that connection, Friendster and Facebook were already there.

And hey, I'm not opposed to uploading a hundred pictures at a time of my recent travels into albums on Facebook either.

It's easy to implement Facebook Login, simply by adding few lines of code to a web server.

Instead Facebook responded by informing the university that it did not take complaints from institutions.

In the next few weeks Facebook plans to roll out a redesign of these pages.

People follow Twitter feeds from people they would like to know and make "friends" on Facebook whom they do not know at all.

Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site.

Communication on social networks Facebook and MySpace should happen a few times a week.

But as the pictures from inside Facebook's new offices show, the company appears to have skimped on the soft furnishings.

So now, she uses that new professional Facebook account for her job in alumni relations at a small liberal arts college.

"It feels as if they are tapping into our personal lives, " said Lazaro Leal in an interview conducted via Facebook.

The company says it has disabled thousands of applications at times for violating its policies.

Facebook's chief operating officer is going to speak about how the social web has transformed people's friendships and relationships.

Whether it's on LinkedIn, Facebook or any other networking site, it's much more of a quality game than a quantity game.

A more balanced account of the friction behind Facebook remains to be written.

In a statement, Facebook cited limited international staffing with which to handle the varying laws of other countries.

Facebook told him that he needed to use the name on his government identity card.

I just need 1000 facebook likes for a page. Fans must be real people with an active profile , from ROMANIA - the city does not matter.

And then of course there is the huge data center Facebook is building in Oregon to help it scale out with even more servers.

When I first joined Facebook, there was a well-read blog out in the Valley that devoted some incredibly serious pixels to trashing me.

While Facebook avoided the bottom of the list, Greenpeace says the ever-growing social networking site could be on its way.

Boycott twitter, facebook or any other internet black hole for a week, how do you feel?

Boycott twitter, facebook or any other internet black hole for a week, how do you feel?

A visit to the company's British Facebook page reveals people begging them to open stores in their areas, with feverish desperation.

But it hasn't slowed him down; he doesn't give it much thought when he checks in a few times a day to his Facebook app and plays games.

But although she's up to 180 friends on Facebook, "I still feel lonely, " she said.

I shall not interpret the number of Facebook friends I have like a presidential poll to determine popularity.

And all of it seems to point to Facebook looking to monetize its biggest asset - its 400 million strong user base.

"I never thought they would be able to sell those pictures or give those pictures to someone else. "

Your boss might not mind you checking into Facebook once in a while in the office, but don't do it on the road.

Facebook's privacy problem has always been a thorny issue.

Facebook may turn out to be the next Google, and LinkedIn has a fairly solid revenue plan.

In a post on his Facebook page, he writes, "Just a quick note to warn everyone. There are a lot of fake Facebook accounts out there. "

Parents of the victims have protested against her release, and a Facebook campaign opposed to her parole has attracted huge support.

Zuckerberg also addressed rumors ranging from the company's music ambitions to its profitability.

Facebook's options are limited by the fact that it doesn't have ownership of lower levels in the technology stack like the OS or hardware.

But isn't it pushing it a little to compare Ikea to Facebook?

Google tried to make a deal with Facebook too, Schmidt said, but "Microsoft was willing to give them terms that we were unwilling to. "

Would you share selected parts of your Facebook profile with the local brewery in exchange for a free round of beer?

Facebook says that only friends will be able to tag one another and that only people who are your friends will be suggested as tag options.

Few new social networking companies are trying to steal market share from Facebook, MySpace or the other big entrenched networks.

They then looked through friends of friends on Facebook to find the name of an individual they believed to be responsible.

A court ordered the company to let the Stassens see their son's account. However, Facebook has yet to obey the order.

"Facebook Connect for Mobile Web" is only one way the company is expanding to other platforms.

In the talk, McCandless said he and a colleague scraped 10, 000 Facebook status updates for the phrases "breakup" and "broken up. "

The Facebook application will contain a profile box listing all of the user's photo albums, each a link to a Flex slideshow of that album.

Google's page on Renren, a Chinese equivalent of Facebook, was closed on Wednesday, robbing the company of a key marketing space.

Perhaps most importantly, Facebook users seem to be addicted.

Still, he says, he's getting some of his most valuable contacts and feedback for his business from a much broader networking site: Facebook.

China has become one of the biggest sources of games for mobile devices like the iPhone and social-networking sites like Facebook.

Without a cross-domain channel file, Facebook will not be able to communicate correctly with our application server (see Listing 3).

If you stop working to check your email or get on Facebook ten times a day, this application will let you know.