Tag: facebook
Facebook friends get the pin-up treatment with Social Artworks
Can't get enough of your Facebook friends? You can now pin them onto your bedroom walls as well as stalk their relationship statuses thanks to Social Artworks. They'll take all or your carefully selected pals and turn their profile pictures…
Facial recognition coming to Facebook photos
Facial recognition tech is coming to your Facebook photo uploads, meaning you may never again have to type in your pal's names in order to tag them in your pictures. Facebook will be grouping people on your friends list with…
Facebook founder Zuckerberg crowned Time magazine's Person of the Year
The much-coveted Time magazine Person of the Year award has one to Facebook founder and multi-billionairre Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg took the prize for "connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a…
Facebook Visualizes Global Friendships
Paul Butler, an intern on Facebook's data infrastructure engineering team, recently created this incredible social graph visualizing the Facebook connections around the globe. Butler started out by using a sample of 10 million friend pairs, correlated them with their…
Top Trends On Facebook For 2010
Earlier this week both Google and Twitter shared with us 2010's top searches and topics respectively. Now its Facebook's turn to let us know what its users have been talking about this year. In order to determine the top trends,…
Qype and Facebook to team up for iPhone app
Qype, the database for user generated reviews and event, restuarant and place recommendations, is to team up with Facebook for a new iPhone app. According to the Qype press release: "The app will link check-ins from Qype with Facebook…
Facebook's Zuckerberg to give away over half his $6.9 billion wealth
Following in the footsteps of the philanphropic work of other tech billionaire Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that he is to give away over half of his $6.9 billion wealth to charity either before or following his…
Facebook profile pages to get a makeover
Facebook boss has previewed the social network's new-look profile pages during a guest spot on US talk show 60 Minutes. The changes aim to put all the most frequently accessed information on a profile page in one place, without…
72% of Brits social network in bed, instead of doing…other things…
So it's official: us Brits are more jacked-into the network than a stony faced Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. According to a new survey from hotel-chain Travelodge, 72% of UK surfers can't sleep without checking up on social networks like…
MySpace soon to be for sale again?
News Corporation are looking into either selling social network MySpace or entering into a partnership in a bid to make the flailing site profitable, according to News Corp Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey. Seeing its user numbers fall dramatically following…
