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Facebook Rolls Out Version 2.0 of their iPhone Application

After Facebook rolled out v1.1 of their iPhone application, they promised that a bigger, badder v2.0 was in the works for September. They cut it pretty close, but they’ve kept their word. Just a few hours ago, the second major release …
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Lead Facebook Engineer Recommends Developers Use IFrames for Speed

Every Facebook application developer faces a major architectural decision when starting a new app: whether to build canvas pages in FBML - Facebook’s subset of HTML with some elements removed and other proprietary elements added - or …
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New Facebook Home Page, New Facebook Tagline Means Too Many

Facebook launched more than a new iPhone app this evening - they also have a new home page (the page you see when you aren’t logged in) and a new tagline. Gone is all the descriptive language suggesting you sign up to “Keep up with …
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Facebook delivers full featured v2 of its iPhone app

Now available in the iTunes store, version 2.0 of Facebook’s iPhone app has gone live, delivering on many of the features of the full site.
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Facebook Stalking: The News Feed as Digital Dossier

In September, 2006, Facebook users revolted. The debut of the News Feed—a feature that allowed users to “get a quick view of what their friends are up to, including relationship changes, groups joined, pictures uploaded, etc., …
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LuckyCal, Winner of Facebook Grant, Makes Your Calendar into a

It’s called LuckyCal, and it’s being built by a Lexington, MA-based startup that’s one of the first 10 companies to receive a grant from Facebook’ $10 million “fbFund.” Announced last year, the fbFund is run by Facebook with money from …
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Birthday Messages Are a Hit on Facebook

If my personal experience is any indication, it looks like a large share is going to Facebook and the social networking platforms and applications. Yesterday was my birthday, and here are the birthday greetings messages I received, …
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Post Your Quiz Results to Facebook

Last week we brought back BBCode, and today we’re introducing automatic posting to your Facebook. On some of our quizzes, you’ll see a button that will send your result directly to Facebook. When you click, you’ll have the opportunity …
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Facebook Application Review of Roomate

Today’s Facebook Review is about the Application called Roommate. The idea of writing this review came some weeks ago when I had to leave my flat and start looking again for a place to rent and… a new roommate… which is the hardest …
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Facebook v2 for iPhone goes live

The Facebook [iTunes link] application for the iPhone has just been updated to version 2 (although you may see it listed as version 1.1 in the store), and the new version number brings some stellar features! …
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