Facebook for Mobile is Growing Rapidly
Just eight months ago, more than 20 million users were actively using Facebook on their mobile devices. Today, the company has announced that that number has more than tripled — bringing the current active userbase to more than 65 million. The other big news today is that Facebook Connect will now start appearing on mobile sites and in mobile applications (iPhone is already supported). The same way Facebook Connect makes it easy to login to sites or share information with your friends just...
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Facebook Captcha: What You DON’T Need to Type
*Update: Commenters pointed out that the methods explained below ruin the reCAPTCHA project, which Facebook uses for its bot detection, and it might be true, so let me clarify. I’m aware that reCAPTCHA serves a good cause – digitalization of books and newspapers, and I’m sorry if I’ve encouraged anyone to cheat the system, as that was not my intention. However, as you can see in the example below, most “special” characters that appear in reCAPTCHA, such as those with umlauts,...
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Facebook Friends For Sale: This Time It’s Not a Game
With all the buzz around social media, opportunistic and shady businesses are savvy to the fact that those with less than perfect intentions want to take the easy street to instant credibility. Enter social media salesman, uSocial, a company that has become somewhat notorious for previously selling Diggs and Twitter followers. In both instances, the startups tried to have them shutdown, but uSocial is back at it, and this time their promise is thousands of Facebook friends or fans. uSocial is...
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The Top 12 Social Media Stories This Week
Social media was even busier than normal as we got new info on some of the web’s most anticipated products. The first screenshots of Firefox 3.7, the revelation that 100,000 invites for Google Wave arrive in September, and the removal of the Alice in Wonderland trailer from YouTube made headlines this week. Social media was not without controversy this week, though. Digg was engulfed in controversy when it changed its short URL service, the DiggBar, early this week, and a contest by...
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Bill Gates Dumps Facebook: “Too Many Friends”
Bill Gates confessed at an event in New Delhi today that he gave up on Facebook because he couldn’t keep up with the friend requests. Gates remarked that there were “10,000 people wanting to be my friends” after he tried out the service, and it was time consuming to decide if he “knew this person, did I not know this person”.Gates was speaking at a gathering to accept the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ...
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