Facebook’s lead engineer for iPhone applications, Joe Hewitt, has announced an upcoming release of the 3rd version of iPhone applications. According to Joe, “98%” of the development work is completed and he will be announcing the launch as soon as he has delivered the latest version to Apple. &n...

Facebook has newly appointed yet another ex-google employee to its rank. It has been reported that facebook has hired Greg Badros, a former senior director of engineering at google, as a new director of engineering for facebook.

Greg Badros’s major responsibilities at Google, as a senior director of engineering, included engineering AdSense that started off back in 2004 an...

According to the recent data reports, Facebook has exceeded 1 billion chat messages, per day, on 17th June, Wednesday 2009.  Facebook chat was introduced in 2008 but in a very short while, this little gizmo has certainly proved to be a great resource for its users for instant messaging. It is no surprise that facebook has witnessed its chat application grow thrice in size in the last 4 mon...

The famed king Sanford Wallace faced a federal lawsuit by facebook at the starting of this year (February 24th, 2009) as well as Adam Arzoomanian, and Scott Shaw for crimes under the CAN-SPAM Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the California Anti-Phishing Act.

However, it is no surprise that Sanford Wallace declared he is bankrupt last Friday, 12th June, 2009, which was likel...

Facebook adds another feather to its hat through successful collaboration with XBOX 360. This is certainly an Xbox gamers’ dream, root deeper into a far greater social connectivity.

Displaying the Xbox gamer tag on your profile page, you can exhibit your score and all of your accomplishments. Privacy issues are of utmost concern so if you don’t wish to display any result for a parti...

If you’re one of those gourmets and you want to pick up a new restaurant for eating out this evening; what are you expected to do? Do a bit of Google-ing or ask your friends about a nice, cool place? Most probably you ask your friends or colleagues at work – because you trust their opinion and experience. This is one of the primary differences between Google and social networks that can give G...

Tim O’Shaughnessy, CEO of LivingSocial, recently made a statement that might not be very surprising to most of us but it sure is contemplating. He said, “It wouldn't surprise me if apps on Facebook generate more revenue this year than Facebook” and when a CEO of the company with the biggest app on the platform says this, it does signify a meaning.

Applications on Facebook are...

Recently, Facebook has announced its support for OpenID. Now, you can easily register on Facebook with your Gmail account and existing users can enjoy an automatic login while they access their Gmail. This sounds like a sigh of relief to the internet browsers who no longer need to remember multiple addresses and passwords and of course it gets a lot easier for new users to register themselves on t...