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Facebook tools. Costs. Howto. Spam. Timeline. Fun. Privacy. Saatchi Gallery - We are very sorry to report that the post we... Facebook : 1 milliard d'utilisateurs en aout 2012. Selon l'agence américaine iCrossing, le réseau social Facebook pourrait franchir la barre du milliard d'utilisateurs dès cette année. En prenant en compte son rythme d'évolution, ce cap symbolique pourrait être atteint dès le mois d'août. En ce début d'année, Facebook compte un peu plus de 800 millions d'inscrits. Facebook Acq-Retired Face.com, But Here’s Why It Will Bank By Reviving Its Facial Recog API. Tagged photos are Facebook’s lifeblood, and it would be happy to suck them out of other apps. That’s why I suspect Facebook will resurrect Face.com’s facial recognition API, even though it just shut it down less than a month after acquiring the Israeli company.

Reopening the API will let other apps’ users easily tag their Facebook friends in photos…which can then be shared back to Facebook where they generate notifications, return visits, and engagement the social network can monetize with ads. It’s all part of Facebook’s on-going quest to become the Omni-news feed, collecting content from everywhere for data-mining and display. Too Many Faceless Photos Tagged photos are extremely valuable to Facebook. They’re a strong signal for who you’re currently closest to, so they teach its EdgeRank algorithm who to show in your news feed. Tagged photos can appear on multiple people’s timelines so they generate more time-on-site from browsing.

Resur-Facing The API. Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website. When Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06 grew impatient with the creation of an official universal Harvard facebook, he decided to take matters into his own hands. After about a week of coding, Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com last Wednesday afternoon. The website combines elements of a standard House face book with extensive profile features that allow students to search for others in their courses, social organizations and Houses. “Everyone’s been talking a lot about a universal face book within Harvard,” Zuckerberg said. As of yesterday afternoon, Zuckerberg said over 650 students had registered use thefacebook.com.

“I’m pretty happy with the amount of people that have been to it so far,” he said. But Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. “There is a project internally with computer services to create a facebook,” Davis said. Zuckerberg’s site allows people with Harvard e-mail addresses to upload their pictures and personal and academic information. Lisa H. Facebook Stock Certificate.