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What’s Facebook Releasing Next Week? Not Project Spartan. Kari Henley: Should Kids Be Using Facebook? Two years ago, I got my first Facebook account, and wondered if Facebook friends were real friends.

Kari Henley: Should Kids Be Using Facebook?

It was one of the most requested articles I have written for reprint. I then wrote about Facebook and our youth, and wondered if their brains were equipped to handle social networking, with a similar result. It seems lots of us are asking the same questions. » Why Facebook just lost half its value–Buzz is better. Hands down. Calacanis. Why Spotify and Facebook Would Make a Great Team.

The rumor mill is in overdrive with the suggestion that Facebook might have done a deal with European music streaming service Spotify.

Why Spotify and Facebook Would Make a Great Team

Why would they do that? Facebook is the undisputed winner of social networking. The more people who spend a lot of time on Facebook, the more money there is to be made. Music is an excellent way of doing that. Copycats: Top 10 International Facebook Clones. As Facebook marches towards a potential IPO, savvy (some might say shameless) entrepreneurs around the globe continue to develop foreign clones of the red-hot social network.

Copycats: Top 10 International Facebook Clones

Many of these have been around for years, and some have been very successful. Here is a look at 10 of the most profitable copycats so far. StudiVZ A Facebook clone for the German market, the founders of StudiVZ have already sold the site for more than $100 million. Chinese Social Network Renren Prices $743M IPO AT $14 Per Share, At High End Of Range. Chinese social network Renren has priced its its initial public offering of shares at $14 per share, with a total offering size of $743.4 million. The price per share falls into the high range that the Street expected, which was $12 to $14 per share. The shares will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange today under the symbol “RENN.” Of the 53,100,000 ADSs being offered, 42,898,711 ADSs are offered by Renren and 10,201,289 ADSs are offered by the selling shareholders.

The Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 7,965,000 ADSs at the initial public offering price to cover over-allotment. As we wrote a few days ago, there has been strong interest in Renren’s IPO because it is one of the first social networks to go public in the current climate.

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Is Now Richer Than The Google Guys - Luisa Kroll - Worth While. Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works. Got enemies on Facebook?

Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works

Facebook is so eager to protect copyright that the mere accusation of copyright infringement is enough to get an account locked. Ars found this out the hard way Thursday morning when our own Facebook page became inaccessible, with no warning, no explanation, and no clear appeal process. To make matters worse, Facebook is not responsive to inquiries about account lockout, and the company provides absolutely zero useful direction on how to rectify a complaint. This is a rather useless notice. No details about the alleged infringement are given; all Facebook can do is muster a link to a generic help page which provides no additional clarification as to the real cause of the account lockout.

Prior to the account lockout, we had received no notices of infringement or warnings. Here's the Email That Could Cost Mark Zuckerberg Half of Facebook. Just as Mark Zuckerberg won a major legal victory against Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss on Monday, the Facebook founder and CEO faces a new ownership threat from a New York man claiming a 50 percent stake in Zuckerberg's social networking site.

Here's the Email That Could Cost Mark Zuckerberg Half of Facebook

When the suit was first introduced last summer, it was widely dismissed in tech circles. Paul Ceglia claimed he signed an agreement with Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 that, in exchange for a small investment in Zuckerberg's site "the face book," entitled him to 50 percent of the now-wildly popular social network. The suit raised doubts for a number of reasons. First, Ceglia waited seven years to file it. Would I Invest In Facebook? No Thank You. - Quicker Better Tech -

1 million Facebook fans brings in an average of 826 likes and 309 comments per post - TNW Facebook. F-Commerce : j’ai testé pour vous Boosket. Après une étude sur Payvment, je continue donc comme promis ma tournée des applis de F-Commerce avec cette fois à l’étude Boosket.

F-Commerce : j’ai testé pour vous Boosket

On a beaucoup entendu parler de Boosket récemment avec la levée de fond en début d’année. En tout cas, cette version béta a su séduire bon nombre de nos e-commerçants français, et pas des moindres, comme Kiabi.com , Naf Naf et Archiduchesse. Voyons voir de plus près le cœur de cette application. Tarifs et téléchargement Il existe actuellement 2 versions : une gratuite et une payante. On remarque qu’ils ont tout misé sur les valeurs ajoutées de leurs applications en les mettant en avant dès la page d’inscription sur Facebook, je suis plutôt agréablement surprise.

Le Back-End de l’application : je crée mon F-Boutique Là encore franchement, le back-end est très agréable à utiliser. Même remarque que pour Payvment, le mélange d’anglais et de français est un peu bizarre dans les libellés mais bon, comme la navigation est aisée, on les pardonne. Conclusion : Facebook Now Pays Users 10 Cents To Watch Certain Ads.

Facebook introduced a program Thursday that offers consumers a financial incentive to watch ads on the site.

Facebook Now Pays Users 10 Cents To Watch Certain Ads

Facebook will now reward users who watch certain ads with Facebook Credits, which can be redeemed to purchase goods on Facebook Deals, the company’s new Groupon-like daily deals service. The incentive, however, is not huge. Initially, the average ad will yield one credit, which is equivalent to 10 cents. The ads will mostly be in games. CrowdStar, Digital Chocolate and Zynga are among the participating game publishers. Suddenly, Facebook Shuts Down Apps Left And Right. Comment ramener Facebook sur votre média (et pas l’inverse)

Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter. Today I was very fortunate to have gotten a tour of Facebook’s new datacenter up in Prineville, Oregon (map).

Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter

This datacenter is the most energy efficient in the world and only a handful of press got a look. We’ll have a video up after editing it, but here’s a look at the datacenter in photos. I shot all of these photos on an unmodified iPhone 4 with Instagram, that just got an update today. For the panoramic photos I was using Occipital’s 360 app. Here’s the sight that we saw on arriving. Facebook Recommends HTTPS Secure Browsing Via Home Page Prompts. Facebook Security: The Problem Is Facebook Users. Facebook Hires Hacker George Hotz, iPhone And PlayStation 3 Jailbreaker: REPORT.