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06.20.11 / Social Gaming Saves Endangered Species

As the love of social networking continues to increase, so does the love of social gaming. Facebook games, such as Farmville, have become a major attraction among the Facebook population. It is often mentioned that these games can become an … Read more »

06.13.11 / Facebook Growth Slows

While Facebook is close to reaching 700 million users, it appears that the site’s growth has slowed. Until two months ago, the typical growth rate for the previous year was about 20 million users, but Facebook’s growth in April and … Read more »

05.2.11 / Facebook Improves the Family Safety Center

Facebook has recently launched a revamped Family Safety Center. The updated features include tools and resources for parents, teachers, and children, along with a very important social reporting tool. The social reporting tool allows users to send a direct message … Read more »

04.11.11 / What a Facebook thumbs up can do

It’s amazing what a few clicks on a little thumb can do. How often do you click that little thumbs up to mean you “like” something on Facebook? Did you know those thumbs up can be helpful to marketers? Well … Read more »

04.4.11 / Facebook use and teen depression

In the most recent issue of the American Association of Pediatrics Journal researchers warned of a new condition named “Facebook Depression.” The condition is describes as, “depression that develops when preteens and teens spend a great deal of time on … Read more »

03.18.11 / Privacy- the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others

So, have you ever been tagged by a friend in a Facebook photo and then had at least 10 other people ask to be your friend? Did you know who those people were? If you didn’t did you still accept … Read more »

06.16.09 / One Person Equals One Broadcaster

In the wake of the hotly-contested presidential election in Iran, internet social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are emerging as the primary—if not only—means of disseminating information in a country in which the government has the power to censor … Read more »

04.14.09 / Widgetize Your Life with Bebo’s Lifestory

Digitizing your life just became more interesting with Bebo’s Lifestory, a new feature that Rafe Needleman, writing for CNet News, says “makes a fancy widget out of your life.” Lifestory, one of the flashier new Bebo features, is more or … Read more »

03.31.09 / Facebook, Adobe Announce Partnership

Facebook and Adobe have announced a partnership to bring Facebook developers support for the ActionScript® 3.0 Client Library on the Facebook platform.  The partnership announcement comes a day after it was announced that social networking rival MySpace had forged a … Read more »

03.31.09 / Rethinking Free in a Down Economy

Not so long ago, you could have collected enough of those “Try AOL for Free” installation disks to shoot skeet—for free—for the rest of your life.  The move may have backfired for AOL, but in the Great Recession of 2008-2009, … Read more »