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Facebook announced through a blog post that a new feature will open user profiles to search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Philip Fung, a Facebook engineer, said that “the public search listing contains less information than someone could find right after signing up anyway, so we’re not exposing any new information, and you have complete control over your public search listing.”
The move is seen to boost trafic and advertising revenues.
Originally posted on September 5, 2007 @ 12:55 pm
While Mark Zuckerberg is still facing charges made by three of his Harvard classmates who claim to be the original founders of the ever controversial Facebook, another claimant makes himself known.
Aaron Greenspan, 24, also a Harvard classmate, claims he’s the real founder of the billion dollar social network, presenting email messages, including ones that have Zuckerberg’s responses, to strengthen his claim.
NY Times reports that six months before Facebook and ConnectU were launched, Greenspan created an online service entitled houseSYSTEM which thousands of Harvard students used for school-related purposes. In Greenspan’s houseSYSTEM, “the Face Book” is a feature that allows users to locate other students within the network. Zuckerberg was one of the users. Four months later, Zuckerburg launches “thefacebook.com”
While Greenspan is not pressing financial charges, he wasn’t at peace with how things turned out. Hence, as a last word, he’s written a 306-page unpublished autobiography entitled “Authoritas: One Student’s Harvard Admissions” which documents the story behind his “search for justice”.
“This book is partly a search for justice,†he wrote in the introduction of Authoritas. “You don’t write an autobiography in your early 20s unless there’s something you need to get off your chest.â€
Zuckerberg was reported to be not available for an interview, saying he was not sure how to respond.
Originally posted on September 4, 2007 @ 4:46 am
Facebook users now have the ability to customize their own personal Internet TV viewing experience with Pyro.TV. Vibe Solutions Group announced that its innovative Pyro.TV video channel service has been integrated with the Facebook.
With Pyro.TV, Facebook users can personalize their own channel line-up and share it with others through their Facebook profile. Unlike other online video platforms, content is constantly updated for the most up-to-date videos and no additional download is necessary.
Facebook users get a full-functioning version of Pyro.TV that is completely integrated into their Facebook profile as an application. With Pyro.TV, Facebook users create their own personal Internet TV with custom channel line-up, called My Channels. Facebook users can also display and promote their My Channels through a multi-channel video player, embedded in their Facebook profile.
Originally posted on August 28, 2007 @ 10:35 am
CareerBuilder.com, the U.S.’s largest online job site, announced it is now offering job and internship matching applications on Facebook Platform. Its smart technology scans the Facebook user’s profile for information such as major in school, hometown and network and then matches it with the most relevant jobs available in its database of over 1.5 million.
CBcampus.com, CareerBuilder.com’s college job and internship search site, also provides an internship matching application for college
students who aren’t quite ready for a full-time, permanent position.
“Building a job matching application on Facebook Platform enables CareerBuilder to interface with a large, highly interactive community dominated by users who are choosing and building career paths. We are making the job search process easier and more convenient for Facebook users while providing employers with a unique way to market their job openings,” said CareerBuilder.com Consumer Marketing Vice President Richard Castellini.
Originally posted on August 28, 2007 @ 11:58 pm
comScore released a study of UK traffic in July to a selection of leading social networking sites.
UK property Bebo.com became the most visited social networking site from within the UK in July, attracting 10.6 million unique visitors, an increase of 63 percent over the start of the year. It was closely followed by social networking behemoth Myspace.com, which enjoyed a 25 percent increase in traffic over the same time period, to reach 10.1 million unique visitors in July.
The fastest growing social networking site in terms of UK based unique visitors was Facebook.com, which grew 366 percent since the start of the year to attract an audience of 7.6 million unique visitors in July 2007.
Other comparable social networking sites also experienced growth over the same time period. HI5.com increased its UK based traffic by 36 percent to 1.9 million unique visitors, while Faceparty.com grew 9 percent to 1.7 million.
Originally posted on August 17, 2007 @ 1:05 pm