According to Techcrunch, Facebook’s growth and the costs associated with it will soon require the company to go back to its investors for money. The earlier investors had hoped that, by now, Facebook would have already gone public or at least, be on the road to an IPO. Alas, the financial crisis beat them to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 15, 2008
I live in Amsterdam, everyone should know that by looking at my Facebook profile. Yet, Facebook has inserted this ad for Blockbuster in my news feed. Totally irrelevant to me. This is nothing more than SPAM. In a few months, my news feed will be clogged with utterly useless ads. How do I opt out [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 12, 2008
Think all those Facebook widgets are so cool? Watch out for this one which installs the Zango adware / spyware, says Fortinet: Fortinet Global Security Research Team discovered a malicious Facebook Widget (officially, a “Platform Application”) actively spreading on the social networking site which ultimately prompts users to install the infamous “Zango” adware/spyware. Click here [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 30, 2007
Om Malik wrote in this blog about a number of people are turning away from Facebook because it wastes a lot of time (and by implication, does not yield the appropriate return): We are not using the privacy settings of Facebook, and are too polite to say no to invitations from people who want to friend [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 14, 2007
Here I am again, this time on Facebook, typing in the same details I had typed in at Friendster, Orkut, Tribe and MySpace. I could have done it my sleep, answering the same inane questions about my favorite TV shows, movies, books, hobbies, and interests. So I have to tell yet another social network that [...]
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Monday, November 3, 2008
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