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Facebook Aiming To Trademark 'Face'

Several blogs noticed a report about Facebook who's busy on trademarking the word "face". Facebook now has six months to show that it uses the trademark, or it can file for an extension for up to 36 months. Once that's done, the trademark can be approved or rejected. Read More

Facebook's New Messaging System

Facebook introduced a three-pronged system that strives to not necessarily change the way we communicate but to make it more efficient, more personal and definitely simpler. They developed a so called modern day messaging system that’s much simpler, like SMS or IM.

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Twitter Connects With Apple’s Ping Music Social Network

You can now connect your Twitter account to work together with your Apple’s Ping social network. It's easier for you to share your music discoveries while in iTunes and using Ping to your Twitter followers. It contains previews of songs and links to purchase them from iTunes. When you receive a tweet sent via Ping, you will see the song or album in Twitter’s details pane.

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Chrome Extension: Facebook Disconnect

A new extension, called Facebook Disconnect, blocks contact between your browser and Facebook's servers when you're browsing the regular Web. Facebook Disconnect will prevent the sending of data back to Facebook across the one million sites that use the Facebook Connect service.

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Popular Facebook Apps Gather User ID

If you use Facebook but don't want your personal information leaked all over the Web, you had better make sure you don't use any of Facebook's most popular apps. Many apps on Facebook transmit varying amounts of identifying information to their own personal ad servers, even in cases when users' profiles were set to completely private.

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Export your Data from Facebook with Data Downloader

Among the three new features  introduced by Facebook last week, one of the last ones to make it to the hands of users was the personal data downloader. It's also one of the most interesting of the bunch, since it effectively gives users an escape hatch to grab everything they've ever uploaded to Facebook and take it elsewhere.

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Skype now available for Android phones

Skype calling is now available as a free download on Android-based devices, the Internet telephony company announced today. The Skype for Android software allows users to make calls to Skype accounts, mobile phones, or landlines.

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Twitter now selling space for 'promoted accounts'

In an attempt to make money from more parts of its service, Twitter is rolling out a new form of advertising called "promoted accounts."

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Facebook Denies Phone Rumors

Is Facebook attempting to be the new Google? It might be, if the latest rumors are to believed. Mobile developers at Facebook are said to be working on a secret project, and that project may be a Facebook phone—despite the company's denial.

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Man Claims to Own 84 Percent of Facebook

Paul D. Ceglia of Wellsville, N.Y., claims in a lawsuit that he entered into a contract with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 to design and develop a Web site that would ultimately become the social-networking giant.

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