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The Structure of Your Facebook Neighborhood Will Identify Your Romantic
Feb 20, 2014Even if you're not shouting it from the housetops, there's a good chance the structure of your Facebook neighborhood will identify your romantic partner. From a map of Facebook friends, a computer algorithm developed by Jon Kleinberg, the ...
Tags: Facebook, Consumer Electronics, Service
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Facebook Is Removing a Privacy Feature That Enables Users to Remain Hidden From Searches
Oct 12, 2013Facebook is removing a privacy feature that enables users to remain hidden from searches. Elimination of the "Who can look up your Timeline by name?" setting means Facebook users will no longer have any control of who can look up their ...
Tags: Computer Products, Facebook
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Social Network Is Adding Restaurant Reservations and Movie Show Times to The Facebook APP
Aug 16, 2013Facebook doesn't want to be just a place for friends anymore. As part of its quest for mobile and global domination, the social network is adding restaurant reservations and movie show times to the Facebook app. Now Facebook's mobile ...
Tags: Facebook, Mobile, phone, Computer Products
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The Company's Servers Must Assemble Data for Users Better Visits The Social Networking
Jun 27, 2013Each time any one of the billion Facebook users visits the social networking site,the company's servers must assemble data--user posts,likes,shares,images--from hundreds or even thousands of different servers around the globe.The page must ...
Tags: Facebook, social networking, IDG, TAO API
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Facebook User Has 342 Friends and Teenagers Tend to Misreport The Relationship as Married
May 2, 2013The average Facebook user has 342 friends and teenage girls and boys tend to misreport their relationship status as married, according to an analysis of Facebook data by Wolfram Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram analyzed Facebook ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products
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Ever Have a Random Encounter with a Co-Worker in Your Office That Resulted in a Idea?
Apr 7, 2013Ever have a random encounter with a co-worker in your office (no, not that kind…we’re pretty sure there’s a company policy against those sorts of shenanigans) that resulted in a great idea? Maybe a conversation about a ...
Tags: Office Furniture, Furniture
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Format of News Feeds on Home Pages Is Being Revamped to Get Rid of Clutter, Facebook Said
Mar 8, 2013The format of news feeds on home pages is being revamped to get rid of clutter and present "bright, beautiful" stories whether they are insights from friends or trending news of the day, Facebook said. "I think there is a special place in ...
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Facebook Has Patched a Serious Vulnerability
Feb 26, 2013Facebook has patched a serious vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to easily gain access to private user account data and control accounts by tricking users into opening specifically crafted links, a Web application security ...
Tags: Facebook, user account data, company news
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Some of Facebook's Users Got Burned out on The Site or Grew Tired of Their Friends'"Drama"
Feb 5, 2013Facebook makes it easy to connect with people online,but some of its users say they got burned out on the site or grew tired of their friends'"drama,"a new survey shows. More than a quarter,or 28 percent,of those quizzed in a recent Pew ...
Tags: Facebook User, Back Usage, Computer Products
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Facebook Yesterday Unveiled Its Social Graph Feature Dubbed Graph Search
Jan 17, 2013Facebook yesterday unveiled its social graph feature dubbed Graph Search, which allows people to use the network as a search engine to find people, photos, places and interests. Further reading Facebook, Google attack MEP report ...
Tags: Facebook, social graph, Graph Search, network
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Firms May Have to Significantly Rein in Their Use Personal Data
Jan 10, 2013Firms such as Facebook and Google may have to significantly rein in their use personal data if European Union lawmakers get the go-ahead to give users more control over their data. In a report seen by Reuters, Jan Philipp Albrecht, a ...
Tags: Facebook, Google, personal data, data control, data protection
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Facebook Appears to Be Losing Users in The U.S. and Other Major Markets
Dec 25, 2012Facebook appears to be losing users in the U.S. and other major markets, though its user base in parts of Asia is growing, according to an investment company report. Facebook saw its U.S. user base drop by 0.7% over the past three months ...
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Facebook's Store of Data About Its Users Holds Some Surprises
Dec 21, 2012Facebook's store of data about its users holds some surprises, and not just in the sheer quantity of data it is sitting on. Among the surprises it held for me was SBupsk. One of 47 topics about which Facebook thinks I am interested in ...
Tags: Facebook, store of data, SBupsk, personal data disclosures
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Facebook Is Tweaking Its Development Platform to Communicate Directly with Their Users
Dec 21, 2012Facebook is tweaking its development platform to allow third-party applications to communicate directly with their users by sending notifications to their profiles. A new Notifications API (application programming interface), now in beta ...
Tags: Facebook, development platform, applications, notifications, profiles
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Data Protection Agency Plan to Launch an Investigation Into Facebook's Facial Recognition
Dec 20, 2012The Norwegian Data Protection Agency is planning to launch an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition feature this fall, a spokesman said on Monday. Last year, Facebook added the ability to use facial recognition technology to ...
Tags: Norway, Data Protection Agency, Facebook, facial recognition feature