Facebook is, as you’ll know, the most popular social network in the world. It overtook MySpace, which is now seeing a steady decline, with even the face of the company (Tom) having started ignoring his account. Facebook’s growth is just as steady as MySpace’s decline, and now, the website ranks as the second most visited [...]

Microsoft has announced that official connectors, built by MySpace and Facebook for Outlook Social Connector, will be available for download in the first of half of this year.
The software giant also announced the immediate availability of the LinkedIn Outlook Social Connector that was first demonstrated in November 2009. The download is now live and allows LinkedIn [...]

Yesterday evening a posting on the Facebook Developer Blog announced support for the XMPP protocol (also known as ‘Jabber’) within Facebook chat. This addition means that users of Facebook are able to connect with their friends instantly using a client such as Pidgin or Adium, without having to load the full Facebook page. Facebook chat currently [...]

As Neowin reported back in January, Facebook was testing their new design with a selected group of users.  Today, Facebook has begun rolling out their new design to all 350 million users.  The changes bring a new design to the end user, re-arranging their original layout and adding new features on the main news feed.
One [...]

Hours ago, Facebook flicked the switch on another redesign of its home page. It was a pretty significant change when compared to their previous redesigns, though it seems that it was just the tip of the iceberg – as TechCrunch reported, the social networking company is rumored to be currently developing a fully featured webmail [...]

Microsoft confirmed today that it had reached a mutual decision with Facebook, allowing the social network to take over responsibility for selling display advertisements on its own site.
In October 2007 Microsoft announced a $240 million investment in Facebook for a roughly 1.6 percent stake in the Web phenomenon. The deal also expanded to selling advertising. [...]

Yesterday, Neowin reported on a press release from Sophos security that shows a significant rise in network attacks on Facebook and Twitter. This press release suggested that developers of social networks must take initiative to ensure the safety of their users. One day after this report was released, PC World reports that Twitter reset a [...]

It’s pretty much common knowledge that speed is the key aspect to the Internet. If a website isn’t fast, chances are, people won’t use it. Slow Internet connections will do nothing but frustrate users, as well as damaging companies. Google is a company that is intent on increasing speed, even by tiny amounts, in order [...]

Want to generate more exposure, and thereore more fans, for your Facebook fan page? Check out the news from Facebook yesterday on a new widget they’ve made available for Fan Pages:
As a Facebook Page owner, you can implement the Fan Box widget on your own website to gain more fans and share your Facebook updates. [...]

Facebook Fan Pages are a great tool for solopreneurs to use for marketing themselves online. They allow you to make personal connections, on a very extended basis. You can create one on one conversations with many people at a time. Hopefully you’ve already set one up for yourself.
Here are some more tips for optimizing your [...]