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Facebook today announces the relaunch of its Publisher tool; the photo, video and status updating field available to you above your news stream and profile pages. Up until now, you have only been able to share content amongst your Facebook friends. Today, that changes with the release of an option called “who do you want [...]

Today, Facebook officially confirmed the offer of $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies and their acceptance. The deal will see Facebook give up  1.96 percent of the company, valuing the social network at $10 billion. The company also has plans to purchase an additional $100 million in common stock, a move that will help help Facebook [...]

Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages. Web companies large and small are embracing this stream. It is not just Twitter. It is Facebook and [...]

Facebook’s battle with Twitter just got more interesting. Two months after its homepage redesign, Facebook’s iPhone application has caught up to the web version, and now features real-time updates. This is actually a much bigger deal than it sounds. Facebook is clearly looking to take on Twitter with its recent focus on realtime and the [...]

..and now we are conversing. Social media is finally taking off in the UK. eMarketer estimates that 39% of UK Internet users—more than 15.4 million people—will use social networks at least once per month in 2009. And growth will continue, though at slightly slower rates after 2010. By 2013, the social networking population in the [...]