Facebook News: 2010/11

Nov 30, 2010

Gran Turismo 5 Giveaway: ‘Like’ AutoGuide on Facebook for Your Chance to Win

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2010/11/gran-turismo-5-giveaway-like-autoguide-on-facebook-for-your-chance-to-win.html

AutoGuide.com is giving you the chance to own THE driving simulation game. That's right, with GT5 having just launched, AutoGuide has obtained two copies

Facebook Now Worth $50 Billion In Secondary Trading

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/29/facebook-now-worth-50-billion-in-secondary-trading/

It was just a few weeks ago that Accel Partners sold off around half a billion dollars of Facebook shares at a company valuation of $35 billion. If you thought that was insane, and a lot of commenters did, then don't read the rest of this post. You'll only get more jealous.

Around $40 million changed hands last week in a Facebook share auction held by SecondMarket. The end price per share was $20.76, and about 1.9 million shares were bought and sold. And based on there being around 2.5 billion shares outstanding after a 5-1 stock split earlier this year, that values Facebook at around $50 billion. As far as we know, this is an all time high.

The email sent out to auction participants is below. A new auction is beginning shortly. We've reached out to SecondMarket for comment.

Former President George W. Bush, Live At Facebook HQ [Video]

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/29/facebook-bush-facebush/

Looks like President Obama isn't the only one resorting to Facebook as a way to reach constituents. In a first for an American President past or present, former President George W. Bush will hold a discussion and Q&A live from Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto in about 20 minutes.
Bush will be talking to Facebook employees about his new book Decision Points, and those of us not employed by Facebook will have the opportunity to watch it on the Livestream above.

George Bush Praises Obama on Facebook Webcast

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/29/george-w-bush-facebook-webcast_n_789569.html

Zuckerberg asked Bush why he decided to appear on Facebook. Bush quipped: "Because you've got a lot of people paying attention to us, and I'm trying to sell books."

Will FaceBook add Skype Video Chat Functionality Within the Site?

http://www.crazytechnews.com/will-facebook-add-skype-video-chat-functionality-within-the-site.html

Though Skype unveiled a robust kind of Facebook integration last month, yet there were speculations that Facebook would add Skype video chat functionality in its social network.

Nov 29, 2010

Palin Strikes Back At NK Gaffe Via Facebook

http://www.therightperspective.org/2010/11/28/palin-strikes-back-at-nk-gaffe-via-facebook/

Former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has struck back at media criticism over a radio blooper she made last week with an article posted on her Facebook account.

10 Ways to Get Unfriended on Facebook

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22056/107456-ten-ways-unfriended-facebook

Here are ten surefire ways to get unfriended on Facebook

FT.com / Media - China’s Tencent eyes Facebook’s success

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4a1d7ca2-fb1f-11df-b576-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F4a1d7ca2-fb1f-11df-b576-00144feab49a.html&_i_referer=

Group testing about 10 third-party applications

Nov 28, 2010

5 Key Facebook Factors That Marketers Love

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2010/11/19/5-key-facebook-factors-that-marketers-love/

It was only 2 years ago when I first registered with Facebook and found friends from college and colleagues that I hadnt seen in over 20 years. I think this feature of Facebook to almost magically reconnect you with old classmates after so long is what amazes and surprises people about this social media network.
Connection with the past and Facebooks other features have continued to provide many other motivations for people to stay signed on and and join up with its numbers growing from 132 million in June 2008 to an estimated 550 million today.
So what are the 5 key factors th

Girl killed herself, after her dad posted this to her wall? No, a new spin on a Facebook scam | Naked Security

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/09/24/girl-killed-dad-posted-wall-spin-facebook-scam/

For a few days we've been monitoring a new spin on a Facebook scam, that claims a girl killed herself on Christmas Eve after her dad posted a message on her wall.

5 Facebook profile pics that make you look like a tool

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/24/facebook.profile.shots.netiquette/index.html

If a Facebook picture is worth a thousand words, we're pretty sure there's one word in the lexicon you'd be loath to have associated with you: tool.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=463364218434

Sarah Palin wrote a note titled A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States. Read the full text here.

Nov 27, 2010

Who's Afraid of Apple, Google, Facebook?

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2010/tc20101126_023905.htm

Timothy Wu says we should be alarmed by the monopoly powers accumulated by Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, and eBay. Why he's wrong.

Nov 26, 2010

Porsche Facebook Page Gets One Million Fans

http://www.autoslug.com/porsche-facebook-page-gets-one-million-fans.html

Currently, the official Porsche Facebook page has more than one million fans on it which shows the affection of people across the world for Porsche cars.

Palin fires back on Facebook with list of Obama gaffes

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/11/palin-fires-back-on-facebook-w.html

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has responded to criticism surrounding a recent gaffe when she said the United States must "stand with our North Korean allies" by listing some of President Obama's misstatements.

Tim Berners-Lee Calls Facebook a Walled Garden - Is That Fair?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tim_berners-lee_says_facebook_is_a_walled_garden.php

This week the Web's inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, published an article in Scientific American promoting open standards and net neutrality. In the article, he takes aim at Facebook ...

Facebook Email: Clearly a Good Choice (Video)

http://www.visualnews.com/2010/11/22/facebook-email-clearly-a-good-choice/

The news has already broken about the new and revolutionary Facebook email, aka Messages, but the other day I saw a tweet from Randi Zuckerberg that mentioned a superb video she worked on.

Today’s Lesson: Make Facebook Angry, And They’ll Censor You Into Oblivion

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/facebook-censorship/

Facebook is well on its way to becoming the most popular way that people share links, photos, and other content with their friends. For many sites it's becoming a powerful new driver of traffic — get people to 'Like' your stuff, and Facebook's network effects will expose it to dozens of their friends.

Just make sure not to do something that might make Facebook angry. Otherwise it might nuke every link to your site, choking off this river of traffic that you've worked so hard to build.

That's the message Facebook sent today with its censorship of links to Lamebook, a humor site that posts lewd conversations spotted on the social network.

SkyFire 3.0 For Android Finds A Friend In Facebook

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/11/23/skyfire-3-0-for-android-finds-a-friend-in-facebook/

Given the underwhelming past few years in Flock's history and the seemingly lukewarm post-launch response to RockMelt, I'm not entirely convinced that anyone ...

Anti-Facebook Pastor Taking Leave After Three-Way Revelation | TPMMuckraker

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/anti-facebook_pastor_taking_leave_after_three-way.php

Rev. Cedric Miller, the New Jersey pastor who made headlines for denouncing Facebook as a vehicle for infidelity and then made other headlines for having his own complicated sexual history outside the bonds of marriage, is "taking some time off," he told the Associated Press.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Farmville-Free-Secrets/113929775339821

Farmville Free Secrets Fan Page

Teardown: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg CIO.com

http://www.cio.com/article/639114/CIO.com_Teardown_Facebook_CEO_Mark_Zuckerberg

This will be less painful than the movie. We promise.

Think Social Media | Facebook, Twitter and Wordpress services | thinksocialmedia.co.nz

http://thinksocialmedia.co.nz/thinksocialmedia-co-nz-has-your-social-media-solutions

Think Social Media for increasing numbers of Fans and Followers, facebook landing pages, tabs, custom marketing pages, twitter backgrounds and more

Dueling studies: do Facebook and Twitter help or hurt students?

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/dueling-studies-do-facebook-and-twitter-help-or-hurt-students/

Two different studies have concluded opposite results about social networking sites. Teachers believe they harm students, while another study points out that Twitter can increase student engagement.

Lionside scores $1.6M to make Facebook games for sports fans

http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/19/lionside-scores-1-6m-to-make-facebook-games-for-sports-fans-2/

Lionside, a developer of social sports games, has raised $1.6 million in a first round of funding,according to a filing with the SEC.
Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based startup launched its first Facebook game, called Lionside Football,in September. The game allows soccer fans to compete on behalf of their favorite team.
Lionside, formerly called Popside, is backed by Ram Shriram ofSherpalo Ventures and angel investorRon Conway.
Companies: Facebook, Lionside, Sherpalo Ventures
People: Ram Shriram, Ron Conway