Facebook News Summary - Issue #13

Posted by Jon Beattie April 18th, 2008

Facebook at Work - Essential for Job Applicants

A study in Australia has found that almost half would refuse a job if they were not allowed access to Facebook at work.
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New Legal Woes for Facebook Founder

A former friend of Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is legally challenging the right to the name Facebook.
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More Claims of Facebook Fatigue from Time

How quickly the mainstream media turns!
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Blog from Facebook

Six Apart, the makers of blog platforms TypePad and Live Journal, have created BlogIt. The program, which is used within Facebook, supports not only Six Apart’s platforms, but also many others, including Blogger, LiveJournal, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, Vox, WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
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Blockbuster Faces Legal Action over Facebook Beacon

Blockbuster Video was one of the first advertisers to participate in the controversial Facebook Beacon program, launched last year. This is not great news for Facebook, the last thing they need is more reasons for advertisers to get spooked about this idea.
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New Mini Feed Offers Better Integration with Other Sites

You can now import links into your Mini Feed from other popular sites, creating more of a "lifestream". This is probably long overdue. You can import from Flickr, Picassa, Yelp, Digg, and del.icio.us.

Go to your Profile page in Facebook and click on the Import link:
Facebook Mini Feed - Import

Click on the logo to enter your user information from those sites:
Facebook Mini Feed Import Options

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Facebook Launches Lexicon

Facebook has launched a new service similar in concept to Google Trends, called Lexicon. This allows you to see the popularity of keywords across Wall Posts. You can separate keywords with a comma to get a comparison chart, for example, clinton vs obama.
Facebook Lexicon
Hours of fun.
Facebook Lexicon

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Comments

  1. Nivin Sewpershad April 19th, 2:33 pm

    BlogIt looks like a really interesting app, it will be interesting to see the implications in time to come.

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