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Facebook has been trumpeting the fact that Farmville, the most popular game on its site, has more users than Twitter, with 69 million playing over a month and 26 million playing each day. Combined with Facebook’s announcement that they have hit 350 million users, that means one out of every five people on Facebook is [...]

There is no debate that there are over 2.5 million users that support the addition of a “dislike” button to the Facebook feed. Unfortunately for those users, it’s highly unlikely that Facebook will ever add such a button, however that’s not stopping developers from coming up with creative solutions. One developer has created [...]

If Microsoft wants to be like Apple, so be it. The company should design, build and sell consumer PCs directly to customers. As Steve Jobs says, "good artists copy, great artists steal." Microsoft needs to steal Apple’s whole approach to marketing its products and managing its brand, not just copy its retail store ideas.
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Facebook has just announced that it is beginning to roll out a modified version of its homepage that incorporates the ‘Highlights’ section into the News Feed. You’ll now be able to jump between two different versions of the feed: the Live Feed, which displays your friends’ updates in real-time, and the News Feed, which displays [...]

Almost everyone likes Windows 7. It’s faster, cleaner and easier to use. But is paranormal activity wrecking the rollout?

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Social networking is definitely seeing a reshuffling of its top players.
Facebook and Twitter are in, MySpace is out, according to Experian Hitwise.
The Internet monitoring company reported last week that Facebook, the No. 1 social network in the U.S., grew its share of all the visits to social-networking sites from 19 percent in September [...]

Thousands of Facebook users who have been unable to access their accounts for nearly a week and a half now are now seeing their profiles restored–but some data related to recent profile updates may have been lost.
What happened? According to Facebook, the replacement of profiles and login screens with a "down for maintenance" notice–which appears [...]

So here you thought gaming was something to hide at work. Now comes new research to suggest that those who play online using the seven below activities actually exhibit higher productivity than those who don’t.
The research comes from Dr Brent Coker of the Department of Management and Marketing over at the University of Melbourne.  “People [...]

Two companies are taking social networking heavyweight Facebook to court over claims that Facebook’s website infringes on patents related to personal pages and establishing human relationships. Tele-Publishing Inc, a Boston-based company known for providing personals services to newspapers since the 1980s, is accusing Facebook of violating its patent on "providing a personal page." Meanwhile, Japan-based [...]

IE 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in  —  Chrome Frame boosts Microsoft browser’s JavaScript performance  —  Microsoft’s Internet Explorer zips through JavaScript nearly ten times faster than usual when Google’s new Chrome Frame plug-in is partnered with the browser, benchmark tests show.

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