Voting has been underway on Facebook’s official sports page. Since Friday, people have been able to vote on commercials scheduled to air during Super Bowl XLV. The ad that receives the most “likes” by Thursday, February 10th, will become 2011′s Facebook Replay winner. This is the first time the social network has been apart of [...]
Facebook is moving out of its current office complex in Palo Alto and relocating to the former campus of Sun Microsystems in San Mateo. Facebook has sent media outlets an invite to a press conference Tuesday, February 8, where it will it discuss its new headquarters. The event will be taking place at 1701 Laurel [...]
How does a unknown dating site launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data from Facebook. At lease this was the approach taken by a new site called Lovely-Faces.com this week. Profiles with names, locations and photos were “scraped” from publicly accessible Facebook pages. The site then categorized the unwitting [...]
It was the meeting many thought would never happen. The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg finally came face-to-face with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on live television. Eisenberg was hosting SNL and in the midst of a rambling opening monologue when he was joined on stage by comedian Andy Samberg. The camera soon cut backstage, where [...]
Generation X was first introduced to computers in the classroom, one of the first computer games most of them played throughout the United States was “The Oregon Trail.” Premiering in 1971, it was then sold to the school system as an educationally valuable computer game that can teach good values to children. “The Oregon Trail” [...]