As Chris Matyszczyk at CNet points out, if ranking hotness were a crime, Mark Zuckerberg might have been arrested before he could get Facebook up and running.
Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo.
Perhaps as Generation Facebook grows up, the virtual parent-child relationship will sort itself out.
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Most Facebook applications up until now have been pretty awful, with the exception of games.
And so basically Facebook sets up an environment where your friends do the persuading to get you to post a picture.
With Facebook gearing up for its own megabucks floatation, Rovio has been caught up in the ongoing debate about funny money.
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Instead Facebook opened up the platform to companies like MOG and Rdio.
As Facebook grows up, brands will inevitably face some growing pains as they work to talk to consumers on the social network.
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Facebook has up until now focused on e-commerce and payments through virtual goods, with social games being the large part of that.
But Facebook offered up an even more obvious application - marketing.
The news feed is the first, and sometimes only, page people see when they log on to the Facebook website or fire up a Facebook mobile app.
You might only open your Facebook page up to your friends, but your friends can still open them up to government, a federal judge has ruled.
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At the same time, Facebook ramped up its mobile-ad offerings.
Facebook snapped up Instagram, the photo-sharing app, in April.
The real shift happened though during the back-to-school push, where Facebook ended up catapulting to the top five traffic drivers for big companies like Best Buy and Wal Mart.
Today, two months after offering app install ads for mobile devices to a select group of app developers and their marketing partners, Facebook opened up the ads to anyone.
If users actually take to Home, Facebook has come up with an excellent way to get people to have Facebook running on their phones all the time.
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The Open Compute Project storage page also references Fusion-IO PCIe storage cards with up to 3.2 TB of storage capacity, which are used by Facebook to speed up overall storage system performance.
Currently, 18 percent of time spent on a mobile phone is taken up by Facebook, while 32 percent is taken up by games.
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Facebook friends show up on the edge of the browser for quick chats, while updates from Twitter and Facebook are easily reachable on the other side of the browser.
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's Android software and present Facebook status updates, messages and other content on the home screen, rather than making the user fire up Facebook's app.
And when I looked up Facebook Home online to try to find out just what it was, the first search results that came up were from users sharing how to disable it.
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When users send an e-mail to your Facebook.com address, it pops up in your Facebook inbox.
For the last few quarters, Facebook has stepped up its efforts to improve its mobile monetization.
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Would you give up Facebook to hang out in a virtual space with your friends?
If you want to have social engagement with your friends, you open up Facebook.
Over time, however, I have lost confidence that Facebook culturally is up to the task.
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