Officially assigned to the social network, the application was filed in July 2008, listing Dorsey and Stone as the intellectual property's inventors.

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On his Facebook page, Waze's Mr. Bardin recently praised Facebook's Home, the social network's new Android application, and posted a promotional photo of the application that prominently displays the Waze app icon on a smartphone screen.

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Professional social network LinkedIn recently canned its HTML5-based mobile application.

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This mobile application provides a location-enabled, social network exclusively for the military veteran community.

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Facebook has put a lot of weight behind Facebook Connect, which gives developers and application-makers the ability to access the social network and some of its features off the website.

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Three days later, the same hacker exposed a vulnerability in an application called iLike that allows users to list favorite music tracks on the social network Ning.

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The patent application, filed back in late-2009, describes a location-based social network that helps users discover people in their vicinity, based on common interests like books, movies, and, naturally, music.

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The developers of an application called Vintage Camera say Facebook has unjustly banned users from uploading their photos to the social network.

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The social network will allow students to track the curriculum's calendar and see when their peers complete major steps in the application process.

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