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Russian pullout from Georgia was ‘thanks to Facebook group’ (NewsBiscuit)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:15:17 GMT

Russian withdrawal from Georgia due to ‘criticism on Facebook’ Political analysts were still reeling last night following the disclosure by sources within the Kremlin that Russia had only ‘buckled under pressure’ when reviewing group membership statistics on the social networking website Facebook.

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Home Design on Facebook (Apartment Therapy - San Francisco)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:47:45 GMT

We're a bit of a late adopter when it comes to social media; even our nearly 50-year-old boss had a Facebook profile long before we did. But though we have a hard time remembering to check for updates

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Facebook pokes 100 million users (CNET.co.uk)

feedback@cnet.co.uk (Caroline McCarthy) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:38:02 GMT

The social network's founder Mark Zuckerberg announced in his status message that his site has passed 100 million active users, meaning it's rapidly catching MySpace

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Facebook doesn’t really support IE6 (as days pass by)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:33:41 GMT

Blimey. I didn’t realise that Facebook are trending down support for IE6. The “new look” is disabled, and if you use the old look you get a big message complaining about your browser choice: Two interesting things here: first, they recommend that you try another browser, and give a list of Firefox, Safari, and Flock as [...]

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Top Hollywood writer to create Facebook movie, admits “I honestly don’t know how this works” (VentureBeat)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:37:02 GMT

Aaron Sorkin has created gripping movies like A Few Good Men, and television shows like The West Wing. Now, he’s going to write a story about the creation of Facebook. Sony’s bankrolling the feature film, with Scott Rudin producing it. Here’s the thing. I’m worried that Sorkin is going to write a movie based [...]

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Become an Olbermann Watch Fan on Facebook - NEW (Olbermann Watch)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:12:23 GMT

Facebookers rejoice! Olbermann Watch is now on Facebook. Click the "find us on facebook" image and become a FAN of Olbermann Watch. We are going to need some fans based on the numbers for the "Keith Olbermann" fan groups (there are several) on Facebook. They have a few thousand members and we just got started so we've got a long way to go You can do your part and "fan"...

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Facebook: The Movie (JoBlo)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:20:40 GMT

It was only a matter of time before someone made a movie about the social networking phenomenon that is Facebook but most of us probably didn't expect that someone to be…Aaron Sorkin. That's right, uncovered Sorkin's recently created where he drops this little nugget: "I've just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a good...

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Facebook Movie (Jake Weird)

telserwork@yahoo.es (Kendra) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:46:00 GMT

"Aaron Sorkin, a man whose discomfort with the Internet goes way, way back to the days he got angry at the Television Without Pity message boards, is writing a movie about the founding of Facebook. Sorkin has created a Facebook group for "Aaron Sorkin & the Facebook Movie" on which Sorkin (or is it his assistant') (or is it someone pretending to be his assistant') writes: I've...

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Facebook Hits 100 Million Users (Balanced News Blog)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:56:09 GMT

Fast growing social network Facebook has hit the 100 million users mark, according to a statement today by Dave Morin , the company's Senior Platform Manager.

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Scrabulous game disappears from Facebook UK website (BBC News)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:43:41 GMT

A spokesman for Facebook told Newsbeat: "As a result of a complaint filed by Mattel, the copyright and trademark holder of Scrabble everywhere outside the US and Canada, against the developers of Scrabulous, Facebook has restricted access to Scrabulous to users in all countries except India."

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Aaron Sorkin Is Writing a Facebook Movie (Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:27:06 GMT

One of the most popular social-networking sites on the Internet is about to get its very own movie. 's Vulture section has confirmed that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is currently writing a movie about the inception of Facebook.In preperation for this task, Sorkin has created his very own (you have to add him as a "Friend" to view the full page) and he has also created a on the site, in which he...

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Facebook blocks Scrabulous worldwide (TechDigest)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:19:00 GMT

In a not-entirely-unexpected development of the story of the grim fate of Scrabulous , Facebook have blocked the Scrabble-clone application in every country except India. Mattel, who own the rights to Scrabble outside of North America, formally demanded the block due to copyright concerns...

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Scrabulous removed from Facebook (The Guardian)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:24:54 GMT

Facebook users in the UK have finally lost access to Scrabulous, the unofficial version of the Scrabble word game, after a formal complaint by the rights holder Mattel. Scrabulous has built a userbase of more than 600,000 globally on the social networking site, but was closed to Facebook users in the US and Canada after a similar rights claim by Hasbro, the North American Scrabble rights...

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Yoda name stops woman joining Facebook (NewsLite)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:06:20 GMT

A Japanese woman called Yoda claims she was stopped from joining Facebook, because she has a name from a galaxy far far away (well Japan.) Hiroko Yoda said that every time she tried to joint the site she was confronted with an error message. The force was not with her. Suspecting the problem might be her Star Wars featured name, she tried spelling it wrong and sure enought she was allowed to...

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Skyscanner tries one method of pushing search results into Facebook (Travolution Blog)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Came across a quirky feature on the new Skyscanner site this morning when, inevitably, we were looking at Ryanair fares on other websites. Underneath the search results there is a small Facebook logo titled "Brag about this flight on Facebook". Click on the logo and, if you are logged into the ominpresent social network, a new window appears in Facebook with a message already set...

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'Facebook: The Movie': Now, who should play Mark Zuckerberg? (Cnet)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:55:00 GMT

August 27, 2008 8:55 AM PDT 'Facebook: The Movie': Now, who should play Mark Zuckerberg?Posted by (Credit: Facebook)If on Facebook is to be believed, entertainment stalwart Aaron Sorkin--creator of The West Wing and A Few Good Men--is working on penning a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about the origins of Facebook. Someone claiming to be Sorkin's...

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Creator of Facebook's most revenue-rich app accused of stealing trade secrets [David Maestri] (Valleywag)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:40:00 GMT

David Maestri created Facebook's most successful widget, Mob Wars, but now he's in legal trouble because he developed and launched the app while working for the company that would become the Social... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Facebook Spam Getting Worse? (Silicon Alley Insider)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:58:29 GMT

We're continuing to hear anecdotal evidence of new spam/virus outbreaks at Facebook, something the NYT picks up on as well : Facebook acknowledges that it has been under attack but suggested the problems are largely under control. 'Over the past few days, we have received reports from users of spam and phishing attacks,' the company said in a statement. 'We have also detected and contained...

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Hackers attack Facebook (International Herald Tribune)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:39:54 GMT

On the Internet, popularity often draws the attention of hackers. So it is not surprising that Facebook has become the target of a spate of attacks.

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Facebook, the Movie (Fimoculous.com)

rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Aaron Sorkin is writing a movie about Facebook .

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