Apple News | Facebook for iPhone Gets Updated With Improved Notifications UI

Apple News | Facebook for iPhone Gets Updated With Improved Notifications UI
Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends' latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go. What's New In This Version: - Improved reliability in chat and messages - Improved notifications UI - Fixed memory usage - Fixed some crashes - Walls you cannot post on no longer show the text field at the top - Restore ability to post as a page that you admin - Fixed group photos - Various Places improvements You can download Facebook from the App Store for free.

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Regarding That Facebook Phone That Still Isn’t Being Developed

Regarding That Facebook Phone That Still Isn’t Being Developed
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 06:32 AM | Blake Robinson

It’s been four days since Facebook denied rumors that a Facebook phone was in development. We still believe that the social networking giant doesn’t currently have a branded mobile device in the works, but it’s worth re-examining the situation.
TechCrunch yesterday conducted a thorough interview with Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding the rumor. A crucial part of the discussion occurs when Zuckerberg says:

“…we invest differently in different platforms depending on how big they are, and how many users are there. So, iPhone is the one we’re investing in the most now, and Android increasingly. If Windows Phone 7 takes off, then I’m sure we’ll put resources on that.

And maybe we’ll build specific apps for iPhone and Android. And then, for something that is as important as iPhone or Android, we’ll also build integration into the operating system. So for iPhone, we built in contact syncing, and for Android we integrated and did contact syncing pretty seamlessly. The question is – what could we do if we also started hacking at a deeper level, and that is a lot of the stuff that we’re thinking about.”

The statement is a concise overview of Facebook’s current approach to mobile, especially as it pertains to hardware. It outlines Facebook’s strategy to develop applications for prominent mobile platforms and, when it makes sense, work toward deeper mobile integrations for enhanced social experiences.

The story should have ended there — but, of course, it didn’t. Bloomberg decided to get involved, writing, “Facebook Inc. is working with mobile-handset manufacturer INQ Mobile Ltd. on two smartphones that may be carried by AT&T Inc., according to three people familiar with the matter.”

Bloomberg’s report was enough to make TechCrunch question its own interview with Zuckerberg. The chain reaction has sent everyone back to speculating about the Facebook phone. The thing is, Facebook has been working with INQ for a couple of years now — it’s well-known that the companies share a common investor in Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing.

When INQ Mobile released the INQ1 back in December of 2008, the level at which Facebook was integrated led many at the time to describe it as “the Facebook Phone.” Zuckerberg was even quoted in a statement from INQ saying, “We are really happy to be working with INQ to bring its customers a deeply-integrated Facebook experience on the new INQ1 handset.”

In the two years since the INQ1 was released, Facebook has made a major play for mobile audiences. According to Facebook’s stats, Facebook Mobile currently has more than 150 million mobile users accessing the site with at least 200 mobile providers working to deploy and promote Facebook Mobile products. This isn’t a surprise; by all accounts, mobile is the next big digital frontier.

Facebook may very well release a phone some day, but that day isn’t today and now isn’t the time. What we have here is some exaggerated excitement over a relationship that has been around for years. So is Facebook still working with INQ? Yes, most definitely. But Facebook and INQ continuing to work with one another doesn’t mean that they’re preparing to release a Facebook Phone anytime soon.


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Now Richer Than Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now richer than Apple CEO Steve Jobs, according to the latest Forbes 400 rankings.
This year, Zuckerberg, 26, added $4.9 billion to his fortune–vaulting to #35 on the Forbes 400 with an estimated fortune of $6.9 billion. Why the jump? Recent private equity investments in Facebook valued the firm at around $23 billion–more than triple its 2009 value of $7 billion. Illiquid private shares in secondary markets point to an even richer valuation.

Steve Jobs ranks #42 on the list with a net worth of $6.1 billion; $1 billion higher than last year.


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Trapping Your Character On FarmVille

This tutorial will show you the steps that you need to take, in order for you to trap your character in the game of FarmVille.

ALL IMAGES CAPTURED TO MAKE OUR INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS ARE THE PROPERTY OF ZYNGA GAMES

Copyright© 2009 Zynga Game Network Inc.. All rights reserved.

My Horse Stable in Farmville

FINALLY! I'm done with my Horse Stable in farmville. lolx!
Taking a snapshot of what it looks like.

Farmville addicts, pls. add me as thy neighbour. 24.7 player here and I promise
to send you gifts everyday.:)
Click on my FARM NOW!

so what do you think?

RIP Facebook Gifts

Facebook is winding down its “Gift Shop” feature, the company announced today. Facebook Gifts will stop operating on August 1, although gifts you’ve received previously will remain on your wall.

It’s a surprising move from Facebook, who stands to become a significant player in online transactions thanks to Facebook Credits. Given that gifting is a great advertisement for the benefit of making transactions on Facebook, we can only imagine that giving Gifts is wildly unpopular. Facebook Credits perhaps doesn’t need a helping hand, either: The rapid rise of Facebook games has assured the success of the Credits scheme.

If you’re into gifting on Facebook, you still have a few options: Birthday Cards and Pieces of Flair to name a couple.

(via Mashable)

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Facebook Will Add a “Panic Button” for UK Teens [via Mashable]

Facebook will help UK teens fight cyber abuse and bullying by deploying a panic button on its sites. Teens will be encouraged to click it when suspicious that they’re being targeted for abuse.

The button will actually connect the teens with resources hosted by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), an organization run in part by the UK government. Teens will be given advice and resources on dealing with potential threats on the Internet, and they may also report users who they believe are acting inappropriately toward them.

The tool will be advertised on the home pages of teenage Facebook users.

Why the Change?
A UK official joined the mother of murdered teenager Ashleigh Hall in a call for the deployment of the button on Facebook. The tool is already present on other sites, including Bebo. Facebook resisted joining them at first, claiming that it already offers reporting tools, but the BBC says that Facebook finally agreed to do it after 44 police chiefs signed a petition.

Advocates argue that integration with the well-established CEOP organization will help authorities take legal or police action more swiftly and accurately.

The button will be part of a larger application run by CEOP. We don’t have all the details yet, but we do know that there will also be a landing page with basic safety information for teenagers. Facebook already launched something similar on its own with the revamped Safety Center two months ago.

Potential Problems
Facebook rep Sophy Silver was quoted by the BBC saying that the reporting tool will act as a “viral awareness campaign” by informing your friends when something’s up too.

While we’re all for tools that help protect teenagers from sharing Ashleigh Hall’s fate, we’re concerned about the potential abuses of this tool. People will inevitably make errors when using it, and some might even abuse it as a means of harassment or humiliation against peers.

Here’s to hoping that there will be strong protections against that kind of abuse in the final product. Do you have any ideas about how Facebook and CEOP could make a system that protects teens but that isn’t ripe for abuse?


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Fish World for iPhone

Hey!
I'm playing one of my fave games in Facebook---> Fish World!

The problem is that,
it has no Facebook connect and doesn't sync in to my current profile just like Zynga's Farmville. :(

Hope you guys can do something about this.
I've seen there have been alot of request about it so please hear us.
Thank you!
















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Poker by Zynga in my i Phone

Hurray! Now I can play Poker in my iphone!!!



I'm still a newbie that's why I am so glad Zynga have released this game for mobile people like me.






I got alot of ample time to explore the game this time..



Keep it up Zynga! Create more iphone-facebook connect games and you're right on track!

How's the Farmville app by the way?

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Farmville for iPhone is down?

Is something wrong with Farmville for ipHone?
I have been trying to log in since last night but to no avail.
It just keeps showing this error.
Anyone pls?



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Farmville on my iPhone

Wooooow!
Finally, I can now play my fave game Farmville on my iphone.

This is soooo awesome!














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“FrontierVille” Already Has 5 Million Players

Apparently FarmVille meets Oregon Trail is a winning combination — Zynga’s FrontierVille game has reached five million active daily players on Facebook in less than two weeks.

FrontierVille launched on June 9 as a sort of spin-off to FarmVille, though it was developed by Zynga’s Baltimore studio — a different one than the one responsible for FarmVille. In fact, its lead designer is an esteemed strategy game designer known for his work on Civilization and Rise of Nations, according to VentureBeat.

The game adds some features and levels of complexity that its predecessor doesn’t have, such as the ability to control multiple avatars — an entire family.

The game’s huge initial growth is due in part to the way the game encourages players to invite their friends. When I signed up for the game, I was prompted to invite my Facebook friends three times in my first five minutes of play. Given the association with FarmVille (which has more than 200 million active users), it’s not a surprise that FrontierVille has spread quickly.

Note that Zynga says that five million is the number of “daily active” users, however. That’s not the same as the probably higher number of people who’ve at least signed up to begin with.


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WARNING: Facebook Clickjacking Attack Spreading Through News Feed

A new clickjacking worm is spreading through Facebook via the “Like” feature. The attack, which is said to have hit hundreds of thousands of users, uses a combination of social engineering and clickjacking to make it appear as if a user has “liked” a link.

The messages that are being used in the link text include, “LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER reads her STATUS MESSAGE,” “This man takes a picture of himself EVERYDAY for 8 YEARS!!,” “The Prom Dress That Got This Girl Suspended From School” and “This Girl Has An Interesting Way Of Eating A Banana, Check It Out!”

When a user clicks on the text that appears to be “liked” he is taken to a blank page that just has the text, “Click here to continue.” Clicking anywhere on that page will then publish the same message to that users Facebook page.

This vector is extremely similar to the Fbhole worm that spread across Facebook 10 days ago. Because users unwittingly end up recommending the offending page to their social graph, this is the type of worm that can spread extremely quickly.


Security firm Sophos has identified the linked pages as being infected with the Troj/iframe-ET worm. It doesn’t appear as if the worm does anything other than add likes to your feed, but if you’ve been infected, you’ll still want to take action.

Sophos recommends deleting any entries in your news feed related to the links and check your profile and info pages to make sure that no links or pages related to those sites have been added to your profile.


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Facebook, YouTube, Texting: Rules of the Road for Kids

 Facebook, YouTube, Texting: Rules of the Road for Kids:
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Our kids are growing up in public. Here are a few rules of the road that will help our kids make smart decisions...

Pre-Order “Toy Story 3″ Tickets on Facebook

Disney has created a new Facebook app that will let users buy tickets to see Toy Story 3 right on the site, while also inviting their friends along. The application is called Disney Tickets Together and is a brilliant example of social media synergy.



The app, which works in partnership with ticket-buying websites like Fandango.com, lets users pre-order tickets for the show and then invite others to join them. Users can also post what showing they are going to on their Facebook news feed.

This is the type of campaign that is a perfect fit for social media. Not only does the ability to buy tickets without leaving Facebook make impulse ticket buys more likely, but the social aspect makes group planning that much easier.

The nice thing about the Facebook app is that you can view what types of theaters are showing the film in your area (meaning 3D, stadium seating, IMAX 3D, etc.) and you can also invite along non-Facebook friends by entering in their e-mail address.

Tickets aren’t available for pre-order at all theaters but many more will be added next week.

Source: Christina Warren of Mashable

WARNING: Facebook Malware Attack on the Loose!

A Facebook phishing attack is on the loose this weekend — the third widespread attack on the site in the past three weeks. The attack attempts to steal your Facebook login credentials, install malware on your computer, and even get your home address.

The attack is spread via a “hilarious video” posted to Facebook walls, reports WebSense — when clicked, a form appears requesting your Facebook login.

The attack then returns you to Facebook, installs an app called “Media Player HD”, and asks you to download the “FLV player” — doing so installs malware on your machine. It gets worse: Depending on your location, you may also be presented with a contest to win an iPad … if you just enter your home address.

To avoid getting caught, simply remove the “hilarious video” if you find it on your Facebook wall. If you see it elsewhere on Facebook, don’t click it … and of course remember the obvious rule: Don’t enter your Facebook login anywhere other than Facebook.com.

If you already fell for the attack, change your Facebook password, uninstall the Facebook app (often called “Media Player HD”), and run a virus/malware scan on your computer.



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7-11 Starts Selling “FarmVille” Slurpees!!

7-11 will soon offer FarmVille-branded products that will unlock virtual, 7-11-branded items in the popular Facebook game. Two other games from game-maker Zynga will also get tie-ins with the stores: Mafia Wars and YoVille.

Seven thousand 7-11 stores will offer around 30 branded items, including Slurpees and ice cream, among other things. When a customer buys one of the promotional products, he or she will then be directed to perform some special task in the game world to acquire one of the 7-11 items.

This is the first retail partnership of this kind for Zynga, although this deal grew out of a more limited program in which the company sold FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVille (Yoville) game cards at 12,800 participating 7-11 stores. Zynga is no stranger to virtual branding promotions, either; it has been selling brand-sponsored FarmVille crops since last month.

The company has been very busy making deals over the past few weeks, actually; it just signed a five-year agreement with Facebook involving the use of Facebook’s proprietary virtual currency, and it is also launching games on MySpace (MySpace), including the new Bangkok expansion for Mafia Wars.

Kid Racks Up $1400 Debt in FarmVille

Oh dear — looks like it’s time to add FarmVille to the list of internet addiction scares after a 12-year-old UK boy has amassed £905 in FarmVille debt. About £288 of that came from the boy’s own savings, while £625 was billed to his horrified mother’s credit card.

The debt — which is equivalent to about $1400 USD — was racked up in all of about two weeks’ worth of gameplay. In the popular casual Facebook game, players can spend real money to accrue virtual currency and items. It’s a business that’s booming enough to garner the game’s developer Zynga an estimated valuation as high as $5 billion.

Neither Zynga or the mother’s credit card company HSBC responded positively to requests for refunds; the latter indicated only a criminal proceeding could trigger eligibility for getting the funds reinstated. A spokeswoman for HSBC indicated that had the expenditures been on a gambling site the escalating transactions would have raised warning flags, but since the purchases were technically Facebook Credits, they didn’t warrant suspicion.

What do you think: is FarmVille destined to replace World of Warcraft as the favorite scapegoat for cable news gaming addiction scare segments?

[via Games.com]

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