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Facebook Sees Major Growth In Japan, But Mixi Still Has The Lead

Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

In the past year, Facebook’s traffic in Japan has more than tripled. This past year, Facebook was translated into the Japanese language. However, Mixi.jp is still the dominant social network in Japan. mixi, Inc. (TYO3:2121) had 12.7 million unique visitors this past June. Facebook had 538,000, MySpace had 1.2 million, Orkut had 638,000, [...]

• Facebook Audience Triples in Japan During Past Year, According to comScore - PR News Wire
• Facebook Audience Triples in Japan During Past Year, According to comScore - Red Orbit
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Some Girl on my Facebook’s Girlicious Pictures of the Day

Drunken Stepfather (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Girlicious is some whore reality TV produced act that is pretty much a subsidiary of Pussy Cat Dolls because the same slut is behind the two projects. They are basically a group of girls with moderate dancing ability, moderate singing ability and moderate lookin’ good in lingerie ability. I don’t know what message this gives [...]

Medical Aid Via Coke & Facebook

PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Simon Berry was impressed by Coca Cola’s widespread distribution network in Africa. Though, he found it shocking that remote communities had access to all the Coke they could ever need, but not to life saving medicine. Taking matters into his own hands he started a Facebook group, campaigning to have Coke dedicate some of their [...]

Hamlet, As Told On Facebook

Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

guest post by Aaron Muszalski Over at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, writer Sarah Schmelling proves that brevity is indeed the soul of wit, presenting Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” as it might appear in Facebook’s News Feed. Can “War and Peace” (as told on Twitter) be all that far behind? via The Social Path Related PostsLaughing Squid Facebook PageFacebook Beacon Backlash, Leads [...] ShareThis

Can Facebook Lead Both at Home and Abroad?

Mashable (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Facebook may be the de facto leader in the United States, but in Japan (and other areas across the globe) it has some significant work to do if it wants to catch up to the local social network flavors. But according to comScore , it’s doing just that. Over the past year, Facebook’s growth has tripled and it’s quickly gaining ground on Japan’s top social network, Mixi.JP. In fact, Facebook grew an...

[Amusing] Top ten things not to type in your Facebook status update. Submitter is: in his bunk with a bowl of Jell-o. Voting enabled, submit other ideas

Fark.com (Free subscription) | 39 minutes ago

So i was laying in bed last night and i noticed this awful stench from under my covers. i lifted them and I'll be damned if it wasn't crotch rot. But anyway i'm going out to the club tonight. Any guys wanna get with me holla at me! My number is 555-5555 and my address is 123 anystreet. See you there!!

New York - Facebook Users Hit With Major Virus Spam

Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

New York - Warning to all Facebook users: a new virus is going around that appears to infect the Facebook users’ Friends lists. It sends out an email message with a link that asks you to download a plug-in to view a video. One word: don’t. this email message, or a variation of it, from Facebook [...]

[Stupid] Man with tattoos gets turned away from club, sets up Facebook group in protest. This is news?

Fark.com (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

2008-08-07 10:39:24 AMMaybe because tattoos are for people with low self-esteem who have no idea how ridiculous they will look at 80 wearing a Chinese Tattoo they thought said "Pure Life" when it actually says "stupid round eye".If tattoos are "art", then so is shiatting on the sidewalk. Defacing a beautiful thing is not "art", sorry.2008-08-07 11:58:04 AM-looks up-2008-08-07 12:12:08 PMAny club that...

Facebook and StudiVZ battle over Germany

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Facebook, the American giant in social networking, tried to buy StudiVZ in an effort to crack the German market. After it was rebuffed, it sued, claiming StudiVZ had stolen its look.

MediaChannel on Facebook

MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

By MediaChannel Become a fan of MediaChannel on Facebook! You can now find (and favorite) our new MediaChannel page on Facebook .

400 Registrations for Free Webinar on Using Facebook for Recruiting

CollegeRecruiter.com Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

We'll likely hit 400 registrations later today for next week's free webinar on how employers can and should use social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace for recruiting. Some good friends of ours such as Jason Davis at RecruitingBlogs.com...

hamlet and friends update their facebook status

escapegrace (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Horatio thinks he saw a ghost. Hamlet thinks it's annoying when your uncle marries your mother right after your dad dies. The king thinks Hamlet's annoying. Laertes thinks Ophelia can do better. Hamlet's father is now a zombie. More here .

See What Facebook Connect Looks Like

ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

On Monday, Facebook released a sample site that demonstrates how Facebook Connect ( previous coverage ), their new authentication methodology for logging into third-party web sites, will work. On the demo site, instead of registering for an account, you're presented with an option to use Facebook Connect instead. The Facebook team built the site so developers interested in using this technology could...

Web Hosting For Facebook, OpenSocial Developers, from Sun Microsystems (Try Hosted Kerio Email)

InfTek Hosting (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Santa Clara , California - (The Hosting News) - August 4, 2008 - Technology firm and web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc., recently collaborated with Joyent, to accelerate the development and deployment of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. Providing up to 12 months free web [...]

New FaceBook look and feel

Computer World (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

I received a link to the new FaceBook look and feel. Just go to new.facebook.com and it should work for your account. The new look is cleaner, has a nifty drop-down menu for apps, uses tabs for your profile and mini-feed, and seems to resolve the issue I had this week with double-blog postings. (There are still issues with importing contacts.) More later... read more

Now, sell real estate on YouTube, Facebook, Now buy and sell real estate via YouTube, Facebook, sell real estate on YouTube, FacebooK

rockport | 08/04/2008

Melbourne: YouTube and Facebook have now become the latest tools to buy and sell real estate, with agents showcasing videos featuring property on these websites.

• Now, sell real estate on YouTube, Facebook - Sify
• Property boom on YouTube - Courrier Mail

Mobile Social Networking and User Generated Content Market Insight

sunilnair | 06/13/2008

Mobile Social Networking and User Generated Content Market Insight Vodafone have just announced a tie-up with Facebook for mobile phone activity. Facebook has launched a platform for operators designed to make its social networking application work better on portable devices. Vodafone is the first operator to use the Facebook for Mobile Operators platform and has started services in the UK and Germany....

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sheensol | 06/01/2008

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