VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations. We find out why on this week’s show, featuring Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times and Adrianne Jeffries of ReadWriteWeb.
Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user’s friends have said they “like.”
Social network gets flak from Greenpeace over its planned giant data center in Oregon, but Facebook says its efficiency will be industry-leading.
Facebook users who log in from multiple devices will soon have a way to make sure they are only logged in on the computer they are currently using.
Talks with Facebook about Apple’s new Ping music social network fizzled, Jobs says, because Facebook wanted “onerous terms that we could not agree to.”
Ping picks at the good parts of Twitter and Facebook and builds a social network around something for which everyone has strong feelings. Might Ping teach Facebook something about privacy too?
The megaretailer plans to sell $15, $25, and $50 Credits cards in its brick-and-mortar stores and on its site, the company announces. Sales will start on Sunday.
Madden NRL Superstars lets players create a fantasy football team and compete against others on Facebook. If you want to win, though, be ready to cough up cash.
Even before the prosecution rests, the Detroit area juror–now former juror–posts on Facebook that the defendant is guilty.
Individual users and–more importantly–artists and musicians using MySpace can now push their updates to Facebook, an effort that MySpace probably hopes will keep them from jumping ship entirely.