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14, Mar, 11

Facebook Comments Box Plugin Now Accepts AOL for Login

Posted by Josh Constine, under aol, Facebook, Google, OpenID, social plugins, Twitter, Yahoo

The recently released version of Facebook’s Comments Box social plugin for third-party websites now accepts AOL accounts for login. Initially the plugin only allowed Facebook and Yahoo! for login, though we discovered there was live code for Twitter and Google logins present but inactive. The additional login option will make the Comments Box accessible to [...]

20, May, 10

Facebook and Others Caught Sending User Data to Advertisers

Posted by Barb Dybwad, under Advertising, digg, Facebook, facebook privacy, Google, Hi5, LiveJournal, Marketing, MySpace, news, Privacy, social networking, Top Stories, trending, xanga, Yahoo

Facebook, MySpace and other social networks have apparently been sending personal and identifiable information about users to advertisers without consent, despite assurances to the contrary.

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22, Apr, 10

How To Easily Pull Your Facebook Friends Data Into Your Yahoo Contacts

Posted by Neil Vidyarthi, under news, Yahoo

In a blog post today, Yahoo announced that they are adding yet another feature to their Facebook Connect implementation: populating your contacts’ details pages with information from Facebook.  The feature makes it so that with one click, your entire Yahoo contacts database is updated with all your Facebook contacts and all their personal information.  This [...]

29, Mar, 10

Yahoo! Mail Increases Integration With Facebook

Posted by Nick O'Neill, under Connect, news, Yahoo

Yahoo! continues to increase their level of integration with Facebook, with the latest implementation enabling users to update their Facebook status from Yahoo! Mail as well as view their contacts profile photos when they’re emailed. While these new features are only being rolled out to a few select markets initially, it will be pushed [...]

17, Mar, 10

Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Facebook Fantasy Sports Game-Makers Citizen Sports

Posted by Neil Vidyarthi, under Acquisitions, Citizen Sports, news, social games, Yahoo

Yahoo today announced that they are acquiring Citizen Sports, a company that creates fantasy sports leagues for Facebook, iPhone, Android and other devices.  The acquisition is meant to enhance Yahoo’s position in social games and fantasy sports, and “strengthen Yahoo!’s social strategy of enriching, aggregating and distributing social content from across the entire Web, and [...]

10, Mar, 10

Wireless Ink Sues Facebook Over Patent Infringement

Posted by Bilal Hameed, under Facebook, Google, Legal, Mobile, news, patent, Wireless, Yahoo

WSJ is reporting that Facebook and Google have been sued by Wireless Ink Corp, a Long Island based company for patent infringement. Wireless Ink is accusing Facebook and Google’s mobile websites of infringing upon Wireless Ink’s patent that was sought in 2004 and finally granted to them in 2009.

Wireless Ink’s patent was for a process [...]

04, Mar, 10

Yahoo! Launches Facebook Contact Importer

Posted by Nick O'Neill, under Connect, news, Yahoo

Only a couple years after users were banned for trying to import their Facebook contacts into other services, Yahoo! has launched a new service which enables you to import all of your Facebook contacts’ email addresses. Interestingly enough, this has nothing to do with applications that were granted access to users’ emails as Facebook [...]

22, Feb, 10

Facebook: The Destination Of Choice For Olympic Viewers

Posted by Bilal Hameed, under Facebook, Google, news, Olympics, Reports, Twitter, Yahoo

According to a new report from Nielsen, Facebook was the top destination for Cable TV viewers who turned to the web to view the opening ceremonies of this year’s Winter Olympics. According to the report, 13 percent of the Cable TV audience who watched the Olympic opening ceremonies, also simultaneously watched them on the Internet.

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17, Feb, 10

Facebook To Yahoo: Eat Our Dust!

Posted by Nick O'Neill, under Compete, Growth, news, Statistics, Yahoo

The latest statistics from analytics firm Compete.com confirms that Facebook has indeed surpassed Yahoo! as the second largest domestic website. While Alexa data suggested that Facebook surpassed Yahoo! on a global level long ago, Nielsen data released yesterday suggests that Yahoo! still has more unique visitors when considering all properties beyond Yahoo.com.

The trend is [...]

02, Dec, 09

Yahoo! Announces Company Wide Implementation Of Facebook Connect

Posted by Nick O'Neill, under Connect, news, Yahoo

Over the summer I wrote about the Facebookization of Yahoo! as the company implemented support for Facebook from the Yahoo! homepage. Today, the company announced more widespread support of Facebook by implementing “Facebook Connect across Yahoo! properties worldwide”. This is a massive announcement for Facebook as Yahoo! is the largest portal on the [...]

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