Facebook Latest search engine news blog articles from Facebook. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Facebook.html Facebook News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13017 We need your help to make Facebook even better. We're in the last stages of a competition, to select the top five next-generation applications. Applications on Facebook make it easier for you to explore your interests and share and connect with your friends. Through fbFund , Facebook's program to award grants to talented entrepreneurs who we think will build successful, meaningful businesses on Facebook, we are awarding $225,000 to each of the top five teams. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:07:32 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12994 When we recently added the ability to comment on your friends' status updates to the Facebook mobile site , we didn't expect that we would receive nearly a million status comments in the first 24 hours. This may not seem like much, but it was actually part of a really important change. As people on Facebook share more and more information each day, status updates have become one of the most popular ways for people to connect quickly and easily on the site. Before, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:41:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12782 Today is Election Day in America, when all attention focuses on democracy's essential moment: voters stepping into polling booths and making their choices. As many as 130 million people, perhaps even more, are expected to cast ballots , in what many experts predict will be the highest level of voter turnout in the U.S. in at least 40 years. Our new Election 08 Page helps you be part of the Election and enhance your experience on Facebook. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:19:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12730 All gifts aren't created equal, and the Facebook Gift Shop is adjusting its pricing system to reflect that. The shop offers nearly 400 gifts, ranging from digital flowers to online depictions of Frisbees and birthday balloons. A new system of credits is replacing the previous, dollar-based pricing approach. For example, gifts that were previously listed at $1 apiece will now sell for 100 credits. The change is automatic and doesn't require any actions to keep participating. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:20:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12662 As we look toward Election Day , talking politics with friends is becoming easier, livelier and more intense. I've found that the Live Feed section of my News Feed has become a flurry of activity around the Election. Everyone's got an opinion, a comment or an interesting update to pass along. We're sharing and responding to events as they happen. Whenever a candidate makes a strong point, a gaffe or a misleading statement, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:33:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12626 At Facebook, we have a lot of blackjack and poker aficionados, so we were pretty excited that Jeff Ma was coming to speak. We often hear from people with unique outsiders' perspectives as part of a speaker series for Facebook employees. Jeff, our latest speaker, played on a blackjack team as an undergrad at MIT. The team won millions of dollars at casinos around the world, and his story is the inspiration for the book, "Bringing Down the House" and the movie, "21" . Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:14:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12570 Over 600,000 Facebook users have RSVP'd to vote on Election Day and invited more than 300,000 of their friends to do the same. In the past month, more then 50,000 users have registered to vote on the Facebook Vote 08 page . And if you live in Vermont, you actually have until tomorrow, Wednesday, October 29th, to mail in your registration . You can visit official Facebook pages for hundreds of state-wide candidates as well as Presidential contenders John McCain , Barack Obama , Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:47:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12445 Instead of simply watching the World Series, many Facebook users are taking their baseball enthusiasm to a new level. Users are displaying their team loyalty and recruiting fans , taunting rivals and challenging their knowledge of team trivia and creating their own fantasy baseball line-ups , all on sports applications built on Facebook Platform. So far, Phillies fans are outpacing Rays fans on Facebook, but they aren't far behind. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:39:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12434 At Facebook, we're constantly trying to make the world more open and connected. We don't just do this with the products we build, we also do it with the way we build products. Our site is built almost entirely with open source software, and we're committed to releasing the code we develop back to the community as open source. Open source software is code that is shared freely for anyone to use or improve. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:45:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11980 For three seasons now, the Facebook Falcons have participated in an outdoor co-ed soccer league, competing against other companies and club teams in Silicon Valley. These weekly get-togethers have fostered strong relationships between the various departments that comprise Facebook. We have players representing engineering, user experience, business development, user operations and many more â€" all competing together under a banner of blue. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:52:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11826 We're always working on innovative ways to make your experience on Facebook more useful. Toward that goal, today we've added web search for people in the US, powered by Microsoft Live Search, to your Facebook Search experience. This is only a first step in giving you the ability to search for content across the web right from Facebook. By integrating web search into Facebook, you can increase the information available to share with your friends, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:35:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11186 Today we're excited to preview the next version of Lexicon . With over 100 million active users on Facebook, Lexicon graphs are a powerful way to understand the trends in what people are talking about. We've introduced a number of new ways to play with the data in this version, and many of the enhancements are based on your feedback over the last couple of months. Lexicon only gathers text from Walls and never accesses messages, Chat, searches, or other private data. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:51:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11139 Last year in May, we held a big developer conference, f8. As you may know, we used f8 to introduce Facebook Platformâ€"a development system that enables developers to build applications on Facebook, where all of our 90 million users can interact with them. Honestly, the fact that applications grew so quickly was a surpriseâ€"even to us. We've learned a lot in this last year, and with success also found a new set of problems that we needed to solve. This year at f8, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:01:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11138 After months of hard work, we're at a point where almost all 100 million people around the world on Facebook are using the new design. As we continue to roll this out, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we've built and why I think it's an important step for us. Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. In the last four years, we've built new products that help people share more, such as photos, videos, groups, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:01:27 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11095 Facebook is growing...fast. As we welcome new users and as our users become more active, we face new challenges, and we need great people that like working on hard problems to help us out. With 700 employees and over 100 million active users, each person working at Facebook has the chance to have an enormous impact. Over the coming year, we'll be visiting 20 universities and 5 business schools searching for talented students to fill both full-time and intern opportunities. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:05:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10955 A few weeks ago Facebook announced a Partnership with ServiceNation , an exciting new initiative to increase volunteerism and service in America, as part of our ongoing commitment to connect people with the world around them. Today, more than 60 million Americans volunteer their time and energy to worthy causes and ServiceNation aims to increase that to 100 million by 2020. To this end, ServiceNation has assembled a coalition of organizations large and small, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:03:02 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10954 We are just beginning the process of moving people over to the new Facebook and saying goodbye to the old Facebook. The new Facebook has been available for a few months for general use, and we've been iterating on it for a long time. We set out to make Facebook simpler, cleaner, more relevant, and easier to control. With your feedback and participationâ€"over 30 million people are now using the new siteâ€"we believe we've gotten to the best Facebook yet. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:03:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10544 Five months ago, we launched the first translated version of Facebook in Spanish . Since then, the internationalization team and its community translators have been busy translating the site into sixteen more languages. We now supportâ€"among othersâ€"French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian. You can see the full list of languages, or change your language settings, from the language selector in the footer on any page. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:36:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9303 At Facebook, we're always trying to find new ways to make communication easier and more efficient. One way we do that is by making it easy to have a conversation about the things that happen on Facebook. In the past, you've been able to comment on photos, notes and posted items, but if there was something else on your friend's profileâ€"an interesting status, or a cool new friendshipâ€"you'd need to send a message or write a Wall post to talk about it. But starting today, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:19:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8907 Early this morning, a small group of people started seeing prompts on their home pages to switch over and try out the new Facebook. We're really happy to say that anyone can try out the new site now by visiting http://www.new.facebook.com . As you explore the site, you should note: A simplified top menu: we've moved the Applications menu from the left side of the page to the top menu, giving everyone a little more space to breathe. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:43:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8514 Last August we launched our Facebook iPhone website, and almost a year later it has over 1.5 million people using it regularly. We are thrilled to see so many enjoying Facebook on their iPhones, so we've been working on ways to take our iPhone experience to the next level. Today, Apple has opened the doors to its App Store which features a new application we've created: Facebook for iPhone. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:50:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8014 As Facebook grows in other languages, we are learning a lot about what the "Facebook Experience" is like for people around the world. One of the first challenges was getting words that are really long in other languages to fit on the screen properly. Recently, we've been figuring out how to deal with a new challengeâ€"grammar. Ever see a story about a friend who tagged "themself" in a photo? "Themself" isn't even a real word. We've used that in place of "himself or herself". Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:44:16 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7937 This month, we're rolling out Inbox search, a tool which allows you to search through all of your messages either by name of the person who sent it, or by a keyword that shows up in the text. Ever had a friend send you a Facebook message suggesting a good restaurant? Or maybe you were sent an address or phone number of an old friend. Then time passes and your Inbox fills up, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:03:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7840 Over the last few weeks, you may have noticed an additional home page box that features "People You May Know". We built this feature with the intention of helping you connect to more of your friends, especially ones you might not have known were on Facebook. People You May Know looks at, among other things, your current friend list and their friends, your education info and your work info. If you are already friends on Facebook with some people from your last job, for example, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:31:53 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7654 Back in September 2006, we decided to open up Facebook to everyone. Well, almost everyone. We realized Facebook would be most useful if more people were allowed to join, but we also weren't willing to compromise the security of the site by removing all methods of verification, especially for high school students and minors. Unfortunately this meant that most homeschoolers weren't able to register. For security purposes, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:13:32 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6840 We've often written about our commitment to keeping Facebook a safe place for you to interact and share information with your friends. We work hard to keep the site free of abuse, spam, and harassment. A recent place where we've been fighting the spam battle has been through sites that ask for a user's login information to use a contact importer, and then spam all of their friends. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 29 May 2008 23:26:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6629 A few weeks ago, we told you about the new ability to import stories into your Mini-Feed from other sites. Since then, we've been working on increasing the number of sites that work with this feature. We're happy to report that now, you can import activity from YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, and Google Reader in addition to Flickr, Picasa, Digg, Yelp and del.icio.us. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Fri, 23 May 2008 18:50:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6209 At Facebook we love tools that allow you to see what people around the globe are searching for or discussing on blogs, such as Google Trends or Technorati. We thought it would be cool to show trends on the public and semi-public forums across Facebook (also known as Walls). Today we're announcing the launch of Facebook Lexicon, a tool where you can see the buzz surrounding different words and phrases on Facebook Walls. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Thu, 15 May 2008 02:06:05 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5285 We take spam prevention seriously here at Facebook, but unfortunately, there is spam on the site. As an example, you may have seen Wall posts advertising free ringtones among other spam, as well as a more malicious form of spam called "Phishing". These two trends are related, and here's why: Phishing is a method to trick Internet users into visiting fraudulent websites. Phishing websites are designed to look like the login page of popular websites. Because they look real, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:14:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4446 Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be making lots of small changes to the site to make it simpler and easier to use. You might see some of these changes; others you might not even notice, like removing the word "Updated" from News Feed stories that have new information added to them. We're making these changes so that you can focus on the most important information as you navigate the site"what's happening with your friends. With that in mind, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:55:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4445 This week marks the launch of Facebook Chat"a new way for you to communicate with your friends in real-time. The Wall and Inbox have been the primary ways to communicate, but when more immediacy is necessary"for example when making plans for lunch in half an hour or arguing over a foul call in the NCAA tournament"they might not be enough. Chat aims to fill this gap. We'll be rolling this out slowly going forward, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:55:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3646 Today, we are introducing privacy changes that work towards our goal of giving you the control you need in order to share information comfortably on Facebook. There are two ways we've changed things: a standardized privacy interface across the site, and new privacy options available through this interface. New Privacy Interface Now, whenever and wherever you are controlling your privacy on Facebook, you will use the same standardized privacy interface. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:54:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2908 About a year ago, we told you about an upcoming site redesign, and asked you to check out our preview group. We received great feedback from that group, so right now, we wanted to let you know about some changes that we're working on, and invite you to check out some previews in a new Facebook Page. The big project at Facebook these days is a redesign of Profiles. As more and more information is available on Facebook"more photo albums, more applications, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:23:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2032 Recently, a lot of people have been frustrated by applications that inappropriately require you to invite friends. This generates a bad experience for both application users and their friends who receive unwanted invitations. We've been reading all your emails on the topic; there are even Facebook groups and a scheduled protest event devoted to the issue. We've been working on several improvements to prevent this and other abuses by applications. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:58:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1762 Way back in December, we introduced a feature that makes it easy to turn photos that you're tagged in into great profile pictures. First we introduced a link to "Make Profile Photo" link beneath photos in which you were tagged. We then decided to really optimize for the case when you're in a photo with someone else. We added a photo-cropping interface that lets you select the portion of the photo you are in, and it is scaled perfectly to be the size of a profile picture. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:20:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1761 Following the excitement of the Iowa Caucuses, all eyes are now on New Hampshire, which will host the nation's first primary on Tuesday. Tonight, all of the major contenders from both parties will be in the Granite State to take part in the New Hampshire Debates, presented by Facebook, ABC News and WMUR. The Republican candidates will square off at 7pm/6c, followed by the Democratic candidates about 90 minutes later. Charles Gibson will moderate both debates. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:18:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1611 Good luck finding borders like this on the site today. When Facebook first launched in February 2004, there were three important things that you could do on the site. You could create a profile with your picture and information, view other people's profiles, and add people as friends. The site also featured ugly dotted borders and strangely aligned labels. Back then, the site was only available at Harvard, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:53:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1612 Recently, chain letters have started to spread across Facebook with all sorts of misinformation. Let's get some information out there about how we communicate to you about Facebook. Right now, there are only four ways that we try to get information to users. Home Page Announcements: Home Page announcements are the big boxes that push down your News Feed. These announcements contain information that we really want you to see; changes to your account, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:52:05 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=681 About a month ago, we released a new feature called Beacon to try to help people share information with their friends about things they do on the web. We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them. We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it. While I am disappointed with our mistakes, we appreciate all the feedback we have received from our users. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:00:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=680 During the 2006 election, more than 1.5 million of you participated in our special political features that let you indicate which candidates you supported and which political issues mattered most to you. For the 2008 election, we have partnered with ABC News to create the 'US Politics' application that has even more features to get involved in the race. If you haven't already, add US politics to your account; it serves as a central place for all of our election features. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:20:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=678 Since News Feed launched last year, it has proven to be an extremely useful way to find out what is happening in your friends' lives, both online and offline. But as the number of potential stories and story types grows, we wanted to make sure you continue to see the stories that matter most to you. This morning we launched feedback controls on all News Feed stories to allow users to tell Facebook what they think of a story. Did a particular story make you smile? Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:15:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=676 Facebook has always been about helping you stay connected with the people that matter to you, and then helping you keep up with the interesting things those people are up to. Last year, we decided to improve your ability to do both of these things by opening up the site to anyone with an email address (so all your friends could join) and launching News Feed (so you could see the most interesting stories about your friends). It's been a year, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:29:53 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=682 Today we announced an entirely new advertising solution for Facebook. Right now, we want to make clear what's changing"and what's not"for you. First of all, what's not changing: Facebook will always stay clutter-free and clean. Facebook will never sell any of your information. You will always have control over your information and your Facebook experience. You will not see any more ads than you did before this. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:46:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=683 There have been a lot of headlines about us recently in regards to online safety"especially the safety of minors on the site. We've been in ongoing talks with various agencies and people, and today we wanted to say unequivocally how seriously we take this issue. In the past, we've talked about our report links and the contribution that all users make to keeping Facebook a trusted environment to share information. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:10:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=679 The PHP programming language has solidified itself as the language of choice for many top internet properties, including Facebook. PHP is easy to use and integrates well with Apache, Memcache, and MySQL. Despite its suitability for web development and scripting, PHP is generally not the best choice for standalone software or servers. C++, on the other hand, is well suited for building both online and offline services. Unfortunately, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:00:36 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=684 Is there a little bit of competition between Toronto and London? Back in May, Nico wrote about the apparent Canadian love for Facebook (and how much we loved them back). A few weeks later, London picked up in a big way, and surpassed Toronto to become the largest network on the site. Over 1 million Londoners (the blue line) had joined the London network by the end of August. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:54:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=675 Starting today, we are making limited public search listings available to people who are not logged in to Facebook. We're expanding search so that people can see which of their friends are on Facebook more easily. The public search listing contains less information than someone could find right after signing up anyway, so we're not exposing any new information, and you have complete control over your public search listing. Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:57:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=677 If you're like most people, you may have a few stubborn friends who haven't joined Facebook'yet. This can make reaching friends complicated"there are some friends you can send a Facebook message, and others you have to email. Not anymore. Now, when you're writing messages, you can send the message to people on Facebook, and to people not on Facebook. Now you can enter a friend's email address into the To: line when you send a message or share an album, Search Engines News SEO News Facebook Facebook Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:51:28 GMT