A class action lawsuit filed against Facebook over its FriendFinder feature was dismissed yesterday by a California federal judge. In the case of Robyn Cohen, et al. v. Facebook, a group of the network's members alleged that Facebook misappropriated users' names and likenesses to promote its Friend Finder service, which suggests new Facebook friends to a user who chooses to upload his or her email contacts.

The Robyn Cohen case was actually dismissed previously on June 28, 2011, but the plain [...]

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Digital music has transformed year after year since Shawn Fanning brought us Napster in 1999. The service allowed you to easily download music in MP3 format that you hadn't paid...

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This guest post is by Daniel Smith of Propaganda House. You know who I'm talking about: that friend who makes you wince whenever you see them pop up on your phone, or makes you dread social events that you know they're going to be at. They're like Jerry's friend Joel Horneck in the Seinfeld episode [...]

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friend.ly staff pictureFacebook nabbed another social media company — friend.ly. The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup is a Facebook app for asking and answering questions with other people on the social network.

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The acquisitions continue for Facebook. Last week, the social network bought Friend.ly, the social question and answer service, both sides confirm today.

Friend.ly has more details in their blog post here. Meanwhile, Facebook has this to say on the deal:

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Have you ever wished that you could be friends with the characters from your favorite movies and TV shows in real life?  Until recently this was impossible—after all, these characters don’t actually exist outside of the TV shows and movies you love.  But SocialSamba is aiming to change all that.  SocialSamba is a new scripted social networking service that lets you become friends with your favorite characters, interact with them and become a part of their stories through posts, images and videos [...]

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Want the full story from F8? Here's everything you need to know. We’ve just found that Facebook is doing a lot with music integration, as part of their new Open...

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Ever wondered what your friends were doing on the Facebook Pages that you both like? Wonder no longer, because Facebook has just introduced a new tab to the sidebar of Pages that will show Friend Activity:So while you might have been seeing your friends' activity in your sidebar Ticker (hate that? You can disable it.), the new tab will show you precisely what they've been doing on a Page, and it's a bit easier to follow than a quickly-scrolling feed.We're told that there's a few types of content [...]

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Earlier this week, we reported that Facebook had quietly activated a nifty new feature: smart friend lists that use algorithms to generate a handful of lists of your friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and people who live near you. Now Facebook is publicly announcing smart friend lists, and it has some additional details.

Friend Lists, of course, have been available on Facebook for years now. But most people never bother with them because they're a total pain — scrolling through hundreds upon hu [...]

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Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas and Cecilia Mascolo, of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory developed a new approach to social networking that relies on more than just friends of friends. It also includes the places people visit.


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