Social Network - Trailer

The movie about the rise of the social networking site known as Facebook will soon be released, staring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake but to name two.

What is a social network:

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige

This is the Wikipedia definition of a Social Network, to all of us, its described in one single word, Facebook.

Facebook 3.1.3 App Out For iPhone/iPod Touch

The Facebook app for iPhone and iPod Touch just got updated, lots of fixes and nice features.


New features in this version:

• You can now watch Facebook videos.
• You can now view and write on walls of events.
• Uploaded photos are now 720px wide.

Check out the rest after the break

Facebook's new privacy settings explained

Sure, it took Facebook a little too long to realize its users wanted easy-to-use privacy controls instead of an ever-increasing array of complex and granular settings that most people ignored until it was too late and photographic evidence of their drunken deeds was being emailed directly to their employers, but even the new system has some quirks, and it's always going to be up to you to manage what information you're publishing. 


It's not complicated stuff, but we promise you a quick peek at this little intro course over at Switched put together will be worth it in the end -- you don't want Ibiza 2006 to ruin your life all over again, do you?

Facebook Chat Is Not Secure ?

The social networking site, which has more than 400 million users worldwide, took down the chat feature for a number of hours while engineers worked to fix a software bug.

Private chats between some users were briefly viewable on a privacy settings feature that allows a user to see how their profile will appear to other users.

The problem was first reported by the TechCrunch blog.

A spokesman for Facebook said: 

"For a limited period of time, a bug permitted some users' chat messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends by manipulating the 'preview my profile' feature of Facebook privacy settings.

"When we received reports of the problem, our engineers promptly diagnosed it and temporarily disabled the chat function. We also pushed out a fix to take care of the visible friend requests which is now complete.

"We worked quickly to resolve this matter, ensuring that once the bug was reported to us, a solution was quickly found and implemented."

The company also issued a statement on the site explaining the absence of the chat feature to users.

"Chat is unavailable as we work quickly to fix a bug reported to us," it said. "It should return to normal soon… We apologise for the inconvenience."

At one point, some 5,000 people said they "liked" Facebook's comment.

The mistake happened as Facebook comes under increasing scrutiny from privacy campaigners.

It changed the way users' personal profile information is treated last month. It now requires that data about an individual's home town, education and hobbies be tied to public pages devoted to those topics.

Four US senators wrote to Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, last week to take issue with some of the changes.

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