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Entries from March 2008

Breaking: Facebook to roll out new Instant Messaging functionality

March 14th, 2008 · No Comments

TechCrunch just announced that Facebook will be releasing instant messaging functionality. The instant messaging will be on the Jabber open source platform, thus allowing services such as Gtalk, Adium (Apple), and Trillian (Windows) to be compatible. As soon as there are screenshots available I will post them.
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Facebook on the same path as Myspace? Marketers think so.

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

A few years ago there was a handful of Myspace utilities that allowed people to easily send friend requests, mass message people, mass comment on people’s profiles, and perform a number of other automated actions. Some people think that these tools brought havoc to the user’s real social graph, as we know it, to […]

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