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Facebook and Twitter launched applications Thursday for Google glasses as developers rushed to learn more about tailoring software for the Internet-linked eyewear yet to hit the market. http://phys.org/news287943519.html Technology Thu, 16 May 2013 17:18:48 EST news287943519 Facebook on Wednesday began rolling out new profile pages redesigned to clear away clutter from "Timelines" that chronicle member postings at the leading social network. http://phys.org/news282413769.html Technology Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:16:15 EST news282413769 Facebook doesn't want to be dismissed as an Internet has-been before its social network even enters its adolescence. http://phys.org/news281891348.html Technology Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:09:16 EST news281891348 Amid chatter of "Facebook fatigue," real or imagined, the world's biggest social networking company is getting ready to unveil a new version of News Feed, the flow of status updates, photos and advertisements its users see on the site. http://phys.org/news281864933.html Technology Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:49:10 EST news281864933 Facebook has sent out invitations to a media event next Thursday at which it'll showcase a new look for the social network's news feed. http://phys.org/news281591992.html Technology Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:10:02 EST news281591992 Looking for a reason to spend more time on Facebook? CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his crew of social-software gurus are convinced their new Graph Search function is just what you need. http://phys.org/news279479378.html Technology Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:20:01 EST news279479378 Even Mark Zuckerberg's family can get tripped up by Facebook's privacy settings. A picture that Zuckerberg's sister posted on her personal Facebook profile was seen by a marketing director, who then posted the picture to Twitter and her more than 40,000 followers Wednesday. http://phys.org/news275812526.html Technology Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:10:01 EST news275812526 (AP)—A woman I haven't spoken to in six years is pregnant with her second son. Another college acquaintance reads the Bible a lot. A high school classmate likes to rant about politics. A college dormmate thinks he works too much. http://phys.org/news275755344.html Technology Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:42:32 EST news275755344 Facebook said Wednesday it is halting a test of placing ads in "apps" that synch to the leading social network, renewing questions on how it will boost revenues from members using smartphones or tablets. http://phys.org/news275154839.html Technology Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:54:06 EST news275154839 Fresh from passing the billion-member mark, Facebook was letting members in the United States pay seven dollars each to have personal posts given priority in feeds seen by their friends. http://phys.org/news268632425.html Technology Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:07:35 EST news268632425 Facebook is testing a new advertising service that lets marketers drop more messages into users' news feeds. http://phys.org/news264352678.html Technology Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:18:08 EST news264352678 Online advertising has become prevalent in the past five years, and social media sites, such as Facebook, have played a major role. Now, a study at the University of Missouri School of Journalism has developed a method that could help advertisers target online audiences easier by knowing their personality types. http://phys.org/news261336563.html Other Sciences Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:29:35 EST news261336563 Stephen Terrell expected a group of happy users when he updated his company's Facebook profile page to the new Timeline format, allowing his mostly senior-citizen customers to register for a contest to win a trip to Hollywood to meet nonagenarian actor Betty White. http://phys.org/news252148315.html Technology Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:30:01 EST news252148315 Facebook has warned potential investors that a patent lawsuit against the company by Internet pioneer Yahoo! could deliver a significant blow to its business. http://phys.org/news252123445.html Technology Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:17:34 EST news252123445 Facebook confirmed Friday that it has added a trove of IBM patents to its arsenal on an increasingly lawsuit-strewn technology battlefield. http://phys.org/news251751910.html Technology Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:20:01 EST news251751910 Yahoo! filed suit against Facebook in a California court on Monday accusing the social networking giant of infringing on 10 patents held by the Internet pioneer. http://phys.org/news250792887.html Technology Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:41:36 EST news250792887 Facebook users on Wednesday took to complaining about changes intended to make it easier to manage the torrents of updates from friends at the world's largest social network. http://phys.org/news235838366.html Technology Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:40:31 EST news235838366 Facebook on Tuesday began rolling out the latest in a rapid-fire series of enhancements to the leading social network as nascent rival Google+ opened its membership to the world. http://phys.org/news235755696.html Technology Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:41:55 EST news235755696 Facebook on Friday said it is dabbling with a Twitter-like feature that alerts members in real time to what their friends are up to on the social network. http://phys.org/news226983232.html Technology Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:53:59 EST news226983232 Check-in services are social-networking apps that let you "check in" to tell your friends or the whole world where you are at the moment. One in five smartphone owners uses them. http://phys.org/news226550990.html Technology Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:50:14 EST news226550990 Customers often “like” businesses on Facebook, but when it comes to those companies’ ads on the social networking site, “dislike” is closer to the mark, says a University of Florida study of college-age users. http://phys.org/news224834722.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 May 2011 07:20:01 EST news224834722 Today, visiting almost any major website -- checking your Facebook news feed, looking for books on Amazon, bidding for merchandise on eBay -- involves querying a database. But the databases that these sites maintain are enormous, and searching them anew every time a new user logs on would be painfully time consuming. To serve up data in a timely fashion, most big sites use a technique called caching. Their servers keep local copies of their most frequently accessed data, which they can send to users without searching the database. http://phys.org/news206257527.html Technology Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:45:51 EST news206257527 Leslie checked her Facebook profile late one day and discovered that she was suddenly single. Her now ex-boyfriend had met someone new and she learned this through the ubiquitous news feed that presented her personal rejection like a breaking news story. http://phys.org/news198987560.html Other Sciences Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:19:57 EST news198987560 (AP) -- Yahoo Inc.'s latest facelift will include a Facebook touchup. http://phys.org/news195064059.html Technology Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:27:52 EST news195064059 Facebook has won a US patent on news feeds behind the kinds of real-time updates that make social-networking websites a hit with users. http://phys.org/news186417396.html Technology Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:36:50 EST news186417396 First off, I'd like to thank Facebook for confusing its users yet again with a new feature that is hard to decipher and makes users grumpy. It really makes my job of picking a column topic so easy when they baffle folks with a new layout every couple months. http://phys.org/news177178890.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:30:01 EST news177178890 Legions of Facebook users united in protest, demanding that the world's most popular social-networking service undo recent changes to its home page. http://phys.org/news175842820.html Technology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:00:01 EST news175842820 (AP) -- Worried about missing a birth announcement, or details on what your portly uncle had for lunch? http://phys.org/news175533305.html Technology Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:15:37 EST news175533305 (PhysOrg.com) -- The social networking site Facebook has begun testing a simpler, no-frills alternative to its regular interface. The cleaner, uncluttered interface is particularly aimed at entry-level users new to social networking, and to users with low bandwidth, but it may also appeal to users tired of all the distractions and unused complications on the regular interface. And it is simple enough to grasp Twitter by the horns. http://phys.org/news172223164.html Technology Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:46:21 EST news172223164