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Developers of a highly popular but unauthorized version of Scrabble for the online hangout Facebook vowed Tuesday to do just that, now that a video game maker has weighed in with an official version of the word game. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/game-maker-tries-to-legitimize-facebook-scrabble.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:44:23 EDT As Facebook has blossomed into a hot Internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends--or at least, an unauthorized version of the word game that Scrabble's owners have tried to shut down. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/game-maker-tries-to-legitimize-facebook-scrabble.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:11:35 EDT Marc Andreessen, an entrepreneur and software engineer behind the Web's earliest browsers, has joined the board of the online hangout Facebook. Andreessen's appointment could bring additional clout and insight to a young but growing startup headed by Mark Zuckerberg, 24, who started Facebook as a Harvard undergraduate. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/browser-pioneer-andreessen-joins-facebook-board.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:32:09 EDT The online hangout Facebook is getting more serious about grammar. No more should users see jarringly incorrect declarations such as "Debbie changed their profile picture." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/facebook-to-users-state-sex-to-cut-grammar-errors.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:02:31 EDT Facebook Inc.'s long and embarrassing legal tussle with three men who accused founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their social networking concept may soon end, now that a judge has ordered the parties to accept the settlement they reached. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/judge-orders-facebook-rivals-to-accept-settlement.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:45:42 EDT Facebook Inc.'s quest to lure more advertisers to its popular online hangout is getting an assist from Visa Inc.'s marketing machine. As part of a small-business network Visa designed for Facebook, the world's largest credit and debit card processor is paying for $2 million of advertising on the socializing site. Visa also will promote the new Facebook service in a multimedia marketing campaign beginning next month. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/78092-facebook.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/visa-business-network-boosts-facebooks-efforts.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/visa-business-network-boosts-facebooks-efforts.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:03:55 EDT Facebook Inc.'s quest to lure more advertisers to its popular online hangout is getting an assist from Visa Inc.'s marketing machine. As part of a small-business network Visa designed for Facebook, the world's largest credit and debit card processor is paying for $2 million of advertising on the socializing site. Visa also will promote the new Facebook service in a multimedia marketing campaign beginning next month. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/visa-business-network-boosts-facebooks-ad-efforts.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:32:08 EDT Matt Cohler, a pivotal player in Facebook Inc.'s rapid growth, is departing the popular online hangout to find other promising Internet startups for a prominent venture capital firm. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/facebook-loses-a-top-exec-to-venture-capital-firm.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:51:48 EDT Enthralled with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao? You can now declare it on Facebook. It's not known who set up the page for the leader that now appears on the social networking site and features his official government photo. But the premier appears to have some fans--more than 16,000 users had signed up as his "supporters" as of Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080529/chinese-premier-shows-up-on-facebook.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 08:52:31 EDT Enthralled with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao? You can now declare it on Facebook. It's not known who set up the page for the leader that now appears on the social networking site and features his official government photo. But the premier appears to have some fans--more than 16,000 users had signed up as his "supporters" as of Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080528/chinese-premier-shows-up-on-facebook.htm Wed, 28 May 2008 23:16:27 EDT Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao now has a Facebook page. It's not known who set up the profile that now features Wen's official government photo, but it's clear the premier has some fans--with more than 13,000 "supporters" as of Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080527/chinese-premier-shows-up-on-facebook.htm Tue, 27 May 2008 23:30:24 EDT Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080524/google-facebook-in-stalemate-over-social-data.htm Sat, 24 May 2008 00:01:13 EDT Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy. First, it must contend with Facebook, the No. 2 online hangout behind MySpace. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/54259-facebook-facelift.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080524/google-facebook-in-stalemate-over-social-data.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080524/google-facebook-in-stalemate-over-social-data.htm Sat, 24 May 2008 07:55:50 EDT Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080523/google-facebook-in-stalemate-over-social-data.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 14:23:17 EDT Having nearly tripled its audience and added about 20,000 new applications over the past year, Facebook Inc.'s popular online hangout is about to undergo a housecleaning. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/51934-facebook-facelift.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080521/facebook-preparing-for-redesign-to-clear-clutter.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080521/facebook-preparing-for-redesign-to-clear-clutter.htm Wed, 21 May 2008 18:45:18 EDT Comcast Corp. said that it reached an agreement to Plaxo Inc., which operates an online address book and a social network called Pulse and provided the basis for other popular social networking sites, including Facebook and Friendster. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/comcast-social-networking-plaxo-facebook-friendster.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 14:10:07 EDT Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications to other Web sites. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/facebook-to-let-users-carry-profiles-with-them.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 19:30:53 EDT The popular online social hangout Facebook says it's setting up a new system that will allow its 70 million users to take their personal profiles with them as they surf other Web sites. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/facebook-to-let-users-carry-profile-with-them.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 16:56:45 EDT The Internet's most popular social networking site MySpace will soon allow their members to share their public profile information on other online services. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44919-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/myspace-longer-quot-isolated-island-quot-online-users-share-data.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/myspace-longer-quot-isolated-island-quot-online-users-share-data.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 17:44:41 EDT Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44849-facebook.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/facebook-states-set-bullying-predator-safeguards.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/facebook-states-set-bullying-predator-safeguards.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 13:05:37 EDT