We recently heard about “w00t” being chosen the word of the year by Merriam-Webster. Now “Facebook” has been added to the Collins English Dictionary.
This has been added both as a noun meaning “a popular social networking web site” and a verb that means to search someone’s profile. In fact the Collins guys are so impresed [...]

We all use Facebook for socializing, interacting with friends/colleagues, expressing our opinions on groups/forums etc, but pretty much all these activities are for fun and leisure. In fact, it’s common for people to brand Facebook as a “fun” site. However, we engage in a lot of similar stuff at work as well, albeit in slightly [...]

MoveOn.org’s campaign against Facebook’s Beacon program is gathering momentum. The number of users who have joined MoveOn’s Facebook : stop invading my privacy group has been steadily increasing over the last few days. There are many blogs/sites as well which have come out in favor of MoveOn’s campaign.
Facebook’s Beacon is way for Facebook users [...]

Looking around on the web, it seems the biggest hurdle that people face while writing a Facebook application in java is getting the authentication piece to work. There are some blogs where the solutions have been posted, and that would work. However, I noticed that they recommend using login servlet url as the callback [...]

I recently tried to get my hands dirty with Facebook application development platform. I know there are a bunch of resources available on the web to help you in the process, but when I was trying get my tiny app to work, I realized there were a few things which aren’t explained too well on [...]