Posts tagged with ‘facebook’

Rumor: Facebook in talks to buy Opera

A couple months ago, when Facebook bought Instagram, they said they were not going into the acquisitions business like so many other large companies, but that Instagram was just a good fit (probably because FB was already working on Facebook Camera and didn’t want to get sued for blatantly ripping off Instagram). But now that they’ve got billions extra in cash from their IPO, Facebook may be hungry more more. And that more may be Opera.

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Evil genius makes ad-replacing Facebook plugin that nets him over $250k in just two weeks

Some of you are quite familiar with AdBlock, a browser plug-in that removes banner ads from websites. Well someone took that idea to the next, incredibly profitable level— a plug-in that replaces ads with ads connected to a single Google AdSense account, so that every ad you see is generating revenue for one guy, regardless of where you surf. And the genius part is that for now, this appears to be totally legal.

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Facebook stock goes public, aims to be the first trillion dollar company

To much fanfare, Facebook’s IPO hit the stock market this morning, quickly raising over a billion dollars in early trading. But Facebook’s goals are much larger than just a mere billion. Their ultimate goal is to become the world’s first trillion dollar company. But just because “tri” comes after “bi” doesn’t mean that achieving the trillion dollar mark will be easy. It’s a long way from here to there.

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Facebook now has its own app store. Oh yay.

Apple’s doing it. Google’s doing it. Amazon’s doing it. Valve has been doing it for a while and Microsoft wants to do it. Everyone’s got an app store these days, so why not Facebook? Oh I don’t know… because Facebook games and apps are the bane of internet existence? But hey, here they are, introducing their very own app store.

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Facebook’s life-saving new feature allows you to share that you’re an organ donor. Actually sharing organs via Facebook soon to come.

For the last couple days, Mark Zuckerberg has been talking about an awesome new life-saving feature coming soon to Facebook. So what is it? Well… you can now share with the world on your timeline that you’re an organ donor.

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Idiot siphons gas from a cop car, posts pics on Facebook. Guess what happens next?

If you’re going to be so stupid as to siphon gas from a cop car, don’t compound the problem by then having your girlfriend take a photo of the crime that you’re just going to post on Facebook.

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So if you haven’t heard, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion

Unlike Google, Microsoft and Apple, Facebook isn’t really that big on acquisitions. They’ve made almost none for a company of their value, choosing to instead focus on their one core thing. So when Facebook announced they had bought Instagram for a whopping $1 billion, it was a bit of a surprise. Mark Zuckerberg wanted to note however, that this doesn’t mean they’re going to start buying people up.

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Glitchr is the Facebook page the breaks Facebook. Like.

Of all the Facebook fan pages out there, none is quite like Glitchr. Glitchr is a collection of hacks and tricks that push the limits of what can be confined to the Facebook format. The results range from duplicated chat feeds to layout-breaking collections of pronunciation marks. It’s fun, it’s sort of funny and it might be the perfect thing to ‘like’ on someone else’s Facebook wall to make them think someone broke the interwebs.

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Friends don’t let friends code in plain HTML, even if it is their coming out party.

Coming out of the closet is an exciting, nerve-wracking experience for many. It means hopefully finally being comfortable and honest around friends and family and it can mean finally being comfortable with one’s self. But for this guy, coming out on Facebook not only meant congratulations, but an opportunity for his geeky friends to rag on him about his shitty website.

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US Senators want a ruling on whether employers asking for Facebook passwords is legal

Last week, we told you about a disturbing trend of employers asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords so they could spy on all the stuff that person purposely didn’t have public. Outrage ensued, Facebook responded, saying that employers should knock it off and now the US Senate is looking into the legality of such practices.

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Daily Discussion: Help me pick an IHC Facebook page cover photo

I’m going to be converting the IHC Facebook page to timeline view shortly, but I’m stumped as to what to use for the cover photo. Any suggestions are welcome, post your pics below. I’ve got a picture up there now, but I’d love to swap it out on a regular basis with whatever you guys can find.