As expected, Facebook has launched the redesigned Facebook home page this afternoon. Here’s how it looks: A few thoughts and first impressions: The default “filter” is “News Feed,” which appears to be all shared items by friends. You can filter your stream by network, p...

There’s been a lot of news about various security challenges Facebook has been fighting recently to protect site integrity, so here’s the latest on all fronts. 1. New Koobface worm variant Back in August of last year, the “Koobface” worm spread throughout Facebook, tricking u...

Until recently, owners of Facebook groups had to email Facebook customer support in order to change their Group’s name. However, Facebook announced today that Group owners can now change Group names any time. This change will certainly decrease the amount of customer service Facebook had to de...

Check out the latest news & insights this week from Inside Social Games: iMafia’s Charles Ju: How We Launched a Social Game on the iPhone Top 25 Facebook Games for Febuary 2009 Top 25 MySpace Games for Febuary 2009 Hi5 Launching Integrated Social Flash Games Today Is the iPhone a Social Gaming...

Justin E. H. Smith It is well known among historians of the Soviet Union that, early in his reign, Joseph Stalin rejected Marx and Lenin's strongly internationalist variety of socialism, in favor of the more limited project of building real socialism within one state, while at the same time prom...

Justin E. H. Smith How much longer will it remain possible to elide outrage against the Israeli siege of Gaza with support for Hamas?  How far can the semantic band linking these two be stretched before it simply snaps? And wouldn't it be useful if there were a concerted effort on the part...

I’ve been finding alot of uses for SEO lately in the local business arena.  So many small business owners are trying to supplement their marketing efforts by moving online, and many of these owners understand that online search is ‘where it’s at’. So, because I’m a nic...

Back in November, Facebook announced an update to its platform terms of service with respect to alcohol advertising that allowed developers to place ads for alcoholic beverages for the first time - as long as they used Facebook’s Demographic Restrictions functionality to prevent access to alco...

Check out the latest news & insights this week from Inside Social Games: Social Games Debut on Yahoo’s Application Platform - This week, Yahoo announced a major release of its open Yahoo Application Platform, including app integration with My Yahoo and Yahoo Mail. Major social game develop...

Despite all the speculation in the marketplace, Facebook is still hiring - especially in engineering. The company is growing out multiple groups in its engineering team, ranging from mobile platforms to social search to powering important front-end features like the News Feed. If you’re intere...