There is no denying that Facebook is an incredibly powerful Internet tool in this day and age. These (attractively) compiled stats definitively prove that Facebook is a force to be reckoned with, and probably means that using the popular social network for marketing and information gathering will increase even further. After the jump, check out all the stats that were compiled about Facebook users last year.
GameStop’s social media publisher, Jolt Online, has released Playboy Party (Beta) on Facebook. I doubted there would be any animated avatar sexiness going on, but it’s out there now. With just looking at the screenshots, it just seems like a Sims-type of game. Create a party house, and have the biggest virtual party you can have.
I expect to see the demographics of this game to be 90% men. Full press release past the break.
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The Social Network has been described, almost dismissively, as the Facebook Movie with that awesome choral Creep preview. Give it a shot. Unlike Facebook itself, The Social Network has no real flaws. Based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires, Network focuses on programmer Mark Zuckerberg’s rise from too-smart Harvard hacker to two-fisted lawsuit target and CEO of Facebook. Zuckerberg (played keenly by Jesse Eisenberg) opens the movie with his girlfriend Erica (Rooney Mara) sparring with snappy dialogue in a pub and giving us a tour of his abstract but multi-leveled thought processes. This fantastic opening scene sets Zuckerberg’s character up as an accidental ass, a guy with near-Asbergery obliviousness as to his effect on people yet a completely human need to connect with people and to feel like he’s special by being connected to the right people.
For all those people that didn’t enter any of our Twitter contests, here is your last chance to win some E3 swag that we have collected. Instead of giving one thing away each day, we’ll be giving 1 big bag of goodies. What kind of goodies? Go past the break to find out and to learn how to enter. Good luck!
Good news everyone!
We finally got a Facebook page. On this page, we’ll be posting only the good stuff. Only the featured articles or photos or videos. We don’t want to spam our page with all of our links. We’ll just give you the good ones. So, be a fan of ours and click the LIKE button at the top.
Residents of San Diego have been fortunate to have Comic Con right in their back yard for quite some time now. But sadly, the contract that Comic Con has with the city of San Diego is expiring in 2012. Will they renew it? It’s still too early to tell, but it isn’t stopping other cities from making it known that they want to host Comic Con.
Tomorrow night, the boys of South Park become the latest victim of social networking. Yes, they get sucked into the world of Facebook. But Stan won’t be poor Kyle’s friend. The episode is called “You Have 0 Friends” and based on this 20 second clip, it already looks hilarious.
Google announced today the previously rumored social networking features in Gmail with a new product called Google Buzz. It’s obvious that Buzz is a direct answer to Twitter and Facebook. What makes Google an immediate threat to twitter is the leveraging Gmail for the content types allowed and user base it should spread like wild fire. Check out the introduction video after the break. Read On
Straight from a tweet form one of our readers, Mathew has posted screen shots of how the new Facebook is looking like. Personally, I have never been a fan of Facebook’s current layout, but then again, I doubt I could do any better. Past the break are the screenshots of the future of Facebook. After viewing these, I think I’ll be happy with the design. It’s very reminiscent of the iTunes/Mac OSX Finder layout. Simple shortcuts or menus on the left, and everything else happens on the right with a simple search bar at the top.
Good job, Facebook. I look forward to your achievement of keeping productivity down in schools and businesses across the world by 25% or more.
Another week in Tech has flown by as we head into December and the inevitable Christmas rush. This week we’ve had the good, the bad and the down-right ugly rear their heads in the world of consumer technology.
In a break from tradition we’ll start with the bad. Virgin Media announced this week that it would be snooping into 40% of it’s customers traffic using a technology called CView, which conducts Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in an effort to determine the rate of music piracy across it’s network. Yes that’s right, Virgin is going to examine everything that goes to and from your computer if you happen to be in the lucky 40%. What does this really mean? Well if you’re pirating music across an unencrypted network like BitTorrent, VM will know and what they’ll do about it is unknown. Virgin are set to launch a music service in conjunction with Universal and their official line is that they want to gauge piracy levels. I don’t know about you, but piracy or not, I don’t want people snooping at everything I do or send across the Internet including email, IM, Waves and surfing. Maybe it’s time to protect yourself by changing providers or using a SSL tunnel to a proxy you trust. Read On
