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Facebook Connect for iPhone Will Links Apps to Your Facebook Account

At Facebook’s annual f8 conference this afternoon it was revealed that iPhone app developers will be able to integrate apps with Facebook Connect-in other words, apps will be able to link up to and share data with your Facebook account, so your identity will be consistent and linked across apps through your Facebook account (and…

First Full Facebook App for Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile users have had to look on in envy as people poked and drew penises on their friends’ walls with dedicated apps for BlackBerry and Palm, wistfully hoping that joy could one day be their own. And now it is! Apparently the first full Facebook app for Windows Mobile, FriendMobilizer will let you do…

Internet Party 2: The MySpace Intervention

The original Internet Party was a pretty funny video, but I’d say that the sequel is even tighter in its execution. Watch your favorite websites—almost scarily apt in their personification—tell MySpace that it’s time to stop. The actress playing IMDB is especially brilliant. UPDATE: Autoplaying video tossed after the jump. Sorry about that. Click to…

Buddy Beacon 2.0 Launches Facebook and iPhone Apps, Reaches Multiple Carriers

Buddy Beacon, the friend-finding service so beloved by Helio users, is to widen its circle of friends, as of today. As well as being available on multiple carriers (which means that you and your mates don’t need to share the same mobile provider) version 2.0 includes applications for Facebook and iPhone, which will allow users…

NASA TV Show Reminds People Of Good Old Days

NASA will celebrate its 50th birthday by going on a charm offensive and trying to remind you that it can still be really, really cool. At least, that’s the impression given by the announcement of a new half-hour series, NASA 360, that aims to show how the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has made the…

10 Worst Futures Of 2007

Which visions of the future made us crave Lasik surgery the most in 2007? Hint: they involved wimpy cyborgs, blah parasites, boring plagues and “time-famine.” Click through to read our picks for the most underwhelming futures of the past year, in both scifi and futurist predictions. (Note: We’re not judging these things on their own…

Rhapsody Makes Facebook App (Because Everyone Else Is Doing It)

Just got word that the Rhapsody music service has a new Facebook app called Music By Rhapsody. You get “access” to 4.5 million songs, and there’s a preference engine that recommends songs for you and your visitors to play from the profile page. The price catch is, you get 25 free songs per month, after…

Facebook has announced that it is opening up its platform code to other social networking sites. Is this going to spell disaster for Google’s unlaunched OpenSocial initiative?

W00t Wins Webster’s Word of the Year, Just Edges Out the Verb Facebook

W00t, that expression of joy invented by gamers way back when Sonic and Tails were special friends, has been given the accolade of word of the year by Webster’s dictionary. The word, which beat the verb “to facebook” has an uncertain providence: while some people think it is an acronym for “We own the other…

Afternoon News: I Hate Vivid, I Like BudCase, Facebook Allegedly Breakin’ the Law and More

• Vivid Video is suing PornoTube over copyright infringement. I never thought I’d say this, but I hate you, Vivid Video. [Ars Technica] • Facebook Beacon isn’t only invasive and potentially embarassing, it may also be illegal. [Boing Boing] • The BudCase stores your ear buds on your keychain. I need this, and for $15,…

Web 2.0 T-Shirt Tells Us All Whether You Facebook Your Life Away

The latest addition to the chic geek’s wardrobe has got to be this web 2.0 T-shirt. The classy bit of kit contains a list of 79 social networking sites, all followed by tick boxes. Tick the ones you belong to and wear. By adorning your scrawny chest with this garment outdoors, you are able to…

Dumb Crooks Drop Clues In MySpace, Facebook, Second Life

Turns out, it’s a dumb idea to post “I just killed two cops” on your MySpace page. That’s what some idiot did, and learned the hard way that cops are rediscovering their home computers, and hitting MySpace, Facebook and even Second Life in search of clues. Sure, there have always been the badge-wearing nerds at…

Everybody wants a piece. Microsoft just plopped down $240 million to keep Facebook afloat and score exclusive advertising. But that $240 million is actually small change—just 2% total share—since Facebook is now worth $15 billion. [valleywag and adage]

RIM Launches Facebook App for BlackBerries

Always working to meet the needs of their bleary eyed, raw-thumbed customers, RIM’s making it easier for power traders and venture capitalists to poke each other right from their BlackBerries. The new Facebook app, available later today from Facebook or RIM only for T-Mobile customers for now [Update: People with other providers are saying it…

Facebook Vs. MySpace is Apple Vs. Sony?

After word that Apple and Facebook may be teaming up for advanced services and distribution, now we hear that MySpace is partnering with Sony BMG. The agreement will include Sony sharing their IP like music videos, audio and other miscellaneous content with MySpace users through artists’ MySpace pages. In return, MySpace will share advertising revenue…

Facebook and iTunes Teaming Up?

To fight off the evil empire that is MySpace, tiny entities Facebook and iTunes may be teaming up to bring a musical component to Facebook’s offerings (while offering Apple another venue to sell their music). According to the unconfirmed rumblings, Facebook is working on expanding their interface. Musical artists will now have special pages with…

Facebook Picks an iPod

After weighing all of the GB options and touchscreens versus scroll wheels, we’re still not completely sure which iPod or iPhone to get yet, but those profile-happy kids over at Facebook seem to know. With a commanding 31% of the votes the iPod touch is the victor this time around. Although that doesn’t tell you…

A-Space, MySpace for Feds

What do the the United States’ most classified, undercover agents need to do their job better? A little social networking. In order to better share information between various areas of U.S. intelligence, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is setting up a network called A-Space. A-Space is a social community ala Facebook that…

Bluetooth/Facebook Nodes Take Even More Human Interaction Out of Meeting People

Some scientists at Bath University in the UK have come up with an interesting albeit only marginally useful new way of making friends via Facebook. Rather than having to go through the process of, you know, meeting people and talking to them, it instead basically gathers the info of people who’ve been in the same…

Facebook’s on the iPhone

It also works in regular browsers if you want to cut down the noise level. Or you could just, you know, poke your eyes out with a stick. [Facebook] Update: New screencap straight from Chen’s iPhone.