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Facebook is big. Really big. Here’s some numbers to add perspective to the amount of data they process and store

You know Facebook is big. Really big. Now, here’s some numbers to add perspective to the amount of data they process and store. 500+ terabytes of new data is added every single day. Users click the ‘Like’ button 2,700,000,000 times per day. More than 300 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day. Think about [...]

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With a new CEO, what does Yahoo! have in its future. Bonus: Did you notice the Yahoo! integration in iOS 6?

Yahoo isn’t going to be an easy nut for Marissa mayer to crack. The company needs solid products to bring it on par with competitors. Mayer hopes to hire engineers. She wants to emphasize products rather than media. Maybe Mayer ‘gets it’ and the future of Yahoo is more than closing down Flickr. A picture [...]

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Should you back App.net?

So, you can join a new real-time social service, like Twitter, for $50 a year. The account gives you access to a social stream that will never try to sell advertisements against you. I have 3 Thoughts: Value Caleb Hicks had a great post over on GeekDaily about supporting App.net: So why am I not [...]

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3 Years Later, You Can Finally Delete Your Facebook Pictures

You know you’ve been there. You wake up one morning, get on your computer and groggily log into Facebook and wake up instantly when you see those, well, unglamorous pictures from the night before. Texts From Last Night has made an entire business out of that moment. What happens next is you go to delete the [...]

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Who wins when Twitter is trying to be more like Facebook?

If you use Facebook rather than Twitter you may have missed some announcements made by Twitter that are making the geekiest of us nervous. For you, however, it might be good news. Twitter is telling third party app developers to stop making clients. Most likely, this is to prepare the development community for news that [...]

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Seven MLB Teams’ Facebook Pages Hacked

Unfortunately, the Facebook pages for seven different Major League Baseball teams were hacked this week, and their statuses updated to a variety of funny and offensive messages. The seven teams consisted of the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Miami Marlins, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants and the Washington Nationals. Despite the [...]

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New Facebook Feature To Compete Against Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability

The obvious typo by Gizmodo mixing up Instapaper and Instagram aside (an easy mistake to make), The Verge and iMore have reported that Marco Arment’s Instapaper has a new big competitor: Facebook. Mobile Saving On the mobile app, you simply need to hold your finger down on the post you want to save and a [...]

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Facebook Phone Coming in 2013?

Last week, Bloomberg reported that Facebook is working with HTC Corporation to build its own smartphone. The phone was initially planned to come out later this year but instead will arrive mid-2013. Citing anonymous sources, they also report that Facebook is developing a modified operating system that will be used for the phone. Additionally, they [...]

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Create A Deck Of Cards Using Your Facebook Friends

Now no one will be left out of your blackjack marathons or poker nights with these personalized playing cards. The cards use the same ‘traditional’ layout of a regular 54 count playing deck, but place your Facebook friend in the center of each card. Now your friends can be remembered as the Queen of Hearts, [...]

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Facebook News: Editing Comments and Find Friends Nearby

Facebook has quietly integrated two new features over the last few days into both their mobile and web platforms. The first feature is the long overdue ability to edit comments. It’s really quite surprising that it has taken this long for the “edit” option to be introduced but better late than never. Previously, if you [...]

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