Facebook News Summary – Issue #8 28 February 2008

Sorry this issue is a little late.

Facebook Cracks Down on Apps But Opens Arms to Flash

Facebook has finally given you the option to permanently block an application and stop receiving vampire, texas hold-em, etc, etc requests continuously. This is a great news for users, not so great for app developers who rely almost entirely on the viral way in which it has worked to date. One top of this, Facebook has restricted the number of invites you can send out to your friends, further reducing the viral capability. Facebook has however announced that you can start putting Flash content into your Facebook Pages (the business version of a profile). This is good news.

TheUADA

TheUADA is supposed to provide Facebook developers a united front to Facebook and advertisers, offering to broker deals and try to create standard rates for advertising and sponsorship. Techcrunch takes an interesting look at the company behind it.

Facebook for Auditors

This chap got a nasty shock when was he audited by the tax department and they had been tracking his activity via social networking sites.
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German Facebook Ready to Launch?

http://facebook.de/ says We’re upgrading. Germany is the second largest population Second Life. Will they take to Facebook in the same way?

Facebook is Getting a Facelift

New tabbed Profile screen coming soon. Get a sneak peak at the designs.

Help This Guys Achieve His Dream…

Of inducing a massive coronary. Join this guy’s Facebook Group and if he reaches 100,000 people he promises to eat all 12 McDonald’s value meals in one sitting. It is good to have personal goals.

3 Years of Jail Time for a face Facebook Profile

What the…this guy got arrested for setting up a fake profile of the King’s brother in Morocco. It seems Moroccan judges take this sort of thing very seriously as this prankster has now been sentenced to three years in prison!
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Videos – Facebook Stalker and Infomercials

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