After unconfirmed reports on the pending deal, Hot Potato, a New York-based startup that specializes in social activity updates, announced today that it has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed amount. The company will be shutting down operations within a month.
A new scam offering free Justin Bieber concert tickets is spreading virally through the status updates of Facebook users.
You can’t block CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. Try it. You’ll get an error message that says, “General Block failed error: Block failed.”
Facebook Chat is now down for maintenance. The feature was presumably disabled following a report that exposed a Facebook security bug that allowed users to access and view friends’ live chats, friend requests and friends in common.
This week marks the launch of Facebook Chat—a new way for you to communicate with your friends in real-time. The Wall and Inbox have been the primary ways to communicate, but when more immediacy is necessary—for example when making plans for lunch in half an hour or arguing over a foul call in the NCAA tournament—they might not be enough. Chat aims to fill this gap.
As expected, Facebook announced that they will be launching Facebook Chat this week. The announcement, made via a post on The Facebook Blog, says that the rollout will be slow, but, unlike MySpaceIM, there won’t be anything for you to install when it arrives in your profile – you’ll just have a new “Chat Bar” at the bottom of your browser. On the one hand, Facebook needed to launch chat in order to compete with the News Corp giant, but on the other, we have to wonder, do we need another IM?
Last month, Facebook rolled out Facebook chat to its entire network of users. Now, you can chat with all your Facebook friends without adding yet another Facebook app. However, we all know that next generation apps won’t be pushed around by the browser and we don’t think that Facebook chat is an exception to this theory. So here are a few ways to use Facebook chat outside of Facebook.
A lot of people like to delete their chat history after chatting. This keeps other people from reading what they’ve written. If you want to delete your chat history after chatting just click on the “Clear Chat History” link found at the top of the chat window.
Yes, you can use smileys and emoticons in your Facebook Chat messages. Here are a few of the ones you can use:
Some people like to have a sound play every time they get a new message on Facebook Chat, or any other IM or email program for that matter. Some don’t want their computer making noises all day long. This is certainly a personal choice and one that Facebook Chat lets you have.
