Facebook Desktop 1 Facebook Desktop allows you to receive notifications with new wall posts, messages, friend requests, and pokes straight from your desktop. Requires .NET Framework 2.0, (463.7K download)
The founder of the internet site Facebook will be in court this week defending an allegation of stealing the idea from three former fellow Harvard students. Mark Zuckerberg, 23, has been hailed as "the next Steve Jobs", the innovative creator of Apple, and his social networking site as the next Google. But, according to his three accusers, who went on to launch a similar but significantly less successful site, Mr Zuckerberg allegedly cut them out of their own idea after they recruited him to work on it.
When Did Facebook Replace E-mail? Okay, we're not quite there yet but it feels like we're heading in that direction. E-mail was the original "killer app" of the Internet. It was the one service that everybody online had since you got issued an e-mail address as soon as you signed up with an ISP or registered at a college. If you were looking for a bit more permanence, you got a Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail or Gmail account. Even though these services are web-based, they were really about e-mail, not web. And not only did everybody have e-mail but it was the one thing online, possibly challenged only by Google, that everybody used as well. (In fact, the only sites rated higher than Google on Alexa today are MSN and Yahoo - mainly on the strength of the traffic their e-mail systems bring in.)
The most popular application is iLike, which allows you to add streaming music and music videos to your profiles. iLike also can alert you to when their phat artists go on tour, or who else is planning to go to the concerts.
Facebook has been getting a lot of UK press of late, from consideration of how much it is worth, to privacy issues, universities getting annoyed at students using it to criticize staff, being censored by organizations frightened of it, and the musings of BBC journalists about whether people are too old to Facebook.
New Facebook Application! Try the new Photobucket Postcards for Facebook. Send a pic, video or slideshow along with a friendly greeting to your Facebook friends. To get the app, click here.
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends. You can upload photos or publish notes get the latest news from your friends post videos on your profile tag your friends use privacy settings to control who sees your info join a network to see people who live, study, or work around you... And it's free...