With the Friday release of Mafia Wars Bangkok looming, we were pleased when Zynga extended a few early-access passes to preview the game.  Mafia Wars, one of the most popular applications for Facebook at 25,000,000 MAU, has been a success for Zynga ever since it's release.  The mafia genre as a whole was one of [...]

Only months after new privacy settings were implemented as a result of a new privacy agreement with Canada, the Canada Privacy Commissioner has once again launched a Facebook probe. The new investigation revolves around the privacy transition tool that defaulted a number of users' privacy settings to public in many instances. Last time [...]

While testing out Google Reader's new feature for following changes to any website, I realized that many Facebook Pages were already accessible in an RSS format. While the feeds were previously accessible via any web browser, it appears that access has now been restricted just to feed readers. If you want to make [...]

Joe Wilson, a Congressman from South Carolina, has decided to deliver a live response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address on Wednesday via Facebook. The Republican has opted for Facebook over Youtube – which was the video messaging platform of choice for campaign marketing during the 2008 Presidential elections. Joe Wilson, became infamous [...]

F-Secure has suggested that Facebook's new reply-by-email feature may be exploitable.  The press release explains that malicious users can respond to any thread on Facebook as long as they have the proper thread email address.  The full explanation is this as follows. When there is a posted item or status update available on Facebook, and a [...]